On the morning of March 12th, Professor Li Ruixue from the Department of Business Administration of Hosei University, Japan was invited to visit the School of Management to give an academic lecture entitled “Horizontal Logistics Collaboration and Innovation in Japanese Enterprises”. Professor Xie Jingci of the Department of Information System and Supply Chain Management presided over the lecture, one of the series of lectures by famous experts of the School.
Focusing on the theme of “Common Logistics in Japan”, Professor Li Ruixue introduced it from five aspects: definition, reasons for implementation, cases, obstacles in practice, and future development. Professor Li pointed out that common logistics is a new model to give full play to the merger effect and specialization advantages of logistics enterprises, and it is also an effective means to tackle practical problems such as labor shortage and low truckload rates. He introduced in detail eight typical cases of common logistics in Japan and one case in Western countries and then explained the innovative move taken by Japanese enterprises in developing common logistics. Trust, benefit distribution, market changes, and others are the reasons for difficulties in smoothly implementing and sustaining common logistics for a long time. He believes that in the future, the type of “physical Internet” for common logistics proposed by Professor Benoit Montreuil from the Georgia Institute of Technology will become an ideal model for development. After the lecture, Professor Li gave detailed answers to the questions raised by the teachers and students and had extensive exchanges with them on topics, such as emergency logistics in Japan.
Li Ruixue is a professor of the Department of Business Administration and dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration of Hosei University in Japan. He has served as a visiting research fellow at St. Anthony’s College of the University of Oxford in the UK, deputy director/director of the Innovation Management Research Institute of Hosei University, lecturer/associate professor at the University of Toyama, visiting research fellow at the Business School of the University of Missouri St.Louis, USA, visiting research fellow at Modern Logistics Research Center in Fudan University, and part-time analyst at Tokyo Logistics Research Institute. Appointed as a visiting professor at Southwest Jiaotong University and Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, he is also the vice president of the Japan Automobile Logistics Research Association and the Building Materials and Residential Equipment Logistics Research Association as well as the editorial board member of several academic journals. Specializing in logistics management, supply chain management, corporate strategy and others, he has published nearly 100 academic papers and eight monographs. Professor Li has won the Outstanding Research Paper Award of the 2nd Kitamura Award of the Japan Port Economics Association, the 1st prize of the 4th Wuhua Book Award of the China Society of Logistics, and the 7th Sumita Logistics Award of the Japan Transport Research Institute.
