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Faculty

Dr. Amit Eynan

Objectives

Develop and implement methodologies to improve performance through better design, planning and control of processes, efficient employment of resources, and identification of new opportunities.

Education

Ph.D. Operations and Manufacturing Management,

Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1994).

M.S. Business Administration,

Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1992).

M.S. Industrial Engineering and Management,

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (1989).

B.S. Industrial Engineering and Management,

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (1984, Cum Laude).

Employment

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Professor of Management Systems (2003-present).

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Associate Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management (1998-2003)

Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management (1993-1998)

Center for System Analysis, Tel Aviv, Israel

Head of System Analysis and Operations (1987-1989)

System Analyst (1984-1987)

Sintel Systems Ltd., Haifa, Israel

Assistant Director of Manufacturing (1983-1984)

S.B.E., Auver s/Oise, France

Industrial Engineer (1983)

Honors/Awards

Highest Quality Rating Citation of Excellence for International recognition of outstanding contribution to the body of knowledge by Anbar Electronic Intelligence (1999).

Marcile and James Reid Professor (1999-2000). Recognition for long term teaching excellence.

Publications

Eynan, A. and Fouque, T., “ Benefiting from the Risk Pooling Effect: Internal (Component Commonality) vs. External (Demand Reshape) Efforts,” International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2005, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 90-99.

Eynan, A. and Fouque, T., “Capturing the Risk Pooling Effect through Demand Reshape,” Management Science, 2003, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 704-717.

Eynan, A., “The Benefits of Flexible Production Rates in the Economic Lot Scheduling Problem,” IIE Transactions, 2003, Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 1057-1064.

Reinus, W.R., Eynan, A., Flanagan, P., Pim, B., Sallee, D.S., and Segrist, J., “A Proposed Scheduling Model to Improve Use of Computed Tomography Facilities,” Journal of Medical Systems, 2000, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 61-76.

Eynan, A., “The Multi Location Inventory Centralization Problem with First Come, First Served Allocation,” European Journal of Operational Research, 1999, Vol. 114, No. 1, pp. 38-49.

Eynan, A. and Kropp, D.H., “Periodic Review and Joint Replenishment in Stochastic Demand Environments,” IIE Transactions, 1998, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 1025-1033.

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “An Analysis of Purchasing Costs as the Number of Products' Components is Reduced,” Production and Operations Management, 1997, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 388-397.

Eynan, A. and Li, C.L., “Lot-Splitting Decisions and Learning Effects,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1997, pp. 139-146.

Eynan, A., “The Impact of Demand's Correlation on the Effectiveness of Component Commonality,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 34, No. 6, 1996, pp. 1581-1602.

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “Component Commonality Effects on Inventory Costs,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1996, pp. 93-104.

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “Assemble to Order and Assemble in Advance in a Single Period Stochastic Environment,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 42, No. 5, 1995, pp. 861-872.

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “Establishing Zones in Single-Command Class-Based Rectangular AS/RS,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1994, pp. 38-46.

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “An Interleaving Policy in Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1993, pp. 1-18.

Rosenblatt, M.J. and Eynan, A., “Deriving the Optimal Boundaries for Class Based Automatic Storage/Retrieval Systems,” Management Science, Vol. 35, No. 12, 1989, pp. 1519-1524.

Work Under Review

Eynan, A. and Kropp, D.H., “Effective and Simple EOQ-like solutions for Stochastic Demand Periodic Review Systems.”

Eynan, A. and Rosenblatt, M.J., “The Impact of Component Commonality on Composite Assembly Policies.”

Journal Activities

Editorial board member:

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Ad-hoc referee:

European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Naval Research Logistics, OMEGA, Operations Research, OPSEARCH, Production and Operations Management, Production planning and Control.

Teaching Activities

I have taught business operations courses for a broad audiences (Executive MBA, full-time MBA, evening (part-time) MBA and BSBA), and was awarded the Reid Professorship in recognition for long-term teaching excellence.

Courses Taught:

Executive MBA

Global Operations Management (MBA230)

Manufacturing Planning and Control (EM 3854)

Health Services Operations Management (HSM950)

Operations and Manufacturing Management (OMM750)

MBA

Operations Management (MBA540)

Operations and Manufacturing Management (OMM5500)

Operations Policy and Strategy (OMM5701)

Operations Analysis (OMM5702)

Operations Planning and Control (OMM554)

Undergraduate

Operations Management (MSYS340)
Operations and Manufacturing Management (OMM356)

Operations Planning and Control (OMM458)

Affiliations

INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)

IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

DSI (Decision Sciences Institute)

POMS (Production and Operations Management Society)

APICS (The Association for Operations Management)

ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives)