Phone: 504-865-5499
Fax: 504-865-6751
Email: yaksoy@tulane.edu
Professional Experience
Tulane University, A. B. Freeman School of Business
Director, Tulane Consortium for Supply Chain Management,1996-present
Associate Professor of Management, 1995-present
Assistant Professor, 1988-1995
Education
Ph.D., Decision and Information
Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1988
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey,
1983
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey,
1981
Research/Teaching Interests
Strategic Operations Alignment, Supply Chain Management, Total Quality Management,
Service Operations Management, Outsourcing, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Management
Consulting
Publications
"Introduction: Observations on Supply Chain Management," Interfaces,
30, 4, 2000.
"Energy Transportation Corporation Measures the Impact of ISO9002 on Corporate Quality" (with Peter G. Schaedel), Interfaces, 27, 84-92, 1997.
"Measuring the Impact of ISO 9002 Certification on Corporate Quality: An LNG
Tanker Operator's Experience and View," (with Peter G. Schaedel), Proceedings of
GASTECH 96, 17th International LNG/LPG Conference, 1, 2.1-2.13, December 1996.
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"Managing to Teach Consulting," OR/MS Today, 23, 48-49,October 1996.
"Comparative Studies in Interactive Multiple Objective Mathematical Programming," (with Timothy W. Butler and Elliott D.Minor), European Journal of Operational Research, 89, 408-422,1996.
"Ship Reliability Data Banks and Their Uses in Ship Operations Management," (with Bahadir Inozu and Akif A. Bulgak), Transactions of the 1994 Ship Operations, Management and Economics Symposium,Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1.1-1.14, 1994.
"Extensions of Efficient Exact Solution Procedures to Bicriterion Optimization," Combinatorial Optimization, New Frontiers in theTheory and Practice, M. Akgul, H.W. Hamacher, and S. Tufekci (Eds), NATO ASI Series, F 82, 269-270, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,Heidelberg, 1992.
"Using Efficient Feasible Directions in Interactive Multiple Objective Linear Programming," (with Harold P. Benson), Operations Research Letters, 10, 203-209, 1991.
"An Expert System for Academic Counseling," (with Murat Taner and Antonio A. Arroyo), Applied Artificial Intelligence, 5,267-280, 1991.
"A Branch and Bound Algorithm for a Single Item Nonconvex Dynamic Lot Sizing Problem with Capacity Constraints," (with Selcuk S.Erenguc), Computers and Operations Research, 17, 199-210,1990.
"An Interactive Branch and Bound Algorithm for Bicriterion Nonconvex Mixed Integer Programming," Naval Research Logistics, 37, 403-417, 1990.
"Interactive Multiple Objective Decision Making: A Bibliography (1965-1988)," Management Research News, 13, 1-8, 1990.
"Multi-item Inventory Models with Coordinated
Replenishments: A Survey," (with Selcuk S. Erenguc), International Journal of
Operations and Production Management, 8, 63-73, 1988.
Invited reprint appeared in Management Bibliographies andReviews, 14, 5-15, 1988.
Professional Activities
Director: TulaneConsortium for Supply Chain
Management
Editor: Special Issue on Supply Chain Management,Interfaces,
Volume 30, Number 4, July-August 2000
Cluster Chair: Supply Chain Management, INFORMS Conferences,
Seattle (October 1998), San Antonio (November 2000), Miami (May 2001)
>Society Memberships
Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Management Consultants (IMC)
International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
National Retail Federation (NRF)
Supply Chain Council (SCC)
Reviewer
Interfaces, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications , Journal of Optimization
Theory and Applications, Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, Operations
Research, Operations Research Letters, National Science Foundation Grant Proposals.