On the afternoon of April 24, 2025 (Thursday), CUFE Business School successfully held the Special Academic Lecture of CUFE 2025 and the Eighth Lecture of Academic Excellence Lecture Theatre of the Business School 2025 in the Conference Room 615 of the Main Teaching Building of the South College Road Campus. Peter Shi, Senior Lecturer of Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia, was invited as the guest speaker for this lecture. Teachers and graduate students from the School of Business attended the event.
The meeting was hosted by Associate Prof. Shandong Mou from CUFE Business School. Before the lecture, Associate Professor Mou Shandong introduced the academic background of Peter Shi, who is the Head of Supply Chain Management at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Australia, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and President of CILT NSW Australia. He has published over 100 journal articles, of which more than 70 have appeared in ABDC A/A* and ABS 3/4 journals, and is a member of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Supply Chain Management, and International Journal of Supply Chain Management. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Transportation Research Part E, and International Journal of Logistics Management.
The topic of Peter Shi's lecture is “Digital Intelligence Innovation and Industry Practice in Supply Chain Finance: Tailor-made Supply Chain Finance Models and Frontier Explorations for Private SMEs in China by Utilizing Banks' Resource Endowment”. He discussed the key role of digital innovation in supply chain finance against the backdrop of global geopolitical turmoil and China's rapid economic recovery. The lecture focused on how to utilize the “resource endowment” of China's banking industry and digital intelligence technology to customize highly applicable and highly scalable supply chain finance models for more than 44 million Chinese private SMEs, in order to solve the long-standing problems of “difficult, expensive and slow financing” and to help enterprises solve the problems of “difficult, expensive and slow financing”, and to help enterprises solve the problems of “difficult, expensive and slow financing”, and to help enterprises solve the problems of “difficult, expensive and slow financing”. “Peter Shi shared the research results of the “Supply Chain Model Tailored for China's Private SMEs” based on China's self-developed and independent air banking technology, and presented specific model design and practice cases, providing participants with cutting-edge information on supply chain finance and its application to more than 44 million Chinese private SMEs. Peter Shi shared his research results on “Tailor-made Supply Chain Model for Chinese MSMEs” based on China's self-developed and autonomous airbanking technology, and presented concrete model design and practical cases, which provided participants with cutting-edge academic insights and practical inspiration.
After the lecture, the participating teachers and students focused on the theme of Peter Shi's sharing, and started a lively discussion on the digital innovation of supply chain finance, the application scenarios of the model, the challenges of financing for SMEs, and the related research methodology, which further deepened the exchanges between academics and practitioners.
“The Academic Excellence Forum is an academic exchange platform established by CUFE Business School to fulfill its mission of “contributing new knowledge to management”, aiming to focus on the cutting-edge theoretical issues and organizational development dilemmas in the discipline of business administration and the practice of Chinese enterprise management, and to gather cutting-edge thoughts and ideas at home and abroad, as well as to share the latest developments in the field. The purpose of the platform is to bring together cutting-edge ideas and innovative perspectives from home and abroad to explore Chinese solutions for China's social and economic development.
