讲座题目：pars-Complexity: A metric for Structural Complexity in the Supply Chain

讲座人：Diego Ruiz-Hernández 博士

主持人：李勇建教授

讲座时间：2025年4月9日9：00

讲座地点：beat365官方最新版A501-2

讲座摘要：

Academics and practitioners have been concerned with the problem of supply chain structural complexity. A form of complexity that originates from strategic and operational choices, and is caused by the proliferation of products, markets, and channels. When out of control, these choices generate hard-to-account-for costs and limit the firm's capacity for generating profits. As companies expand their offerings, complexity infiltrates their internal processes, generating inefficiencies, delays and quality losses that can lead to increasing costs, customer dissatisfaction and, ultimately, failure.

This presentation summarises the work we have conducted conducted, first, to develop a formal definition for what we have named supply chain structural complexity; and then to propose a metric that can provide an accurate measure of structural complexity referred to as pars-complexity. We further present results of the empirical analysis of company data used to establish the empirical validity and practical relevance of the metric. Finally, some potential extensions and alternative interpretations of the metric will be discussed.

讲座人简介：

Diego Ruiz-Hernández is Senior Lecturer in Management Science at Sheffield University Management School and Programme Director of MSc Management. He holds a PhD in Operational Research from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Catalonia, Spain.

He developed his academic career at the following institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1998-2009), Universidad de Navarra (2006-2009), and the University College for Financial Studies (2009 to 2018). Diego has been visiting scholar at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Lancaster in the United Kingdom. He has also worked as visiting visiting lecturer at Kedge Business School and NEOMA Business School, both in France, and has delivered courses for Nankai University.

His research covers, but is not limited to, fields in the areas of mathematical programming, supply chain complexity, discrete and network location, stochastic scheduling and dynamic resource allocation.

Diego has published scientific articles in international journals as Advances in Applied Probability, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications and Transportation Research B, among others.