Doug Thomas
Doug Thomas Bio
Faculty
Doug Thomas is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State. Prior to returning to graduate school, Doug worked for C-Way Systems, a software company specializing in manufacturing scheduling.
Doug currently teaches courses in Supply Chain Management and Quantitative Modeling in undergraduate and MBA programs. He is a multiple recipient of the MBA Excellence in Teaching award and a frequent faculty leader in executive development programs. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions in Europe, Asia and North America, including open enrollment programs at Penn State and Georgia Tech as well as custom programs for Accenture, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ingersoll Rand, Pfizer and the U.S. Marine Corps. He has consulted for Accenture, Lockheed Martin, and Florida Power and Light.
His research interests include coordinating production and inventory planning across the extended enterprise and connecting decision models to logistics performance measurement. In addition, Doug is a research associate with the Center for Supply Chain Research where he serves as the faculty director for the Sales and Operations Planning benchmarking consortium. His work has appeared in several academic and practitioner journals in the areas of logistics and operations management, including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology. He serves as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.
