Global Supply Chain Management (Supply and Operations Management Collection)

Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart

Matt Drake, PhD, CFPIM, is assistant professor of supply chain management and director of International Business Programs at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University, where he teaches courses in global transportation and logistics, production planning and inventory control, and operations management. Dr. Drake received a BS in Business Administration from Duquesne University and an MSIE and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA, International Journal of Production Economics, Naval Research Logistics, OR Spectrum, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Journal of Business Ethics. He has also published numerous case studies and pedagogical tools in INFORMS Transactions on Education and Spreadsheets in Education.