Supply Chain’s Role in the Global MarketplaceWelcome to the inaugural issue of the

Supply Chain, Operations Management

& Business Statistics (SCOM) area news-

letter of the Sheldon B. Lubar School of

Business. This will be an annual publica-

tion to update UWM campus colleagues

and the business community on develop-

ments and achievements in the discipline

of supply chain management, which

comprises the sourcing, manufacturing,

and logistics functions of business.

These are challenging economic and

social times for Wisconsin and our na-

tion. In business, there is a long history

of strong manufacturing, logistics and

distribution in our state. With globaliza-

tion resulting in increased competition,

the demand for new knowledge and

well-qualified graduates in the area of

supply chain management has become

increasingly critical -- not only for

manufacturing companies, but also for

service-oriented companies in Wiscon-

sin and around the world. In this new

century, we will witness the outcomes

of designing, sourcing, producing, and

distributing products and services in

more globally dispersed contexts. It will

be especially revolutionary for firms that

have only recently entered the global

marketplace.

Over the last decade, business executives

and educators have been increasingly

reminded that designing, buying, sourc-

ing, making, delivering and supporting

innovative products and services requires

access to both a talent base, and cutting-

edge research and teaching. Several

major changes to the Lubar School’s

Supply Chain Management curriculum

are underway. It is anticipated that the

new major will be formally launched,

subject to final approval, beginning Fall

2012. However, we already began deliver-

ing much of the new course content

to SCOM majors during the past year.

Other courses are currently under devel-

opment and will be initially offered this

coming academic year.

One driving force behind the changes to

the major was the recent participation by

business community leaders in a curricu-

lum survey. The other driving force was

the Lubar School’s strategy to leverage

our strong connections to business as a

major metropolitan business school. As a

result, the new SCOM curriculum seeks

to produce graduates with an integrated

view of the purchasing, manufacturing

and logistics processes, an understand-

ing of the role of technology, and the

integrative skills to think globally and

act locally across all areas of business in

the public and private sectors. We strive

to make our graduates among the most

sought after professionals in the region.

Fall 2011 Calendar of Events

September 23, 2011

Resume Development Workshop: Supply Chain Majors

Lubar School of Business, Career Services Center

October 14, 2011

Interview Strategies Workshop: Supply Chain Majors

Lubar School of Business, Career Services Center

November 4, 2011

Supply Chain Careers Forum Lubar School of Business, Career Services Center

Supply Chain, Operations Management & Business Statistics Area

Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

P.O. Box 742

Milwaukee, WI 53201

lubar.uwm.edu/scomThis newsletter is published through private funding in support of the Lubar School’s supply chain initiatives.

Supply Chain, Operations Management & Business Statistics Newsletter

Lubar School of Business

2011–2012 Update

Lubar SCOM Students Team Up for APICS Competition

A team of Lubar

School supply

chain students trav-

elled to Chicago

in February to par-

ticipate in the an-

nual student case

competition hosted

by APICS (Advanc-

ing Productivity,

Innovation, and

Competitive Success). The Great Lakes District welcomed

over 30 teams to this year’s event. The Lubar School was rep-

resented by Adam Santella, Josh Madlung, Katie Risch, Nina

Zagar, Panhia Ly, James Tierney, and Julie Forsythe.

This year’s competition case focused on sustainability. Each

team was given 16 hours to prepare a formal analysis and

recommendation, and presented their findings to a panel of

industry judges. “Team Lubar” received honorable mention

for its analysis and presentation. Many thanks to the Milwau-

kee Chapter of APICS for providing partial support to the

Lubar students’ participation.

New FacesDr. Kaan Kuzu joined the faculty in 2010–11

as an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain &

Operations Management. Dr. Kuzu’s areas

of expertise include stochastic modeling of

service and manufacturing systems, queu-

ing theory, supply chain management,

behavioral research in operations, and

operations-marketing interfaces. He is a recent graduate of

the doctoral program in Supply Chain Management at The

Pennsylvania State University.

Also joining the faculty in this area is

Dr. Anthony D. Ross, who was appointed

as the first holder of the Rockwell Automa-

tion Endowed Chair in Supply Chain &

Operations Management. Dr. Ross focuses

on buyer-supplier relationships, supply

chain design, information technology in

the supply chain, and global logistics. He joined the supply

chain team after spending the last ten years at Michigan

State University. Previously, he spent five years at Texas A&M

University after earning his PhD from the Kelley School of

Business at Indiana University-Bloomington.

eNrOllMeNt UpdateThe growing importance of supply chain within industry has resulted

in the need for more highly qualified supply chain graduates. With

this increasing demand and a rigorous new curriculum, the Lubar

School’s enrollment in the SCOM major has seen steady increases

since the major was revised in 2007. The number of students majoring in supply chain management in Fall 2011 represents a 10% increase over last fall and a 46% increase over Fall 2007. The 202 students currently in the major

are comprised of 23% women students, 77% male students, and 14%

minority students.

“Our students recognize that there are great career opportunities as

companies increasingly compete through supply chain competences rather than simply through their products,” says Anthony D.

Ross, Rockwell Automation Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management. Ross and the SCOM faculty have worked closely with

industry to build a highly-relevant curriculum that meets the needs of many sectors of industry.

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Journal Editorships Held by Faculty

Xiang Fang

Editorial Review Board Member,

Production and Operations Management Journal

Anthony D. Ross

Associate Editor, Operations Management Research

Editorial Review Board Member,

Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management

Ehsan Soofi

Guest Editor: Econometric Reviews, Special Issue on Bayesian Inference and Information: In Memory of Arnold Zellner

Congratulations!Kudos to our colleagues for being

recognized for excellence with the

following awards this spring:

Layth C. Alwan, Gold Star Teaching Award

Xiang Fang, Gold Star Teaching Award

Anthony D. Ross, 2007–2010 Donald

Gordon Research Fellow, University of

Capetown Graduate School of Business,

South Africa

Ehsan S. Soofi, Dean’s Research

Fellowship Award

SCOM Area Faculty

Layth C. Alwan

Associate Professor, Supply Chain &

Operations Management

PhD, University of Chicago

Xiang Fang

Assistant Professor, Supply Chain &

Operations Management

PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Timothy C. Haas

Associate Professor, Business Statistics

PhD, Colorado State University

Kaan Kuzu

Assistant Professor, Supply Chain &

Operations Management

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

Cathy D. Poliak

Lecturer, Business Statistics

PhD, Northern Illinois University

Anthony D. Ross

Rockwell Automation Endowed

Chair in Supply Chain & Operations

Management

PhD, Indiana University

Timothy L. Smunt Sheldon B. Lubar Dean, and

Professor, Supply Chain &

Operations Management

DBA, Indiana University

Ehsan S. Soofi

Professor, Business Statistics

PhD, University of California, Riverside

Xiaohang Yue

Associate Professor, Supply Chain &

Operations Management

PhD, University of Texas at Dallas

Recent Publications Journal Articles, Published Proceedings, Books, Chapters

Alwan, L. C., Liu, J. J., Yao, D. Q. (2010), “Char-acteristics of Inventory Variation Under Autocor-related Demand by a Myopic Ordering Policy,” International Journal of Applied Management Science, Vol 2, pp. 372-387.

Asadi, M., Ashrafi, S., Ebrahimi, N., Soofi, E. S. (2010) “Models Based on Partial Information about Survival and Hazard Gradient”, Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, 24, 561–584.

Buffa, F., and Ross, A., A Model to Measure the Con-sequences of Using Diverse Supplier Evaluation Teams (forthcoming Journal of Business Logistics).

Ebrahimi, N., Hamedani, G.G., Soofi, E. S., Volk-mer, H. (2010) “A Class of Models for Uncor-related Random Variables”, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 1859-1871.

Ebrahimi, N., Kirmani, S.N.U.A., Soofi, E. S. (forthcoming) “Predictability of Operational Processes over Finite Horizon”, Naval Research Logistics.

Ebrahimi, N., Soofi, E. S., Soyer, R. (2010) “In-formation Measures in Perspective”, International Statistical Review, 78.

Ebrahimi, N., Soofi, E. S., Soyer, R. (2010) “On the Sample Information about Parameter and Prediction”, Statistical Science, 25, 348-367.

Ebrahimi, N., Soofi, E. S., Zhao, S. (2011) “Infor-mation Measures of Dirichlet Distribution with Applications”, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 27, 131-150.

Fang, X. and Yunzeng Wang (2010) “A Model for Partial Product Complementarity and Strategic Production Decisions under Demand Uncer-tainty,” Production and Operations Management, 19(3), 322-342.

Fang, X., Gavirneni, S., Rao, V. R. (2009). Supply Contracts in the Presence of Store Brands. MSOM 2009 Annual Conference Proceeding.

Haas, T. C. (2011), Improving Natural Resource Management: Ecological and Political Models}, a “Statistics in Practice” volume, cross-listed in the Environmental Management, Policy and Plan-ning, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, U.K.

Kuzu, Kaan, “Analytical and empirical investiga-tions of ticket queues: Implications for system

performance, customer perceptions and behavior” Doctoral Dissertation, Penn. State University, 2010.

Mishra, B., S. Raghunathan, and X. Yue, 2009 “Demand Forecast Sharing in Supply Chains” Production and Operations Management, 18(2), pages 152-166.

Moore D. S., McCabe, G. P., Alwan, L. C., Craig, B., and Duckworth W. M., (2011), The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics, New York, NY: W. H. Freeman.

Mukhopadhyay, S., X. Yue and X. Zhu, 2010, “A Stackelberg model of pricing of complementary goods under information asymmetry”, Interna-tional Journal of Production Economics, to appear.

Mukhopadhyay, S., X. Zhu, and X. Yue, 2010 “Role of Forecast Effort on Supply Chain Profit-ability Under Various Information Sharing Scenarios”, International Journal of Production Economics, to appear.

Nystrom, P. C., Soofi, E. S., Yasai-Ardekani M. (2010) “Identifying and Analyzing Extremes: Illustrated by CEOs’ Pay and Performance”, Orga-nization Research Methods, 13, 782-805.

Retzer, J.J., Soofi, E. S., Soyer R. (2009) “Infor-mation Importance of Predictors: Concepts, Measures, Bayesian Inference, and Applications”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, 2363-2377.

Ross, A. and Jayaraman, V. Strategic Purchases of Bundled Products and Services in a Closed-Loop Sup-ply Chain Environment, Decision Sciences Journal Vol. 40(2), pp.269-294, 2009.

Ross, A. and Buffa, F. Supplier Post Performance Evaluation: The Effects of Buyer Preference Weight Variance, International Journal of Production Research, 47(16), pp. 4351-4373, 2009.

Ross, A., and Parker, H. “Exploring Logis-tics Capability for Eighty-Nine Emerging and Developed Economies”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Life Cycle Management Confer-ence, Capetown, South Africa, 2009.

Ross, A., Buffa, F., Droge, C. and Carrington, D. Using Buyer-Supplier Performance Frontiers to Form Strategic Groups and Improvement Paths for Managing Relationship Performance, Decision Sciences Journal, 40(1), pp. 37-64, 2009.

Ross, A., Buffa, F., Prahinski, C. and Page, T. “In-corporating Dyadic Effects Within The Supplier Evaluation Process.” Proceedings of the National Meeting of the Decision Science Institute, San Diego, CA.

Ross, A., Jayaraman, V., Rodrigues, A. and Mollenkopf, D. A Simulation Metamodel for Repositioning Reusable Containers in a Closed Loop Supply Chain Environment, International Journal of Mathematics of Operations Research, 2(2), pp. 178-204, 2010

Ross, A., Miller, S. and Carpenter, M. When Meth-ods and Theories Collide: Toward a Better Understand-ing of Improving Unit Performance in a Multimarket Firm, Operations Management Research 3(3), pp. 172-183, 2010

Ross, A., Twede, D., Clark, R. and Ryan, M. A Model for Developing Implementation Strategies of a Radio Frequency Identification System in a Warehouse Environment, Journal of Business Logistics, 30(1), pp. 157-184, 2009.

Ross, A. Developing Talent Today for Supply Chains of Tomorrow, Manufacturing Executive Journal, March, 2011, 30-35.

Soofi, E. S., Nystrom, P. C., Yasai-Ardekani M. (2009) “Executives’ Perceived Environmental Uncertainty Shortly after 9/11”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, 3502-3515.

Soofi, E. S., Zhao, H., Nazareth, D.L. (2010) “Information Measures”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 2, 75-86.

Su, X., L. Wu, and X. Yue, 2010 “Impact of Introducing a Direct Channel on Supply Chain Performance” International Journal of E-Business, 8(2), pages 101-125.

Yao, D., X. Yue, S. Mukhopadhyay, and Z. Wang, 2009 “Strategic Inventory Deployment for Retail and E-tail Stores” OMEGA: An International Jour-nal of Management Science, 37(3), pages 646-658.

Zhang, L., and X. Yue, 2011 “Operations Sequencing in Flexible Production Lines with Bernoulli Machines” IEEE Transactions on Automa-tion Science and Engineering, to appear.