When Yang Chi-hang, whose career experience spans industry, government and academia, was helping to set up Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, he put forward the idea that the new university's College of Management should include departments of "marketing and distribution" and "transportation, warehousing and logistics," to meet industry's need for people trained in the areas of "business flows" and "materials flow."
擁有產、官、學完整背景的楊啟航在參與高雄第一科技大學籌設時，就提出革新的構想：在管理學院成立「行銷與流通管理系」及「運輸與倉儲營運系」，分別針對企業需要培養「商流」與「物流」的人才。