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SUMMARY:Qi Lin\, Beihang University
DESCRIPTION: \n\nQi Lin is a 3rd year PhD student from the School of Econom
 ics and\nManagement\, Beihang University and a visiting scholar in the Dec
 ision\nSciences and MIS department since October 2018. Her research areas 
 are\nHealthcare Management and Healthcare Information Exchange.\n\nTitle: 
 Cold Chain Transportation Decision in the Vaccine Supply Chain\n\nAbstract
 : Vaccines are a special kind of drug\, the quality of which is\nhighly se
 nsitive to temperature and directly related to public health.\nRecently\, 
 numerous vaccine accidents have occurred in the world\,\nespecially in dev
 eloping countries\, due to vaccines being exposed to\ninappropriate temper
 atures during their transportation. This paper\nconsiders the vaccine supp
 ly chain including a distributor and a\nretailer (hospital or clinic). The
  distributor decides whether to use\na cold chain to transport the vaccine
 s or not. The retailer performs\nan inspection when receiving the vaccines
 . First\, a basic model is\ndeveloped to study the conditions under which 
 the distributor will\ntransport the vaccines via a cold chain or non-cold 
 chain. Then\, two\ncommon inspection policies (a loose one and a strict on
 e) are\nintroduced into the basic model to explore the impact of the\nreta
 iler’s inspection at the end of transportation on the\ndistributor’s o
 riginal decision. We show that the retailer’s\ninspection influences the
  distributor to choose the cold chain option.\nInterestingly\, we prove th
 at the strict inspection policy is less\neffective than the loose one in t
 his effect. We suggest that the\nretailer’s role in improving the distri
 butor’s non-cold chain\ntransportation behavior should be fully used.\n 
DTSTART:20190426T173000Z
DTEND:20190426T190000Z
LOCATION:Gerri C. LeBow Hall\, 3220 Market Street\, 409\, Philadelphia\, PA
  19104
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