On November 26, 2022, in order to strengthen academic exchanges between domestic and foreign scholars, the School of Management of Wuhan Textile University, together with the Fashion Supply Chain and Smart Logistics Research Center, successfully held an international academic seminar with the theme of "Smart Logistics and Supply Chain". Due to the impact of the epidemic situation, the seminar was held online and offline. Nine well-known guests from home and abroad were invited to attend the seminar and make theme reports, attracting experts, scholars, teachers and students from many brother universities at home and abroad. All teachers of the School of Management and graduate students of related majors actively participated in the seminar and exchanged ideas.

The opening ceremony of the conference was presided over by Professor Wu Jinfeng, Vice President of the School of Management. Professor Xu Weilin, an academician of the CAE Member and President of Wuhan Textile University, addressed the conference via video. President Xu Weilin, on behalf of the University, extended a warm welcome to the participants from home and abroad, and warmly congratulated the successful opening of the first "International Symposium on Smart Logistics and Supply Chain and Wuhan Textile University Sunshine Forum"; I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to experts and scholars from home and abroad for their long-term concern and support for the development of the University, especially for their guidance and help to the management discipline!

Later, Wu Jinhong, Dean of the School of Management, delivered a speech on behalf of the School of Management, introducing the basic situation of the School of Management to the delegates, especially emphasizing that the School of Management had made full preparations for holding the meeting. He hoped that the teachers and students attending the meeting would cherish the rare opportunity to consult and learn from experts and actively participate in exchanges and discussions.

The meeting was held online and offline simultaneously, and the theme report in the morning was chaired by Professor Li Jianbin, Vice Dean of the School of Management of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The guest of the first report was Professor Liu Zhixin from the University of Michigan Dearborn, and the report was entitled "Scheduling with Present Bias". Professor Liu combines the decision-maker's Present Bias with the scheduling problem, mainly discusses the impact of the current bias on time scheduling, and uses a large number of cases to illustrate the widespread existence of time inconsistency in reality.

Then, Professor Li Yongjian, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Nankai University, gave a report entitled "Supply Chain Management: From Operation to Platform". Professor Li mainly reported on supply chain management and its research challenges, how to innovate supply chain management research from the design of new problems and the application of new methods. Finally, in combination with his team's research work, he introduced the idea and framework of the dual mode research of manufacturing chain+platform.

The two presentations in the second half of the morning were presided over by Professor Yu Niu, director of the Department of Logistics Management of the School of Management. Dr. Huang Rihuan from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) made an achievement report entitled Retail Inventory Sharing in Two Tier Supply Chains:.

Then, the topic of Dr. Hu Chen's report from XJTL Liverpool University was Managing Demand by Upgrade Programs and Markdown Pricing with a Product Rollover. Based on the background of the smartphone industry, Dr. Hu's report studied two demand management strategies in the process of enterprise product upgrading: trade in old products or reduce prices. The dominant conditions of the two strategies are given through model derivation and example analysis.

The three lectures in the afternoon were equally wonderful, which were hosted by Professor Dai Bin from Wuhan University and Dr. Cai Xueyuan from the Logistics Management Department of Wuhan Textile University. First of all, Professor Qin Hu of Huazhong University of Science and Technology introduced his research in the field of intelligent optimization of logistics distribution routes, entitled "Research on the optimization of demand separable vehicle routes". This study relaxed the traditional vehicle routing optimization problem assumption that each customer can only be visited by one vehicle once, and focused on the introduction of heuristic algorithm and accurate algorithm for solving the demand splitting vehicle routing optimization problem.

Then, Professor Chen Zhiyuan of Wuhan University made a report entitled "Research on the hierarchical admission strategy and social distance strategy of three hospitals under the COVID-19 - based on the infectious disease model with limited medical resources" against the background of the COVID-19. This study introduces an infectious disease (SEIR) model considering limited medical resources, and discusses how three hospital admission policies (hierarchical medical system, hybrid medical system and shelter medical system) affect the process of disease transmission and the number of deaths and infections.

Finally, Professor Dong Ciwei from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law presented a report entitled "Research on the Innovation of Blockchain and Supply Chain Management". He first introduced the related concepts of blockchain and their applications in reality, and then focused on the series of research results in the combination of blockchain and finance, sustainable supply chain, sales channel management, etc.

At the closing ceremony after the theme report, President Wu Jinhong made a concluding speech on the international conference. President Wu briefly reviewed the contents of the report of the experts in this seminar, which brought us "new theories, new methods, and new ideas", and again thanked the experts for their wonderful sharing. Finally, he congratulated the International Symposium on Smart Logistics and Supply Chain held by the School of Management of Wuhan Textile University on its complete success.

This time, our school successfully held an international academic seminar with the theme of "smart logistics and supply chain". On the one hand, we built an academic platform for experts and scholars at home and abroad to share cutting-edge theoretical and practical research results of logistics and supply chain, and contributed management wisdom and strength to accelerate the construction of a modern economy in China and promote industrial transformation and upgrading; On the other hand, through the ideological collision and achievements exchange of various scholars, a strong scientific research atmosphere has been created, which has opened a new perspective for the academic research of our teachers and students in related fields, and has a positive role in promoting our scientific research level and academic cooperation.

The first international symposium on smart logistics and supply chain was sponsored by the School of Management of Wuhan Textile University and the Fashion Supply Chain and Smart Logistics Research Center of Wuhan Textile University, aiming to build an academic exchange platform for experts and scholars at home and abroad in the field of logistics and supply chain, and share cutting-edge research achievements in related fields.