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EDMUND W. SCHUSTER
Edmund W. Schuster has held the appointment of Director of the Affiliates Program in Logistics at MIT and is currently working as Co-Director, Administration and Research Associate at the MIT Data Center, a new research initiative.
Prior to MIT, Ed worked as corporate manager of operations planning at Welch Foods and also for Oscar Mayer. His career encompasses the field of logistics with responsibilities including the management of corporate raw materials and operations. In addition to his 20 years’ management experience in the consumer goods industry, he has also served as adjunct faculty at Penn State–Erie, lecturing in the areas of business logistics, operations management, and quantitative business analysis.
Ed has published more than 50 articles on the application of management science to solve realworld problems. His research has appeared in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; the Journal of Business Logistics; Interfaces; and Production & Inventory Management Journal. Several of these articles focus on new areas such as capacitated materials requirements planning and mathematical modeling of harvest risk. Other areas of research include semantic modeling, Auto-ID technology, economics of information, master schedule stability, Asian logistics systems, visualization, the practice of modeling, and semantic modeling. In 2004, he won the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award given by the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) for best paper.
In spring 2006, his book titled Raising the Bar[Code]: the Value of the EPC Network will be published by Thomson South-Western.
In August 2006, Ed authored a chapter on the impact of Auto-ID technology on ERP systems that appears in the book titled Strategic ERP: Extension and Use, published by Stanford University Press.
Ed has a bachelor’s degree in food technology from The Ohio State University and an M.P.A. (emphasis in management science) from Gannon University (Erie,
Pennsylvania). He also attended the Executive Development Program for Distribution Managers at the University of Tennessee. In addition, Ed is certified
at the fellow level by the American Production and Inventory Control Society, is certified in integrative resource management, and is a member of a number of professional societies.
You can download a chronicle of Ed's activities from c.v.
A number of Ed's publications can be found online at the MIT Data Center web site at the following links:
Most recent work involving the MIT Data Center
Detailed analysis of subjects relating to the Data Center.
One-page abstracts of the Center's research
Material from conferences and seminars.
Introduction to important issues concerning interoperability.
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A host of material relating to The Data Center, including Auto-ID Technology.
Material relating to supply chain management and Auto-ID.
Updates on books published by members of The Data Center
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