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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesSupply Chain Management Area

Prof. Dr. Yingshuai Zhao

Research

Research interests

Behavioral Management Science in Supply Chain Management

Selected publications

  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao. On human decision behavior in multi-echelon inventory management. International Journal of Production Economics, 2015, 161: 116-128.
  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao. How a competing environment influences newsvendor ordering decisions. International Journal of Production Research, 2016, 54(1): 204-214.
  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen. "On learning process of a newsvendor with censored demand information." Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2016, 67: 0. doi:10.1057/jors.2016.18

You can find further publications here.

Presentations at conferences and workshops

  • Yingshuai Zhao, Anna-Lena Sachs, Ulrich Thonemann. Should a Retailer or a Supplier Exercise Effort of Demand Promotion?
    -Behavioral Operations Annual Conference, Cambridge, USA, 2017.
  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao. On the Learning Process of a Newsvendor with Censored Demand Information. Oral presentation.
    -INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2014
    -POMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA, 2014.
  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao. On Human Decision Behavior in Multi-echelon Inventory Management. Oral presentation.
    -International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management, Beijing, China, 2010.
    -Annual Conference of Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in Management Science and Engineering, Beijing, China, 2010.
  • Yingshuai Zhao, Xiaobo Zhao. How Competing Environment Influences Newsvendor's Ordering Decisions.
    -International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management, Shanghai, China, 2014.
    -Invited Seminar Talk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland, 2017.
    -Invited Seminar Talk, Central University of Finance and Economics, China, 2017.

Teaching

Bachelor Level

  • Bachelor Seminar: Supply Chain Management
  • Bachelor Seminar: Behavioral Management Science
  • Supply Chain Management: Selected Methods Scientific Writing Workshop (Bachelor Thesis)

Master Level

  • Master Seminar: Access
  • Master Thesis
  • Scientific Writing Workshop (Master Thesis)

Areas of responsiblity

Organizing brownbag research seminar

CV

Since 2024Professor for Behavioral Operations
Area Supply Chain Management, WiSo Faculty, University of Cologne
Since 2015Assistant Professor,
Area Supply Chain Management, WiSo Faculty, University of Cologne
2009 - 2011Exchange Doctoral Student in Behavioral Operations Management,
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
2008 - 2015Doctoral student in Management Science and Engineering,
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
2004 - 2008Bachelor student in Industrial Engineering,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Beijng Jiaotong University, China