'Joe Thomas is a true renaissance academic who has integrated
research, teaching, practice and leadership. He's advised numerous
companies through board positions and consulting engagements. His
research has identified and focused on real issues in operations
management, like overcoming the dark side of worker flexibility and
other aspects of the human component of operations. And he has then
incorporated research findings into his teaching, including cases
on issues like global operations that we can all benefit from. Joe
is so admired by his colleagues that they chose him to lead the
Johnson School as Dean. Joe is a model and an inspiration for all
of us. This book, with its emphasis on cross-functional approaches
to inventory management, is an excellent way to honor Joe on his
retirement.'Marshall L FisherUniversity of Pennsylvania'Joe Thomas
is one of the Grand Masters in our field of operations management.
I will always remember him fondly as someone who has accomplished
so much, with such a high status in our profession, and yet at the
same time, a humble, warm and gentle scholar. In my early student
days, I read of Joe's work in multi-echelon inventory systems. He
has made deep contributions in manufacturing and distribution
network designs and operations management, before the term 'supply
chain management' became popular. He is also one of the early
scholars in operations management who recognized and promoted the
importance of looking at manufacturing and operations as a strategy
for a firm. I have learned a great deal from both his writings and
from interactions with him face to face. Of course, Joe has also
been serving our community as an editor and through professional
society leadership. I had first-hand experience from his editorship
directly, since he processed some of the papers that I published.
That experience also taught me how to have high standards, be
encouraging, and be generous in giving advice and inputs in the
editorial process. As a junior researcher at the time, such
editorial support was both helpful and served as a great model. As
a senior colleague, Joe has always treated me as a friend, making
me feel comfortable and easy to exchange with him. Over the years,
many of our colleagues have benefited tremendously from his
mentorship and support. While he is a very serious researcher and
holds very high standards in his work, Joe's personality radiates
warmth and energy to those around him. And then he adds humor at
the right time. I will never forget when Joe led all of us at a
conference honoring the retirement of El Buffa to sing a song with
lyrics that he composed himself, titled 'Just-in-Time.' The lyrics
contained lessons in a very funny way. Joe is a pioneer in research
(as well as in teaching and practice) that connected inventory
management to other business functions such as human resources,
marketing, finance and accounting. Thus, with its emphasis on
cross-functional inventory research, this book is an excellent way
to honor him on his retirement. It is a privilege for us to
recognize and celebrate with him all he has done for our
profession!' Hau L LeeStanford UniversityCross-Functional Inventory
Research details path-breaking analytical, empirical and behavioral
operations management research that interfaces inventory with the
business functions of human resources, finance, accounting,
information technology, and globalization.For about fifty years,
inventory research was conducted with a silo mentality with
assumptions of exogenous pricing, price-independent demand
distribution, rational human decision making, and lack of
information sharing. Over the past few years, there is increased
realization that this kind of analysis and thinking will not be
useful for the modern business world. This has motivated inventory
researchers to reach across different business functional areas
such as finance, marketing, human capital and information
technology and identify research questions that are more
appropriate for the modern, complex, data-driven business
environments. Cross-Functional Inventory Research contains
path-breaking research developments in cross-functional inventory
research. The methodologies applied to answer these research
questions cover the complete gamut of empirical, analytical, and
behavioral approaches.
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