W. C. Benton

W. C. Benton, Jr. is the Edwin D. Dodd Professor of Management and DistinguishedResearch Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Max M. FisherCollege of Business at the Ohio State University. Professor Benton teaches courses in supplychain management to undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral candidates. Dr. Benton receivedhis doctorate in both operations and systems management and quantitative business analysisfrom Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.Ranked number one out of 753 operations management researchers in terms of quality andquantity, Dr. Benton’s vast research and writing accomplishments include more than 180 articlesin the areas of health care performance issues, economics of cardiovascular surgery, purchasingmanagement, inventory control, supply chain management, quality assurance, and materialsmanagement that have appeared in The Encyclopedia of Operations Research, The New EnglandJournal of Medicine, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, American College of Physician Executives, DecisionSciences, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IEE Transactions, EuropeanJournal of Operational Research, Quality Progress, Naval Research Logistics, The Journal of BusinessLogistics, The Journal of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Production and OperationsManagement, Interfaces, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and OperationsManagement, and Healthcare Management Science. Dr. Benton has published five textbooks andhas authored “Bargaining, Negotiations, and Personal Selling” for the Handbook of EconomicPsychology. He currently serves as a senior editor in two departments for the Production andOperations Management Journal and serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of OperationsManagement. He also serves as an associate editor for the Decision Sciences Journal, Journalof Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Business of Service Industries Journal,and International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management; he is a special issue editor forthe European Journal of Operational Research. For the Engineer and Manufacturing and ServiceEnterprise Systems Divisions at the National Science Foundation, he is a research panel member.Professor Benton’s expert contribution to the business and governmental arena includesconsultancy for Grant Hospital, Ashland, IBM, RCA, Frigidaire, the Ohio Departmentof Transportation, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Indiana Department ofTransportation, the South Carolina Department of Transportation, the Alabama Departmentof Transportation, the Kentucky Department of Transportation, the Federal HighwayAdministration, Battelle Institute, the United States Air Force, Gelzer Automated AssemblySystems, Bitronics, the Ohio Bureau of Disability Determination, BioOhio, the CarterGroup Canada, and others.He serves on the board of directors for the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium, theSleep Medicine Foundation, Academic Council for Healthcare Research, the House of Hope,and the Supply Chain Management Research Group. He is a member of the Decision SciencesInstitute, 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 MathematicalAssociation of America, and others.Dr. Benton served with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, MCAS, El Toro, California, andthe 3rd Marine Amphibious Force West Pacific.