With Michigan State University’s supply chain management programs, you’ll not only benefit from the knowledge of a leading research university, but also its expert on-campus masters-level faculty. Communicating with professors during virtual office hours and viewing courses via streaming video make learning faster than in the traditional classroom setting.
PROGRAM FACULTY
Dr. David J. Closs is the John H. McConnell Chaired Professor of Business Administration and Chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. Dr. Closs completed his MBA and PhD at Michigan State in 1978 focusing on the topics of marketing, logistics and management science. He is an active member in the Council of Logistics Management and was Editor of the Journal of Business Logistics. Dr. Closs also is Executive Editor of Logistics Quarterly.
Dr. Closs has been extensively involved in the development and application of computer models and information systems for logistics operations and planning. The computer models have included applications for location analysis, inventory management, forecasting and routing. The information systems development focuses on inventory management, forecasting and transportation applications. Dr. Closs’s primary research interests include supply chain strategy, information systems, security and planning techniques. He was one of the principle researchers in two studies completed by Michigan State University investigating world-class logistics and supply chain capabilities.
Dr. David J. Frayer is the Assistant Dean for Executive Education & Professional Development in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in marketing, logistics and international business, B.A. and M.B.A. in marketing from Michigan State University. Prior to returning to Michigan State University for his PhD, Dr. Frayer was a part of a product development staff group at Ameritech Publishing, Inc. In addition to his responsibilities at MSU, he also co-directs the annual Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Executive Seminar in June each year. Dr. Frayer has co-authored many books and reports including: Best Practice Model for ECR Alliances: Guidelines for the Development, Implementation and Maintenance of Alliances, World Class Logistics: The Challenge of Managing Continuous Change, a research-based book prepared for the Council of Logistics Management, and New Product Development: Strategies for Supplier Integration, a research-based book prepared for the American Society for Quality. He has published several articles in various prestigious journals. Dr. Frayer is also a frequent speaker at professional meetings, academic conferences and executive development programs. He is a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and the Supply Chain Management Council of West Michigan.
Dr. Tomas Hult is the Byington Endowed Chair, Professor of International Business, and Director of the International Business Center in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Hult is also the Executive Director of the Academy of International Business, with members in some 90 countries; President of the AIB Foundation and board member of the Sheth Foundation. He serves on the U.S. District Export Council and has organized teams that have helped some 12,000 firms in the U.S. expand internationally since 2006.
Dr. Tomas Hult is one of the world’s leading authorities on global strategy. He particularly specializes in topics dealing with the intersection of international business and supply chain management. Some of his recent books include: Global Supply Chain Management (2014) with David Closs and David Frayer (published by McGraw Hill Professional) and Total Global Strategy (2012) with George Yip (published by Pearson Prentice Hall). In research, Hult consistently ranks at the very top in international business and supply chain management. For his research work, he has been recognized with election as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (one of only 83 scholars in the world bestowed with this honor, and the only one focused on supply chain management.)
M. Bixby Cooper, PhD is an Associate Professor with the Department of Supply Chain Management. He received his BS from the University of North Carolina, his MBA from the University of Virginia and his PhD from the University of Alabama. Dr. Cooper has spent time in Japan, Korea, Australia and Brazil, gaining invaluable knowledge about their cultural and business practices. Through his travels and research abroad studying distribution practices, Dr. Cooper has gained a greater understanding of the ideology of logistics and distribution. Dr. Cooper pulls from these international experiences to enhance his lectures and encourage students to understand cultural differences existent in the business world. He believes a great challenge to conducting business abroad is dealing with a diversity of cultures and languages. Despite these inherent challenges, he stresses the value of doing business abroad and its ability to broaden students’ understanding of the global environment. Dr. Cooper hopes to see Michigan State University improve its joint programs with universities abroad, specifically with universities that have strong business programs.
MS in Supply Chain Management
Dr. Yemisi Bolumole is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining the faculty of Michigan State University, she was an Associate Professor of Logistics at the University of North Florida, where she served as the Director of the Transportation and Logistics Flagship Program. Her primary teaching interests include logistics systems design/analysis, global logistics, and supply chain management.
Her research has been published and presented in numerous conference proceedings, book chapters, and academic journals, including the Journal of Business Logistics (which recognized her with a best paper award), Transportation Journal, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Research, OR Insight, the International Journal of Logistics Management, and the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing.
Dr. Bolumole is an active member of the professional community, including leadership appointments in the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and APICS. She is currently serving as the Chair of APICS’ CLTD – logistics certification exam committee. In addition to her academic teaching and research interests, Dr. Bolumole is a certified SAP solutions architect and consultant.
Prior to joining academia, Dr. Bolumole worked in the oil/gas and 3PL sectors in the areas of Operations Management and Business Development.
Dr. Bolumole received her Ph.D. in Logistics & Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. She also holds a Master of Science in Energy Conservation and the Environment from Cranfield University and a Master of Arts in Business and Management from the University of East London.
Dr. William Donohue is the Distinguished Professor of Communication in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in persuasion, communication skill development, and conflict management. He is also the co-founder of the Sales Communication Specialization.
Dr. Donohue serves as a Fellow of both the International Communication Association and the International Association for Conflict Management. He has published over 100 journal articles and 12 books in the subject areas of conflict, communication, negotiation, mediation, conflict management, and web-based approaches to professional development in the field of medicine.
Dr. Donohue is also a communication consultant, working primarily in communication training. He has developed communication and management training programs for public and private sector organizations and has established a leadership institute for Farm Bureau Insurance in Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Stanley Griffis is the John H. McConnell Professor of Business Administration and Bowersox-Thull Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. His teaching and research focuses on a variety of issues in logistics and supply chain management, including how consumers truly value the set of logistics and supply chain services companies strive to differentiate upon, and illicit supply chain networks and the challenges they create for legitimate business operations.
Dr. Griffis’s research has been published in the Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Research, Transportation Journal, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Management, International Journal of Management Science (Omega), International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management Review, and the Journal of Transportation Management. He is the recipient of multiple “best paper” awards in supply chain journals and is a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant winner (2019).
Prior to joining academia, he worked on numerous logistics system design programs for the U.S. Air Force.
Professor Griffis received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University with a major in Logistics and a minor in Information Systems Management. He also holds a Master of Science in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Master of Arts in Logistics from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Ahmet H. Kirca is an Associate Professor of International Business and Marketing in the Department of Marketing of the Eli Broad College of Business. He serves as the Director of International Business Center and MSU-CIBER and is the Director of the Doctoral Program in the Department of Marketing.
Dr. Kirca teaches international business/marketing, marketing research and marketing strategy courses at the undergraduate, MBA and Ph.D. levels. He also offers workshops and seminars on applied meta-analytic techniques. His research interests focus on international business and marketing strategy with a special emphasis on firm internationalization, innovation, organizational culture and applied meta-analysis.
His research has been published in such major academic journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Research in Marketing and Journal of World Business, among others.
Before joining academia, Dr. Kirca gained extensive industry experience in the textile and tourism industries in his native Turkey.
He received his Ph.D. degree in International Business from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Prior to joining MSU in 2006, he worked at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Anand Nair is the Eli Broad Endowed Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management. He is also a Michigan State University alumnus, having received his Ph.D. in Operations & Supply Chain Management from the Eli Broad College of Business. After finishing his doctoral studies, Dr. Nair served on the faculties of the University of South Carolina and Auburn University before joining the Department of Supply Chain Management at MSU.
As a part of his research, Dr. Nair examines administrative innovation, technological innovation, and behavioral dynamics in projects, firms and supply networks. His research articles have been published in leading operations and supply chain management journals. He was selected as the Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair in 2017-2018. He serves on the editorial boards of various journals and is currently serving as a Department Editor for the Journal of Operations Management and an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences.
Dr. Nair holds the Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM) designation from ASCM The Association of Supply Chain Management and has completed the deep learning specialization from Deeplearning.AI. He has served as Decision Sciences Institute Vice-President and Secretary as well as a member of its Board of Directors.
Prior to completing his Ph.D., Dr. Nair worked as a Manager for Systems Integration in India. He has worked with organizations in manufacturing, healthcare and retail sectors on issues such as inventory management, forecasting, pricing, capacity planning, lean systems, manufacturing planning and control, quality management, contracting, product development, process improvement and technology implementation.
Dr. Sriram Narayanan is the Kesseler Family Endowed Faculty Fellow of Supply Chain Management. He has taught courses in project management, agile product development, technology and innovation management, and service supply chains, with a focus on solution development and scaling in digital environments.
In his cross-disciplinary research, Dr. Narayanan attempts to blend practice and theories, and many of his academic papers are directly drawn from industry environments. His primary research interests include innovation, organizational productivity, sustainability, and inclusion in supply chains.
He is a regular contributor to the Supply Chain Management Review and has published more than 30 articles in top-tier journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations, Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Retailing, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, among others.
Dr. Narayanan has received multiple awards for teaching, research, community engagement, and service, including the John D. and Dorotha, J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Research Scholar Award; Community-Engaged Partnership Award at Michigan State University, the Lilly Fellowship (MSU) – Broad Integrative Fellowship (MSU), and the distinguished service award by the India Chapter of the Decision Sciences Institute for his contributions to the society.
Prior to joining academia, Dr. Narayanan worked in the industry as a procurement executive in Maruti Suzuki and as a project leader for HCL Technologies Limited, primarily working with Cisco Systems.
Tobias Schoenherr, PhD, CSCP is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor in Purchasing and Supply Management. Recently recognized to be among the Top 10 thought leaders worldwide in supply chain management research, he is an award-winning scholar and teacher focusing on the area of sourcing, with a particular interest in buyer-supplier relationships.
Dr. Schoenherr’s work has appeared in more than 75 peer-reviewed publications, including Management Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and the Journal of Business Logistics, among others. He is also currently serving as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.
His awards and recognitions include the Institute for Supply Management’s Senior Research Fellowship, the John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award, the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Jack Meredith Best Paper Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Operations Management during the last five years. Some of Professor Schoenherr’s teaching awards include the Richard J. Lewis Quality of Excellence Award, the Michigan Campus Compact Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award, and MSU’s Lilly Teaching Fellowship.
Dr. Schoenherr holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Decision Sciences from Indiana University, Bloomington, from where he also obtained his B.Sc. and M.B. He also holds a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) from the European School of Business, Reutlingen University, Germany, and is an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP).
Dr. Sirnivas Talluri, PhD is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. He has more than 20 years of experience teaching courses in the areas of supply chain management, operations management, operations research/management science, and statistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
His research interests include supply risk, buyer-supplier relationships and supply contracts, sustainability in supply chains, technology management, and performance evaluation. His methodological expertise lies in the areas of optimization methods (deterministic and stochastic models), game theory, empirical methods (statistical models), and data envelopment analysis.
Dr. Talluri has ranked as a Top 20 researcher worldwide in terms of the impact of his work in data envelopment analysis and top 1% researcher worldwide in operations management based on publications in elite journals (2013 – 2015). He has more than 95 publications in a variety of top-tier academic journals, including the IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Dr. Talluri was designated as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) in 2019 and also a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics for the year 2016-2017. He was the recipient of the Dean’s Research Excellence Award in 2019, and John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award for outstanding scholarly contributions in 2004. He currently serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal. In addition, he was the Associate Executive Director for POMS from 2006-2009.
Dr. Talluri earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in India in 1989, then M.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Ph.D. in Production and Operations Management from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1992 and 1996, respectively.
Dr. Shawnee Vickery is the Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and a Demmer Legacy Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Management Science from the University of South Carolina. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from East Carolina University.
Her areas of expertise and research interests include supply chain integration, lean manufacturing, health care management, and lean implementation in healthcare.
Dr. Vickery is the recipient of MSU’s William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award (2018) and Teacher-Scholar award and been recognized by Business Week as an outstanding teacher. She is the recipient of the Associate Editor Award from the Journal of Supply Chain Management and recognized as a Decision Sciences Institute Fellow.
Dr. Judith Whipple is the Bowersox-Thull Endowed Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Program, teaching in the full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Master’s and Doctoral programs.
Dr. Whipple’s research interests include supply chain integration and collaboration, supply chain security and risk management, and strategic supply chain management and organizational design.
Dr. Whipple is the recipient of the MSU Teacher Scholar Award for excellence in teaching and research, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Educators’ Conference Teaching Innovation Award, and various best paper awards, including the Journal of Business Logistics Bernard J. La Londe Best Paper Award (2005 and 2010), Transportation Journal Best Paper Award, Journal of Operations Management Best Paper Award and the Stan Hardy Award. For her contribution to the field of supply chain management, she was selected as a DC Velocity Rainmaker. She is a member of APICS/ASCM and part of their Supply Chain STEM Educational Outreach Program.
