Reporter: Tsan-Ming Choi (Jason)

　　Time: February 28, 2019 (Thursday) 17:00

　　Venue: 418, Main Building, Zhongguancun Campus

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　　Speaker Profile:

　　Tsan-Ming Choi (Jason) is a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and has long been involved in fashion retailing and research in supply chain and marketing. In the past ten years, Professor Tsan-Ming Choi (Jason) has actively participated in various research projects on supply chain management and apparel business operation optimization, writing/editing 16 research manuals, and published more than 170 papers in high-end journals listed in Web of Science (eg Transportation Research–Part E, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, Automatica, EJOR, IJPE, IJPR, Omega, etc., many of which were highly cited in Web of Science (“ Ranked first 1%"). Professor Tsan-Ming Choi (Jason) is currently co-editor of Transportation Research–Part E, senior editor of Production and Operations Management and Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and vice president of Cybernetics–Systems and Information Sciences, Decision Sciences, IEEE, guest editor at the Engineering Management and International Journal of Production Economics, a member of the editorial board of INFORMS Service Science, International Journal of Production Research, and International Transactions in Operational Research. Professor Tsan-Ming Choi (Jason) was a member of the executive committee of professional organizations such as IEEE-SMC (HK) and POMS (HK). He won the Principal's Outstanding Performance Award (the most prestigious award at the school level) in 2008 and won the Best Associate Editor Award from IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for two consecutive years (2013 and 2014) and was awarded in 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award from the School of Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

　　Introduction:

　　SoS theory is an important topic in modern systems engineering management. Previous research has focused on using it to explore large physical systems, with relatively few applications for commercial operations. This paper discusses the sustainable management of the apparel supply chain through SoS theory and multi-method method. Specifically, we first investigate and propose that the fashion supply chain is a qualified SoS. Then we propose the key SoS principles for building a sustainable fashion supply chain. We analyze and study the value of these principles by deriving the Expectations of SoS Principles (EVSOS). In particular, we highlight the number of market observations and how textile and product residues associated with losses and benefits affect the expectations of the SoS principles. We further construct a two-stage framework and an action matrix for sustainable fashion supply chain management. Finally, a case study is conducted on public data based on Swedish fashion business giant H&M.