Submitted for Publication

"The Impact of Group Purchasing Organizations on Healthcare-Product Supply Chains", with Q. Hu and N. Uhan.  Submitted to MSOM, February 2011

"The Unexpected Impact of Information-Sharing on US Pharmaceutical Supply Chains", with Hui Zhao.  To appear in Interfaces.

“Inventory Management under Product Mis-identification/Shipment Errors,” with V. Deshpande and V. Raju.  Submitted to Management Science, December, ‘09

Refereed Publications

“Do GPOs Promote or Stifle Competition in Healthcare-Product Supply Chains”, with Qiaohai (Joice) Hu.  Production and Operations Management, 20:1 (2011), pp. 1-15.

“Leadtime Management in a Periodic-Review Inventory System:  A State-Dependent Base-Stock Policy,” with J. Lee, European Journal of Operations Research (EJOR), 11/2009

"Secure Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (SCPFR)" (with V. Deshpande, M.J. Atallah, M. Blanton, K. B. Frikken, and J. Li); Production and Operations Management, 20:2 (2011), pp. 165-180.

"Outsourcing Manufacturing: Secure Price-Masking Mechanisms for Purchasing Component Parts" (with A. Atallah, M. Blanton, V. Deshpande, and K. Frikken);  Production and Operations Management.

“The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering:  Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Solutions to Transform Healthcare-Delivery Systems”, with S. Witz and others, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 8:3-4, (2007) pp. 399-416.

"A Newsvendor's Procurement Problem When Suppliers are Unreliable" (with N. Petruzzi and M. Dada);  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 9:1 (Winter 2007), pp. 9-32.  Finalist for M&SOM's Best Paper Award in 2010.

"Leadtime Reduction in a (Q,r) Inventory System:  An Agency Perspective" (with J. Lee), to appear in The International Journal of Production Economics 105 (2006), pp. 204-212

"On the Interactions Between Routing and Inventory-Management Policies in a One-Warehouse N-Retailer Distribution System" (with J.E. Ward and X Zhai); Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 8:3 (Summer, 2006), pp. 253-272

"A Principal-Agent Model for Product Specification and Production", (with Ananth V. Iyer and Stefanos A. Zenios), Management Science 51:1 (1/2005), pp. 106-119

"The State-of-Practice in Supply-Chain Management:  A Research Perspective", to appear in Research Frontiers in Supply-Chain Management (Kluwer Applied Optimization Series), co-edited by E Akcali, J. Geunes, P. M. Pardalao, H. E. Romeijn, and J. J. Shen, Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005, pp. 325-362

"Secure Supply-Chain Protocols" (with M. J. Atallah, H. G. Elmongui, and V Deshpande), Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC), Newport Beach, California, June 2003, pp. 293-302.

"The Design of a JIT Supply Chain: The Impact of Lead-time Uncertainty on Safety Stock", (with Z. K. Weng), The Journal of Business Logistics 21:2,2000, pp. 231-253

"A New Teaching Paradigm: The Information/Control/Buffer Portfolio", Production and Operations Management 7:2, 1998, pp. 125-131

"Balancing Retailer Inventories", with E. McGavin and J. Ward, Operations Research 45:6 (11-12/97), pp. 820-830

"Risk-Pooling Along a Fixed Delivery Route Using a Dynamic Inventory Allocation Policy", (with A. Kumar and J. Ward), Management Science 41:2 (2/95), pp. 344-362

"Two-Interval Inventory-Allocation Policies in a One-Warehouse N-Identical Retailer System" , (with E. McGavin and J. Ward), Management Science 39:9 (9/93), pp. 1092-1107

"A Model for Assessing the Value of Warehouse Risk–Pooling: Risk–Pooling over Outside–Supplier Leadtimes," Management Science 35:7 (7/89), pp. 828-842

"Backorders Optimization in a One–Warehouse N–Retailer Distribution System," (with R. D. Badinelli) Naval Research Logistics 35:5 (10/88), pp. 427-440

"The Determination of Optimal Base–Stock Inventory Policy When the Costs of Under– and Over–Stocking are Uncertain," (with T. J. Lowe and E. McGavin) Naval Research Logistics 35:4 (8/88), pp. 539-554

"Fill-Rate Optimization in a One-Warehouse N-Identical Retailer Distribution System," (with B.L. Deuermeyer and R.D. Badinelli), Management Science 31:4 (4/85), pp. 488-498

"Parameter Estimation for the EOQ Lot-Size Model: Minimax and Expected Value Choices," (with T. J. Lowe), Naval Research Logistics 30:2 (6/83), pp. 367-376

"Physical Distribution: The Analysis of Inventory and Location", AIIE Transactions 13:2 (6/81), pp. 138-150

"A Model for the Analysis of System Service Level in Warehouse/Retailer Distribution Systems: The Identical Retailer Case," with B.L. Deuermeyer, Chapter 8 in Multi-Level Production/Inventory Control Systems: Theory and Practice, North-Holland, 1981

"An Integer Programming Approach to School District Financial Management," (with F. L. Dembowski), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 14 (1980), pp. 147-153

"On Stationarity and Optimality in Arborescent Production/Inventory Systems," (with S. C. Graves), Management Science 24:16 (12/78), pp. 1768-1769

"Scheduling Policies for Automatic Warehousing Systems: Simulation Results," (with S. C. Graves and W. H. Hausman), AIIE Transactions 10:3 (9/78), pp. 260-270

"An Appraisal of the Empirical Performance of the Linear Decision Rule," (with R. Johnson), Management Science 24:8 (4/78), pp. 844-849

"On Echelon Holding Costs," (with L. Schrage), Management Science 24:8 (4/78), pp. 865-866

"A Note on the Optimality of '5-EOQ's Worth' Forecast Horizons," Operations Research 25:3 (5-6/77), pp. 533-536

"Storage-Retrieval Interleaving in Automatic Warehousing Systems," (with S. C. Graves and W. H. Hausman), Management Science 23:9 (5/77), pp. 935-945

"Extensions of the Multi-Period Facility Phase-Out Model: New Procedures and Application to a Phase-In/Phase-Out Problem," (with G. M. Roodman) AIIE Transactions 9:1 (3/77), pp. 103-107

"Single Cycle Continuous Review Policies for Arborescent Production/Inventory Systems," (with S. C. Graves), Management Science 23:5 (1/77), pp. 529-540

"Optimal Storage Assignment in Automatic Warehousing Systems," (with W. H. Hausman and S. C. Graves) Management Science 22:6 (2/76), pp. 629-638

"Optimal and System Myopic Policies for Multi-Echelon Production/Inventory Assembly Systems," (with L. Schrage), Management Science 21:11 (7/75), pp. 1285-1294

"Optimal and Heuristic Facility Phase-Out Strategies," (with G. M. Roodman), AIIE Transactions 7:2 (6/75), pp. 177-184

"A Simple Continuous Review Deterministic One Warehouse N-Retailer Inventory Problem," Management Science 19:5 (1/73), pp. 555-566

"Economic Order Quantities for Products with Finite Demand Horizons," AIIE Transactions 4:3 (9/72), pp. 234-237

Case Studies

"Strategic Commodity Team Review of Car Audio Procurement at Ford Motor Company" (with A. Iyer), 2001

"Adjustable Brake-Pedal Purchasing at Ford Motor Company (with A. Iyer), 1999

"Hewlett-Packard:  the Inkjet Supplies Business Unit (IJBU)", 1996

"Carrier Corporation" (with C. Sullivan and C. Woo), 1994

"CareSecure" (with C. Sullivan and C. Woo), 1994

"Ingersoll-Rand Corporation Power-Tool Division" (with C. Berger, C. Sullivan and C. Woo), 1992

Books

Teaching Production/Operations Management: Visions, Topics, and Pedagogies, (with Kalyan Singhal), special issue of Production and Operations Management, 1998

Micro–Computer Models for Operations Management (with James Freeland), University of Virginia, 1986

Multi-Level Production/Inventory Control Systems: Theory and Practice, (Editor) North-Holland, 1981

Book in Progress

Operations Management: Analytic Insight and Strategic Viewpoint. Basic Operations Management text under contract with Prentice-Hall Publishing Company

Book Chapters

"Healthcare-Product Supply Chains: Medical-Surgical Supplies, Pharmaceuticals, and Orthopedic Devices" Handbook of Healthcare-Delivery Systems, Y.Yi (Editor), to be published by the Taylor & Francis Group

"The EOQ Model", Building Intuition: Insights from Basic Operations Management Models and Principles, D. Chhajed and T. Lowe (eds.), Spirnger International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, 2008

"Paper Hats" (with J. Ward), Games and Exercises for Operations Management, J. Heineke and L. C. Meile (eds.), Prentice-Hall, 1995. This is an in-class game designed to demonstrate the principles and mechanics of kanban (i.e., just-in-time) production and inventory management.

 "Making Chips" (with J. Ward), Games and Exercises for Operations Management, J. Heineke and L. C. Meile (eds.), Prentice-Hall, 1995.. This is an in-class game designed to demonstrate the principles and mechanics of traditional job-shop production systems.

"The Information/Control/Buffer Portfolio: an Operations Management Paradigm," Perspectives on Operations Management: Essays in Honor of Elwood S. Buffa, R. K. Sarin (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

"Micro-Computer Graphics Models for Sensitivity Analysis of Inventory Control Systems," Impacts of Micro-Computers in Operations Research, edited by S. Gass et al, North–Holland, 1986