Don Warsing

Dr. Don Warsing Don Warsing is an Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Business Management at NC State University. His research focuses on two major themes: (1) the effective management of supply chain activities across customer-supplier dyads, and (2) the strategic use of flexibility—potentially to take advantage of information that develops over time—in managing supply chain activities. Recent work of Professor Warsing has appeared in the European Journal of Operational Research. A native of Cleveland, OH, Professor Warsing received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University and a Master of Science in Management, with a concentration in Industrial Engineering, from NC State. His Ph.D. in Operations Management was received from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2000. Prior to pursuing the Ph.D. degree, Professor Warsing worked for seven years with IBM Corporation in Research Triangle Park, NC and held positions in areas spanning from Industrial Engineering to Materials Logistics to Manufacturing Management in both the Communications Systems and Personal Computing Divisions. While a Ph.D. student at UNC, Warsing’s paper, “Toward the Virtual Supply Chain: New Opportunities for Air Logistics,” won an Outstanding Paper Award in the 1997 Air Logistics Industry Research Competition, sponsored by The International Air Cargo Association. Professor Warsing was previously an Assistant Professor in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in supply chain management, logistics modeling, and operations strategy. At NC State, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the management of business processes and the management of logistics and physical flows in the supply chain. In Warsing’s view, the ultimate litmus test of any research in business disciplines is its relevance to managerial practice. Thus, while at Penn State, Professor Warsing was an active affiliate of the Center for Supply Chain Research and enjoyed the many interactions and engagements with corporate sponsors that this affiliation provided. He remains actively involved in a company-sponsored research project with a Penn State faculty colleague and a Ph.D. student to better understand the effects of various planning coordination mechanisms on the performance of “outsourced” supply chains, those composed of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), its contract manufacturer (CM), and the CM’s suppliers. Professor Warsing has mentored student research projects at all levels—BSBA, MS (both Logistics and Industrial Engineering), and Ph.D. This supports his goal of effectively tying research efforts to teaching and learning to the greatest extent possible.