Faculty - Management Sciences
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W.C. Benton, Jr.
Dean's Distinguished Research Professor
Professor of Operations and Systems Management
| e-mail: | benton.1@osu.edu |
| phone: | (614) 292-8868 |
| fax: | (614) 292-1272 |
| address: | 610 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business 2100 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 |
Education
DBA, Indiana University
MBA, Indiana University
BBA, Texas Christian University
Areas of Expertise
- purchasing and materials management
- manufacturing planning and control
- inventory management
- health care performance issues
- economics of cardiovascular surgery
- supply chain management
Biography
Dr. W.C. Benton is the Edwin D. Dodd Professor of Management and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University where he teaches courses in Purchasing/Supply Management Manufacturing Planning and Control, Operations Analysis, Facility Design and the Business of Healthcare to undergraduates, MBAs and doctoral candidates. Professor Benton received his doctorate in both Operations and Systems Management and Quantitative Business Analysis from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Dr. Benton has published more than one-hundred articles in the areas of purchasing management, inventory control, supply chain management, quality assurance, materials management and healthcare. His textbook entitled Purchasing and Supply Management was released in June 2006. Dr. Benton is also co-author on a book entitled, Construction Supply Management (forthcoming summer 2008). He has been ranked number one out of 753 (quality and quantity) researchers in operations management. In recognition of his high level of research productivity the Fisher College of Business awarded Professor Benton the prestigious Pace Setters research Award. His professional presentations have also taken him to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. Professor Benton was also invited to serve as the Keynote Speaker for an Inventory Control Conference in Japura, India. Some of his research papers have appeared in Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IEE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Quality Progress, and Naval Research Logistics, The Journal of Business Logistics, The International Journal of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Journal of Supply Chain Management, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery among others. Benton authored "Bargaining, Negotiations, and Personal Selling" for the Handbook of Economic Psychology. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Business of Service Industries and serves as a Special Issue Editor for the European Journal of Operational Research. He also serves as a research panel member for the Engineer and Manufacturing Divisions at the National Science Foundation.
Professor Benton has served as a consultant for Ashland, IBM, RCA, Frigidaire, The Ohio Department of Transportation, The Florida Department of Transportation, The Indiana Department of Transportation, The South Carolina Department of Transportation, The Alabama Department of Transportation, The Kentucky Department of Transportation, The Federal Highway Administration, Battelle Institute, Loeb Electric, The United States Air Force, Gelzer Automated Assembly Systems, Bitronics, Inc., The Carter-Group Canada and others. He serves on the board of directors for The Sleep Medicine Foundation, The House of Hope and The Supply Chain Research Group.
He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, The Institute of Management Sciences, The Institute of Supply Management, The Production and Inventory Control Society, the Operations Management Association, American Society for Quality Control, Society of Logistics Engineers,The Mathematical Association of America and others.