Sunday, November 9, 2014

Professor John J. Bartholdi, III Biography and Contribution



John Bartholdi is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Director of Global Research at The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and holds the Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management.

He teaches courses in supply chain issues at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in Georgia Tech's program of industry short courses.

Bartholdi's research centers on problems of warehousing and distribution.  He is co-author of the book Warehouse & Distribution Science. He is also a founder of the Wine Supply Chain Council
Bartholdi graduated in 1968 with a degree in mathematics from the University of Florida (Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors) and then served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia as a paratrooper in Beach Jumper Unit One of Naval Special Warfare. He returned to complete a Ph.D. in Operations Research, also at the University of Florida. In addition to his current position, he has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, the Shanghai University for Science and Technology, and the National University of Singapore.

He won the 1999 Award for Technical Innovation by the Institute of Industrial Engineers and in 2005 was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.
Bartholdi has been honored to hold additional appointments as Professor Extraordinary of Operations Research in the Department of Logistics, Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa, and as Academic Leader in Industrial Engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Interesting Research


Allocating space in the forward pick area of a distribution center, with S. Hackman, IIE Transactions (Special issue on facility logistics), 40(11):1046-1053
Design of efficient bin-numbering schemes for warehouses by J. Bartholdi and L. Platzman, Material Flow4:247-254.

Using Shapley value to allocate savings in a supply chain, with E. Kemahlioglu Ziya. In Supply Chain Optimization, eds. P. Pardalos and J. Geunes, Kluwer Optimization Series.
The best shape for a crossdock, with K. R. Gue. Transportation Science 38(2):235-244 (2004).
Reducing labor costs in an LTL cross-docking terminal, with K. R. Gue. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 48(6):823-832 (2000).

Scheduling interviews at a job fair, with K. L. McCroan. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 38(6):951-960 (1990).

Decentralized control of automated guided vehicles on a simple loop, with L. K. Platzman; IIE Transactions 21(1):76-81 (1989).


http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/John_Bartholdi/bio.html

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/ie.html

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