Staff profile

Professor Fang LIU is currently a Professor of Operations Management at the Durham University Business School (DUBS). She has a doctoral degree in Operations Management from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA. Her research interests are in Supply Chain Resilience and Inventory Management. She has conducted excellent research and published many papers in publishes in several FT top 50 journals including Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Professor Liu has secured multiple competitive research grant funding either as a Primal Investigator or co-Primal Investigator. She joined Durham University in 2023 from The University of Chinese Academy and before that, she worked at Nanyang Technological University. Professor Liu has worked with several public/private and third-sector organizations in assisting them in improving their operations including Cummins, Singapore IFRC, Meide, and so on.

Research Interests

• Supply chain resilience
• Inventory management
• E-commerce and warehouse management
• Corporate social responsibility and sustainability

Journal Article

• Guo, Y., Liu, F., Song, J.-S., & Wang, S. (online). Supply Chain Resilience: A Review from the Inventory Management Perspective. Fundamental Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2024.08.002
• Denga, Q., Lic, X., Fong Limd, Y., & Liu, F. (online). Optimal Policies and Heuristics To Match Supply With Demand For Online Retailing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2021.0394
• Li, X., Lin, H., & Liu, F. (2024). Should Only Popular Products Be Stocked? Warehouse Assortment Selection for E-Commerce Companies. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(4), 1372-1386. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0428
• Chua, G., Hu, G., & Liu, F. (2023). Optimal multi-unit allocation with costly verification. Social Choice and Welfare, 61(3), 455-488. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-023-01463-5
• Guo, P., Liu, F., & Wang, Y. (2020). Pre-positioning and Deployment of Reserved Inventories in a Supply Network: Structural Properties. Production and Operations Management, 29(4), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13142
• Liu, F., Lewis, T. R., Song, J.-S., & Kuribko, N. (2019). Long-Term Partnership for Achieving Efficient Capacity Allocation. Operations Research, 67(4), 984-1001. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2019.1878
• Liu, F., & Gavirneni, S. (2018). Optimal periodic flexible policies for two-stage serial supply chains. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(1), 148-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.01.004
• Liu, F. (2017). A greedy algorithm for solving ordinary transportation problem with capacity constraints. Operations Research Letters, 45(4), 388-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2017.05.009
• Liu, F., & Song, J.-S. (2017). Coordinating a Semi-Centralized Global Production Network Through Different Levels of Headquarters Involvement. Production and Operations Management, 26(2), 305-319
• Liu, F., Song, J., & Tong, J. D. (2016). Building Supply Chain Resilience through Virtual Stockpile Pooling. Production and Operations Management, 25(10), 1745-1762. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12573
• Liu, F., & Song, J.-S. (2012). Good and Bad News About the (S, T) Policy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 14(1), 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.1110.0353