Shenghan Xu

Associate Professor Xu has secured more than $4.5 million in federal funding and is the founding principal investigator of the Idaho ECHO Project. In addition, she works extensively with the business community, providing companies of different sizes with supply chain and operations consulting and solutions. 

Associate Professor performs interdisciplinary research in four areas, which she tackles from international- and cross-cultural perspectives:

1. Sustainability, Diversity, Equity, and Governmental-related issues in supply chains;
2. Additive manufacturing and operation;
3. Healthcare supply chain coordination and integration;
4. Supply chain education and talent development.

Her research methodological expertise includes

1. Mathematical programming and optimization,
2. Business analytics and data visualization,
3. Stochastic simulation,
4. Theory building and systematic literature review. 

1. Xu, S., and Tan, A., (2023) The Impact of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Product Offering and Forecast Bias on Supply Chain Decisions. International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies, 10 (1), 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55284/ijebms.v10i1.821
2. Raeymaekers, B., Leang, K., Porfiri, M., and Xu, S. (2021) Manufacturing for the Masses: A Novel Concept for Consumer 3D Printer Networks in the Context of Crisis Relief. Advanced Intelligent Systems 2021, 2100121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100121
3. Xu, S.  and Round, M. (2019) DuPont Model: A Tool Promotes System Thinking and Integration in Undergraduate Business Education. International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting. Vol 9. No 1, March 2019.
4. Xu, S. (2018). Patient-Centered Medical Home: An Example of Healthcare Supply Chain Integration. International Journal of Business Management and Commerce. Vol 3. No 3. pp. 19-24, June 2018. ISBN: 2519-9048.
5. Tan, L., Xu, S., Meyer, B. and Erwin, B. (2012) An Agent-Based Formal Framework for Modeling and Simulating Supply Chains. International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 4 (2/3), pp.251 – 267. ISBN: 1756-7017.
6. Motiwalla, L., Khan, M. and Xu, S. (2005). An Intra- and Inter-industry Analysis of E-business Effectiveness. Information and Management. Elsevier B.V., 42(5), pp. 651-667. ISBN: 0378-72

1. Co-Principal Investigator, Establishing TeleECHO Hub in the WWAMI program at the University of Idaho. Awarded by the Idaho Bureau of Rural Health through the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. (Awarded in November 2017 from 2017 through 2020, $380,000)
2. Principal Investigator, Statewide Healthcare Innovation Plan State-level Evaluation Project. Contract number AC058900-1, Amendment number: 1. Awarded by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare through the funding Opportunity Number CMS-1G1-14-001 From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare Medicaid Service. (Awarded in October 2016, $707,314)
3. Principal Investigator, Statewide Healthcare Innovation Plan State-level Evaluation Project.  Contract number AC058900, Awarded by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare through the funding Opportunity Number CMS-1G1-14-001 From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare Medicaid Service. (Awarded in June 2016, $2,939,514)
4. Co-Principal Investigator, Serving Local and Regional Markets in the Intermountain West: Identifying and Overcoming Constraints in a Vast Geography, United States Department of Agriculture NIFA AFRI 2013. (Awarded in April 2013, $500,000)