BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Paul Zipkin

Paul H. Zipkin is the T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His academic degrees come from Reed, Berkeley and Yale.

His teaching, research, and consulting focus on how supply chains work and how to make them work better, and their strategic roles in the success or failure of companies in the global marketplace. Within this broad theme, his work is concerned with issues of inventory management in supplier-customer relations; the impact of new production and communications technologies on supply-chain performance; coping with product variety at both the operational and strategic levels; and the design of logistics networks.

He has published some 50 articles in scholarly journals and co-edited the book, Logistics of Production and Inventory. His book, Foundations of Inventory Management, appeared in 2000. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and often advises companies, government agencies, and other organizations. He is a Fellow of the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society.