Jiangsu Provincial Center Technology and Engineering for Logistics
The Jiangsu Provincial Center Technology and Engineering for Logistics is the only provincial level engineering center for logistics and supply chain management in Jiangsu Province. Affiliated to School of Management and Engineering of NJU, the center is founded by the government of Jiangsu Province, aimed at turning research achievements into realistic productivity through the mechanism reform of technological innovation and the construction of public research platform.
Aim
Oriented by logistics and supply chain management technology, the center is to do continuing engineering research and systematic integration in marketable, applicable technological achievements that have been made in these fields, to develop generic technology, core technology and service platform that have prospect in industrial production and to enhance their industrial application in order to make the best use of generic technology socially and economically.
Management Mode
With an advanced management mode of international research institute, The engineering center is in the charge of Committee of Technology and Management made up of logistics experts form fields of logistics and supply chain management and information technology, and from research institutes, related departments of the government and renowned logistics enterprises. The committee is responsible for setting strategic goals, research orientation and management mode. Due to the leadership of the committee, the center has made remarkable achievements within a short time.
Achievements
School of Engineering and Management of NJU, to which the engineering center affiliated, is a national leading point of master in logistics, and has been authorized by the Royal Institute of Logistics and Transport of Great Britain to jointly cultivate international managers in logistics. The school is devoted to training high-level logistics and management engineering professionals with both theoretical and practical quality. Through conducting the industrial-academic collaboration, the engineering center has signed strategic cooperation pacts with many big enterprises such as Jiangsu Division of China Mobile, Hewlett Packard, and Hong Kong Eprotel. The center also does logistics planning and design, technology development, and personnel training for some enterprises like Five-star Electric Equipment Company of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medicine Limited Liability Company, Nanjing Steel Company and Yangtze Oil and Chemical Company, and has made noticeable achievements.
The center has also achieved good results in consultation service in logistics and engineering management, and in informalization and automation of various enterprises. One is the intelligent big data analysis and prediction system in logistics developed by Intelligent Logistics Office of NJU, which can analyze multi-dynamic logistics activities, and has turned out many analyzing approaches and optimum decision-making ways in booking, delivering and pricing goods, providing scientific judgement for accurate decision-making. By predicting logistics needs of goods with different characteristics from different dimensions and terms, the center has developed many modes and approaches to predict the development tendency of the goods. Combining the reality of the company and the logistics system of world-class enterprises, the center has completed the planning and design of a “world-class logistics system” for Electric Power Company of Jiangsu Province. The center has finished the planning and design of an intelligent comprehensive service platform for Xinrui New Energy Company of Jiangsu Province.
Research results in logistics and management systems have been achieved by the center for many other enterprises and institutions, and they will not all be listed here.
Personnel Training
The engineering center will actively conduct national and international cooperation and communication of diverse forms. An open, dynamic mechanism and favorable conditions will be created to attract and absorb domestic and international researchers, along with their previous research achievements, to the center to do engineering research and experiments. The center welcomes researchers from our partner enterprises and other companies from which the center takes core research results. The center attaches importance to absorbing and cultivating youth researchers and accomplished ones with overseas research experience.
