The Supply Chain in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Transportation

Kenneth D. Lawrence, Ph.D., is a professor of Management and Marketing Science and Decision Support Systems in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His professional employment includes over 20 years of technical management experience with AT&T as Director, Decision Support Systems and Marketing Demand Analysis; Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.; Prudential Insurance; and the U.S. Army in forecasting, marketing planning and research, statistical analysis, and operations research. He is a full member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems. Lawrence has served as the doctoral chairman and thesis advisor for four Rutgers doctoral students. He is a member of the graduate faculty at NJIT in management, transportation, statistics, and industrial engineering. He is also an active participant in professional associations, including the Decision Sciences Institute, Institute of Management Science, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Statistical Association, and Institute of Forecasters. He has conducted significant funded research projects in health care and transportation.Lawrence is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation and the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and also serves on the editorial boards of Computers and Operations Research and the Journal of Operations Management. His research work has been cited hundreds of times in 74 different journals, including Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, Technometrics, Applied Statistics, Interfaces, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics, and the Journal of the Academy of Mar