Guest scholar in Math to discuss supply chain management
An overview into key issues of supply chain management will be presented at SUNY Fredonia by Shujian Ma, a visiting scholar from the University of Windsor, on Friday, April 27, at 3 p.m., at 108 Fenton.
Ma, a colleague of Lan Cheng, a Mathematical Sciences professor at SUNY Fredonia, will provide analyses of product flow, information flow and cash flow – the basic activities in a supply chain. He will outline the objectives of purchasing, manufacturing, warehousing and the customer in the supply chain management model. The roles that strategic advantage, globalization and supply chain impacts play in supply chain management will also be explored in detail.
The Supply Chain Operations Reference Model, which assesses how well a supply chain is functioning, will also be introduced in the talk. Future research into supply chain management will conclude the program.
Ma earned his Ph.D. in Management Sciences in 2009, has a master’s in Operations Research and Control Theory and a bachelor’s in Mathematics. He and SUNY Fredonia’s Cheng were classmates at Nanjing Normal University.
