Alan Andrew Scheller-Wolf
Associate Professor of Manufacturing and Operations Management

B.A., Stanford University, 1989;
B.S., 1989;
M.S., Columbia University, 1994;
M.Phil, 1996; Ph.D., 1996

e-mail: awolf@andrew.cmu.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

International operations, capacitated inventory models, stochastic modeling, quantity contracts, supply chain management, queueing theory, quality, long-range dependent processes, service disciplines in computer networks. Inventory systems with expedited and regular supply modes, perishable inventory theory, multi-echelon inventory.

Major Publications/Papers:

"Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar," with U. Rao and S. Tayur, Operations Research, 2000;

"Further Delay Moment Results for FIFO Multiserver Queues," Queueing Systems, 2000;

"Capacitated Inventory Problems with Fixed Order Costs: Some Optimal Policy Structure," with G. Gallego, European Journal of Operations Research, 2000;

"Moments in Tandem Queues," with K. Sigman, Operations Research, 1998;

"A Markovian Dual-Source Production-Inventory Model with Order Bands," with S. Tayur, GSIA Working Paper #1998-E200;

"Reducing International Risk Through Quantity Contracts," with S. Tayur, GSIA Working Paper #1997-42;

"New Bounds for Expected Delay in GI/GI/c Queues," with K. Sigman, Queueing Systems;

"Delay Moments for FIFO GI/GI/c Queues," with K. Sigman, Queueing Systems, 1997.

Editorial Boards:

• Associate Editor, IIE Transactions
, 2000-

Consulting:

• American Red Cross
• Caterpillar Inc
• UNext, 1999-2000

Awards/Honors:

• BP Research Chair, GSIA, 1999-2000