Yun Fong LIM

Research Interests:

1. 1.Supply Chain Management: e-Commerce and Omni-channel Retailing, Warehousing and Fulfillment, Inventory Management, Sustainable Urban Logistics
   
   

2. 2.Workforce Management: Boosting Productivity of Work Teams through Cross-Training, Work-Sharing, and Self-Organization
   

Journal Articles:

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1. 1.How to form storage classes in a unit-load warehouse? Marcus Ang, Yun Fong Lim. Submitted, 2017.
   

2. 2.Performance of cellular bucket brigades with hand-off times, Yun Fong Lim. Production and Operations Management, forthcoming, 2017. (PDF)
   

3. 3.Optimizing (s, S) policies for multi-period inventory models with demand distribution uncertainty: Robust dynamic programming approaches, Ruozhen Qiu, Minghe Sun, Yun Fong Lim. European Journal of Operational Research, 261(3), 880-892, 2017. (PDF) (See supplemental materials.)
   

4. 4.Inventory management based on target-oriented robust optimization, Yun Fong Lim, Chen Wang. Management Science, forthcoming, 2016, dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2565. (PDF)
   

5. 5.Consignment contracts with revenue sharing for a capacitated retailer and multiple manufacturers, Yun Fong Lim, Yunzeng Wang, Yue Wu. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 17(4), 527-537, 2015. (CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), 2015.) (PDF)
   

6. 6.A quay crane system that self-recovers from random shocks, Yun Fong Lim, Yan Zhang, Chen Wang. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 27(4), 561-584, 2015. (PDF)
   

7. 7.A two-item two-warehouse periodic review inventory model with transshipment, Koushik S. Ramakrishna, Moosa Sharafali, Yun Fong Lim. Annals of Operations Research, 233(1), 365-381, 2015. (PDF)
   

8. 8.Cellular bucket brigades on U-lines with discrete work stations, Yun Fong Lim, Yue Wu. Production and Operations Management, 23(7), 1113-1128, 2014. (PDF)
   
   

9. 9.Robust storage assignment in unit-load warehouses, Marcus Ang, Yun Fong Lim, Melvyn Sim. Management Science, 58(11), 2114-2130, 2012. (PDF) (See supplemental materials.)
   
   

10. 10.Cellular bucket brigades, Yun Fong Lim. Operations Research, 59(6), 1539-1545, 2011. (PDF)
    
    

11. 11.Maximizing throughput of bucket brigades on discrete work stations, Yun Fong Lim, Kum Khiong Yang. Production and Operations Management, 18(1), 48-59, 2009. (PDF)
    

12. 12.Deterministic chaos in a model of discrete manufacturing, John J. Bartholdi, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun Fong Lim. Naval Research Logistics, 56(4), 293-299, 2009. (PDF)
    
    

13. 13.Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly network, John J. Bartholdi, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun Fong Lim. European Journal of Operational Research, 168(3), 870-879, 2006. (PDF)
    
    

14. 14.Self-organizing logistics systems, John J. Bartholdi, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun Fong Lim. Annual Reviews in Control, 34, 111-117, 2010. (A keynote paper in INCOM 2009, Moscow, Russia.) (PDF)
    
    

15. 15.Solving hierarchical constraints over finite domains with local search, Martin Henz, Roland H.C. Yap, Yun Fong Lim, Seet Chong Lua, J. Paul Walser, Xiao Ping Shi. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 40, 283-301, 2004. (PDF)
    
    

16. 16.Scale-invariant behavior in a spatial game of prisoners’ dilemma, Yun Fong Lim, Kan Chen, Ciriyam Jayaprakash. Physical Review E, 65, 026134, 2002. (PDF)
    
    

17. 17.Dynamics of dry friction: A numerical investigation, Yun Fong Lim, Kan Chen. Physical Review E, 58(5), 5637-5642, 1998. (PDF)
    

Refereed Book Chapters / Conference Papers:

1. 1.A rolling horizon auction mechanism and virtual pricing of shipping capacity for urban consolidation centers, Chen Wang, Hoong Chuin Lau, Yun Fong Lim. In Computational Logistics, ed. F. Corman et al., Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 422-436, 2015. (PDF)
   

2. 2.Order-picking by cellular bucket brigades: A case study, Yun Fong Lim. In Warehousing in The Global Supply Chain, ed. Riccardo Manzini, Springer-Verlag London, 71-85, 2012. (PDF)
   

3. 3.Dynamic pricing for hotels considering multiple-day stays, Qing Ding, Yun Fong Lim, Kum Khiong Yang, Proceedings of MSOM Service Management SIG Conference, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
   

4. 4.Chaos and convergence on bucket brigade assembly lines, John J. Bartholdi, Donald D. Eisenstein, Yun Fong Lim, Proceedings of MSOM Conference, 2007, Beijing, China. (PDF)
   

Research Grants:

1. 1.MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, Project Title: Integrating Inventory Management and Order Fulfillment for Online Retailing, Award Amount: S$135,840, 2017-2019.
   

2. 2.A*STAR - SERC Grant, Project Title: Market Mechanisms for Multi-Party Coordination of Urban Logistics Operations, Award Amount: S$578,400, 2013-2015.
   

3. 3.Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Fellowship, Project Title: Robust Warehouse Management, Award Amount: S$140,000, 2012-2014.
   

Invited Seminars:

1. 1.New York University, 2016.
   

2. 2.University of Maryland, 2016.
   

3. 3.Rutgers University, 2016.
   

4. 4.Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016.
   

5. 5.Fudan University, 2016.
   

6. 6.Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2016.
   

7. 7.Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2016.
   

8. 8.Cornell University, 2015.
   

9. 9.Renmin University of China, 2015.
   

10. 10.Northeastern University, China, 2015.
    

11. 11.University of Illinois - Chicago, 2014.
    

12. 12.Tsinghua University, 2014.
    

13. 13.Peking University, 2014.
    

14. 14.University of Colorado - Boulder, 2013.
    

15. 15.Syracuse University, 2012.
    

16. 16.Georgetown University, 2012.
    

17. 17.Nanyang Technological University, 2011.
    

18. 18.National Taiwan University, 2010.
    

19. 19.University of California - Riverside, 2008.
    

20. 20.National University of Singapore, 2004, 2005.
    

Invited Conference Presentations:

   

1. 1.Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Intelligent Transportation and Logistics with Big Data, 2017.
   

2. 2.Honorable Speaker, ORSCM Summer Workshop, National Tsing Hua University, 2017.
   

3. 3.Plenary Speaker, The 6th International Conference on Electronic Business, 2017.
   

4. 4.Keynote Speaker, SMU Industry Leaders Dialogue, 2016.
   

5. 5.Keynote Speaker, Express, Logistics, and Supply Chain (ELSC) Conclave, 2015.
   

6. 6.Keynote Speaker, ISES Industry Forum, 2014.
   

Professional Activities:

1. 1.Co-Chair, Conference on Next Generation Retail Operations 2016, Singapore.
   

2. 2.Co-Chair, Supply Chain Management and Logistics Research Roundtable 2014, Singapore.
   

3. 3.Program Committee Member, POMS-HK International 2016, Macau, China.
   

4. 4.Program Committee Member, POMS International 2014, Singapore.
   

5. 5.Program Committee Member, ICORES 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.
   

6. 6.Cluster Chair of Workforce Management, INFORMS 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
   

7. 7.Cluster Chair of Workforce Management, INFORMS 2011, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
   

8. 8.Cluster Chair of Workforce Management, INFORMS 2009, San Diego, California, USA.
   

9. 9.Stream Chair of Production and Inventory Systems, IFORS 2008, Sandton, South Africa.
   

Postdocs / Graduate Students:

1. 1.Chen WANG (Postdoc, 2012-15), Data Scientist, SAP.
   

2. 2.Yue WU (MSc, 2009-2011), Assistant Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. (He won 2nd Prize in the MIT Sloan’s 7th Annual Operations Simulation Competition.)
   

Industrial Projects:

Resorts World Sentosa, KTP Hospital, YCH Group, McMaster-Carr Company