Manufacturing Systems Engineering Faculty

James Rappold

James A. Rappold

Assistant Professor
School of Business
Industrial and Systems Engineering

Office: 326 Fluno Center for Executive Education
Telephone: (608) 441-7355
E-Mail: jrappold@bus.wisc.edu

Research Interests:

	Application of Mathematics and Operations Research to the analysis, design and operation of manufacturing and distribution systems
	Inventory Optimization
	Development of manufacturing information systems
	Production planning and inventory theory in lean manufacturing environments
	Supply chain management
	Design of collaborative business and decision support systems

Current Projects:

	Manufacturing and logistics system design and operation in the discrete parts industries, process industries and service parts industries
	Inventory planning models for large - scale capacitated production and distribution systems
	Forecasting using both historical and future information
	Component inventory planning
	Decision models for stochastic cycle demand
	Production and inventory strategies for systems with long setup times and highly uncertain customer demand

Created: July 1, 2002
Last Modified: November 22, 2002
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