讲座题目： Introduction to circular supply chain 4.0 and low carbon Supply Chain: A case approach

讲座人：Kannan Govindan教授

主持人： 李勇建教授

讲座时间：2023年9月13日（星期三）下午16：00

讲座地点：南开大学商学院B1003

讲座人简介：

 Professor Kannan Govindan is currently a Distinguished Professor with China Institute of FTZ Supply Chain, Shanghai, China and Head of Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering with the Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in ‘Engineering’ for five years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022) by Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. He has published more than 325 international journal articles (with 49500+ citations and an h-index of 115) in leading journals such as Nature, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, European Management Journal, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research. Many of his papers were selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers or 0.1% hot papers and highlighted as the Key Scientific Articles contributing to the excellence in Engineering and Environmental research. He is an executive editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Senior Editor of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Editor of Annals of Operations Research, an area Editor of INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, and was a Guest Editor in journals such as Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operations Research, Computers and OR, Annals of OR, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics. Finally, he is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals. His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management.

讲座摘要：

 Recent globalization and industrialization efforts have pushed many companies to consider innovation efficiency and its effectiveness in achieving sustainability seriously. Industries seek to integrate innovative and digital thinking into the company, resulting in different digitalised innovation theories. This talk will briefly explore how Industry 4.0 technologies will impact the supply chain and circular economy to achieve a transition to digitalised circular economy, low carbon supply chain, and also present results and insights applied to real-world problems.