Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Columbia University 1991
  • M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) 1984
  • B.S., Beijing University (China) 1982
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Multi-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems: Performance Optimization and Supply Chain Applications awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2005
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization. Edited by J Song and D Yao. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

  • Book Sections

    • Song, J. "Supply chain operations: assemble-to-order systems." In Supply Chain Management, edited by S Graves and T De Kok. 2003. (Chapter)

  • Journal Articles

    • Shang, Y, Dunson, D, and Song, J-S. "Exploiting Big Data in Logistics Risk Assessment via Bayesian Nonparametrics." Operations Research 65, no. 6 (December 2017): 1574-1588.  Full Text
    • Ang, M, Sigman, K, Song, J-S, and Zhang, H. "Closed-Form Approximations for Optimal ( r , q ) and ( S , T ) Policies in a Parallel Processing Environment." Operations Research 65, no. 5 (October 2017): 1414-1428.  Full Text
    • Chen, L, Song, J-S, and Zhang, Y. "Serial Inventory Systems with Markov-Modulated Demand: Derivative Bounds, Asymptotic Analysis, and Insights." Operations Research 65, no. 5 (October 2017): 1231-1249.  Full Text
    • Chen, J, Hu, Q, and Song, J-S. "Supply Chain Models with Mutual Commitments and Implications for Social Responsibility." Production and Operations Management 26, no. 7 (July 2017): 1268-1283.  Full Text
    • Cheung, KL, Song, J-S, and Zhang, Y. "Cost reduction through operations reversal." European Journal of Operational Research 259, no. 1 (May 2017): 100-112.  Full Text
    • Chen, J, Hu, Q, and Song, J-S. "Effect of partial cross ownership on supply chain performance." European Journal of Operational Research 258, no. 2 (April 2017): 525-536.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, Xiao, L, Zhang, H, and Zipkin, P. "Optimal Policies for a Dual-Sourcing Inventory Problem with Endogenous Stochastic Lead Times." Operations Research 65, no. 2 (April 2017): 379-395.  Full Text
    • Liu, F, and Song, J-S. "Coordinating a Semi-Centralized Global Production Network Through Different Levels of Headquarters Involvement." Production and Operations Management 26, no. 2 (February 2017): 305-319.  Full Text
    • Huang, L, Song, J-S, and Tong, J. "Supply Chain Planning for Random Demand Surges: Reactive Capacity and Safety Stock." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 4 (October 2016): 509-524.  Full Text
    • Liu, F, Song, J-S, and Tong, JD. "Building Supply Chain Resilience through Virtual Stockpile Pooling." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 10 (October 2016): 1745-1762.  Full Text
    • Li, Q, Guo, P, Li, C-L, and Song, J-S. "Equilibrium Joining Strategies and Optimal Control of a Make-to-Stock Queue." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1513-1527.  Full Text
    • Lu, L, Song, J-S, and Zhang, H. "Optimal and asymptotically optimal policies for assemble-to-order n- and W-systems." Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 62, no. 8 (December 2015): 617-645.  Full Text
    • Ang, M, Song, J-S, Wang, M, and Zhang, H. "On properties of discrete (r, q) and (s, T) inventory systems." European Journal of Operational Research (2013).  Full Text
    • Ang, M, Song, J-S, Wang, M, and Zhang, H. "On properties of discrete (r, q) and (s, T) inventory systems." European Journal of Operational Research 229, no. 1 (2013): 95-105.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "Supply streams." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 15, no. 3 (2013): 444-457.  Full Text
    • Liu, F, and Song, J-S. "Good and bad news about the 4S1 T 5 policy." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 14, no. 1 (2012): 42-49.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Newsvendor problems with sequentially revealed demand information." Naval Research Logistics 59, no. 8 (2012): 601-612.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "An approximation for the inverse first passage time problem." Advances in Applied Probability 43, no. 1 (2011): 264-275.  Full Text
    • Guo, P, Song, J-S, and Wang, Y. "Outsourcing structures and information flow in a three-tier supply chain." International Journal of Production Economics 128, no. 1 (2010): 175-187.  Full Text
    • Lu, Y, Song, J-S, and Zhao, Y. "No-Holdback allocation rules for continuous-time assemble-to-order systems." Operations Research 58, no. 3 (2010): 691-705.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Song, J-S, Zhang, H, Hou, Y, and Wang, M. "The effect of lead time and demand uncertainties in (r, q) inventory systems." Operations Research 58, no. 1 (2010): 68-80.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Bernstein, F, Song, J-S, and Zheng, X. "Free riding in a multi-channel supply chain." Naval Research Logistics 56, no. 8 (2009): 745-765.  Full Text
    • Decroix, GA, Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Managing an assemble-to-order system with returns." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 11, no. 1 (2009): 144-159.  Full Text
    • Shang, KH, Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Coordination mechanisms in decentralized serial inventory systems with batch ordering." Management Science 55, no. 4 (2009): 685-695.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Zhao, Y. "The value of component commonality in a dynamic inventory system with lead times." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 11, no. 3 (2009): 493-508.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "Inventories with multiple supply sources and networks of queues with overflow bypasses." Management Science 55, no. 3 (2009): 362-372.  Full Text
    • Bernstein, F, Song, J-S, and Zheng, X. ""Bricks-and-mortar" vs. "clicks-and-mortar": An equilibrium analysis." European Journal of Operational Research 187, no. 3 (2008): 671-690.  Full Text
    • Lu, X, Song, J-S, and Zhu, K. "Analysis of perishable-inventory systems with censored demand data." Operations Research 56, no. 4 (2008): 1034-1038.  Full Text
    • Lu, X, Song, J-S, and Regan, A. "Rebate, returns and price protection policies in channel coordination." IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers) 39, no. 2 (2007): 111-124.  Full Text
    • Shang, KH, and Song, J-S. "Serial supply chains with economies of scale: Bounds and approximations." Operations Research 55, no. 5 (2007): 843-853.  Full Text
    • Song, J, and Zhao, Y. "Lead times, component costs and allocation rules in the value of component commonality." ICMSEM: Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (2007): 359-369.
    • Lu, X, Song, J-S, and Regan, A. "Inventory planning with forecast updates: Approximate solutions and cost error bounds." Operations Research 54, no. 6 (2006): 1079-1097.  Full Text
    • Shang, KH, and Song, J-S. "A closed-form approximation for serial inventory systems and its application to system design." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 8, no. 4 (2006): 394-406.  Full Text
    • DeCroix, G, Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "A series system with returns: Stationary analysis." Operations Research 53, no. 2 (2005): 350-362.  Full Text
    • Lu, X, Song, J-S, Zhu, K, Ding, X, Bisi, A, and Puterman, ML. "On "the censored newsvendor and the optimal acquisition of information"." Operations Research 53, no. 6 (2005): 1024-1027.  Full Text
    • Lu, Y, Song, J-S, and Yao, DD. "Backorder minimization in multiproduct assemble-to-order systems." IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers) 37, no. 8 (2005): 763-774.  Full Text
    • Lu, Y, and Song, J-S. "Order-based cost optimization in assemble-to-order systems." Operations Research 53, no. 1 (2005): 151-169.  Full Text
    • Choi, K-S, Dai, JG, and Song, J-S. "On measuring supplier performance under vendor-managed-inventory programs in capacitated supply chains." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 6, no. 1 (2004): 53-72.  Full Text
    • Boyaci, T, Gallego, G, Shang, KH, and Song, J-S. "Erratum: Serial Production/Distribution Systems under Service Constraints (Maufacturing & Service Operations Management)." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 5, no. 4 (2003): 372-374.
    • Dayanik, S, Song, J-S, and Xu, SH. "The Effectiveness of Several Performance Bounds for Capacitated Production, Partial-Order-Service, Assemble-to-Order Systems." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 5, no. 3 (2003): 230-251.
    • Drezner, Z, Scott, C, and Song, J-S. "The central warehouse location problem revisited." IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 14, no. 4 (2003): 321-336.  Full Text
    • Lu, Y, Song, J-S, and Yao, DD. "Order fill rate, leadtime variability, and advance demand information in an assemble-to-order system." Operations Research 51, no. 2 (2003): 292-308.  Full Text
    • Shang, KH, and Song, J-S. "Newsvendor bounds and heuristic for optimal policies in serial supply chains." Management Science 49, no. 5 (2003): 618-638.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "Supply Chain Operations: Assemble-to-Order Systems." Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science 11, no. C (2003): 561-596.  Full Text
    • Song, J-S, and Yao, DD. "Performance analysis and optimization of assemble-to-order systems with random lead times." Operations Research 50, no. 5 (2002): 889-903+918.
    • Song, J-S. "Order-based backorders and their implications in multi-item inventory systems." Management Science 48, no. 4 (2002): 499-516.
    • Chen, F, and Song, J-S. "Optimal policies for multiechelon inventory problems with Markov-modulated demand." Operations Research 49, no. 2 (2001): 226-234.
    • Song, J-S, Yano, CA, and Lerssrisuriya, P. "Contract Assembly: Dealing with Combined Supply Lead Time and Demand Quantity Uncertainty." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 2, no. 3 (2000): 287-296.
    • Song, J-S. "Note on assemble-to-order systems with batch ordering." Management Science 46, no. 5 (2000): 739-743.
    • Song, J-S, Xu, SH, and Liu, B. "Order-fulfillment performance measures in an assemble-to-order system with stochastic leadtimes." Operations Research 47, no. 1 (1999): 131-149.
    • So, KC, and Song, J-S. "Price, delivery time guarantees and capacity selection." European Journal of Operational Research 111, no. 1 (1998): 28-49.
    • Song, J-S. "On the order fill rate in a multi-item, base-stock inventory system." Operations Research 46, no. 6 (1998): 831-845.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Inventory control with information about supply conditions." Management Science 42, no. 10 (1996): 1409-1419.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Evaluation of base-stock policies in multiechelon inventory systems with state-dependent demands. Part II: State-dependent depot policies." Naval Research Logistics 43, no. 3 (1996): 381-396.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "Managing inventory with the prospect of obsolescence." Operations Research 44, no. 1 (1996): 215-222.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, PH. "The joint effect of leadtime variance and lot size in a parallel processing environment." Management Science 42, no. 9 (1996): 1352-1363.
    • Song, J-S. "Understanding the lead-time effects in stochastic inventory systems with discounted costs." Operations Research Letters 15, no. 2 (1994): 85-93.
    • Song, J-S. "Effect of leadtime uncertainty in a simple stochastic inventory model." Management Science 40, no. 5 (1994): 603-613.
    • Song, J-S, and Zipkin, P. "Inventory control in a fluctuating demand environment." Operations Research 41, no. 2 (1993): 351-370.
    • Song, J, and Zipkin, PH. "Evaluation of base‐stock policies in multiechelon inventory systems with state‐dependent demands part I: State‐independent policies." Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 39, no. 5 (January 1, 1992): 715-728.  Full Text
    • Song, J, and Dong, Z. "A Secondary Approach to the Discounted Model in Semi-Markov Decision Processes." Science bulletin 33 (1988): 448-454.
    • Song, J. "Continuous-time Markov Decision Processes with Non-uniformed in Semi-Markov Bounded Transition Rates." Scientia Series A: Mathematical Sciences XXXI (1988): 1281-1291.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • OPERATNS 554F: Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management 2018
  • OPERATNS 554K: Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management 2018
  • BA 991: Selected Topics in Business 2017
  • OPERATNS 827: Global Operations 2016

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