From June 16th to 17th, the 5th InternationalWorkshop On Supply Chain Management was held in SMU. Vice-president Yan Wei ofSMU and more than 100 experts and scholars from other universities participatedin the opening ceremony.
Prof. Yan Wei delivered a welcome speech andintroduced SMU’s disciplinary construction, scientific research and talentstraining on the fields of supply chain management, shipping logistics, freetrade zone and so on. Yan said, “Shipping, logistics and ocean are threecharacteristic research fields of SMU, and they dovetails well with China’spolicy: the Belt and Road Initiative. The construction of ShanghaiInternational Shipping Service Center and development of Shanghai TechnologyInnovation Center all provide unprecedented opportunities of development forSMU.” Yan hoped that professors and scholars from SMU could focus on theoreticalresearch as well as realistic issues, and took active part in exchange andcooperation both at home and abroad in the field of supply chain management.
Professor Gilbert from University of Texas atAustin, professor Yan Yi from Zhejiang University, professor Chen Gongtao fromNational University of Singapore, professor Jiang Baojun from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, professor Cai Gangshu from Santa Clara University,professor Tong Shilu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and many distinguishedalumni had keynote Speeches concerning with many academic and realisticfrontier problems and had deep discussions on these questions. This workshopalso attracted a lot of doctoral and postgraduate students.
IWSCM was aimed at promoting academic exchanges,strengthening the link between domestic and foreign academic circle andfacilitating researches on supply chain management.
