Liu Zhong

I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Transportation Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University in 2011, China.  I received my Master’s degree from Warwick University in Supply Chain and Logistics Management in 2014. Now, I am doing my PhD at Heriot-Watt University.The Internet of Things (IoT) has witnessed a pervasive application in different levels of supply chains, which potentially creates an ideal context for self-organising logistics. While a self-organising logistics system may have advantages in absorbing dynamics and complexity arising in supply networks, it is also unpredictable in terms of what emergent patterns it will produce. That means there is no guarantee that a self-organising logistics system will always serve its purposes to our advantages. Taking this argument, my research will make an attempt to understand how to achieve a self-organising logistic system that is more likely to function beneficially within a supply network.