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James Zydiak
Title: Associate Professor
Office #: Maguire Hall (1 E Pearson) - 394
Phone: 312-915-6877
E-mail: jzydiak@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Northwestern University, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, 1989
  • M.S. Yale University, Engineering and Applied Science, 1980
  • B.S. Rutgers University, Electrical Engineering, 1979

Research Interests

  • Operations and Service Management
  • Sports Management
  • Supply Chain Management and Logistics

 

Professional Associations

 

Professional Activities

 

Awards

  • Undergraduate Faculty Member of the Year in 1998-1999 for the School of Business Administration of Loyola University Chicago

Courses Taught

  • ISOM 332 - Operations Management
  • ISOM 338 - Logistics in the Global Economy
  • ISOM/SPRT 339 - Sports Facility Management and Operations 
  • ISOM 383 - Management of Service Operations
  • ISOM 483 - Management of Service Operations
  • ISOM 486 - Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Fixed Cycle Ordering Policies for Capacitated Multiple Item Inventory Systems with Quantity Discounts," Computers and Industrial Engineering, 38(1), 2000 , Co-Authors: F. Guder

"Ordering Policies for Multi-Item Inventory Systems Subject to Multiple Resource Constraints," Computers and Operations Research, 26, 1999 , Co-Authors: F. Guder

"A Further Note on the Fleet Design Problem," The Engineering Economist, 44(2), 1999 , Co-Authors: P. C. Jones

"Inventory Investment, Product Cycles, and the Imperfectly Competitive Firm," International Journal of Production Economics, 54, 1998 , Co-Authors: P. C. Jones and L. N. Moses

"Non-Stationary Ordering Policies for Multi-Item Inventory Systems Subject to a Single Resource Constraint and Quantity Discounts," Computers and Operations Research, 24(1), 1997 , Co-Authors: F. Guder

"Heuristic Approaches to Purchasing Bundles of Multiple Products from Multiple Vendors," Journal of Business Logistics, 18(1), 1997 , Co-Authors: M.G. Van Buer and E.R. Venta

"An Extended Algorithm for Capacitated Multiple Item Ordering with All-Units Quantity Discounts," Opsearch, 33(1), 1996 , Co-Authors: F. Guder and S.S. Chaudhry

"Integrated Production Scheduling, Coordination, and Capacity Investment," The Engineering Economist, 41(2), 1996 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and R.R. Inman

"Non-Stationary Ordering Policies for Multi-Item Inventory Systems Subject to a Single Resource Constraint," Journal of the Operational Research Society, 46(9), 1995 , Co-Authors: F. Guder and S.S. Chaudhry

"Specially Structured Uncapacitated Facility Location Problems," Operations Research, 43(4), 1995 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones, T. Lowe, G. Muller, N. Xu, and Y. Ye

"Vendor Selection with Bundling," Decision Sciences, 26(1), 1995 , Co-Authors: E.C. Rosenthal and S.S. Chaudhry

"Capacitated Multiple Item Ordering with Incremental Quantity Discounts," Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45(10), 1994 , Co-Authors: F. Guder and S.S. Chaudhry

"Vendor Selection with Price Breaks," European Journal of Operational Research, 70(1), 1993 , Co-Authors: S.S. Chaudhry and F.G. Forst

"A Further Note on Parallel Replacement," Naval Research Logistics, 40, 1993 , Co-Authors: W.J. Hopp and P.C. Jones

"The Fleet Design Problem," The Engineering Economist, 38(2), 1993 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones

"Capital Asset Valuation and Depreciation for Stochastically Deteriorating Equipment," The Engineering Economist, 38(1), 1992 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp

"Parallel Machine Replacement," Naval Research Logistics, 38, 1991 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp

"The Supplier Selection Problem: Single vs. Multiple Objective Models," Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, 27(4), 1991 , Co-Authors: S.S. Chaudhry

"A Multicriteria Approach to Allocating Order Quantity Among Vendors," Production and Inventory Management Journal, 32(3), 1991 , Co-Authors: S.S. Chaudhry and F.G. Forst

"Stable Economic Depreciation," Operations Research Letters, 9, 1990 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp

"Generalized Imputed Salvage Values," The Engineering Economist, 35(3), 1990 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp

"Stable Economic Depreciation and Neutral Replacement Decisions," The Engineering Economist, 34(2), 1989 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp

"Stationary Dual Prices and Depreciation," Mathematical Programming, 41, 1988 , Co-Authors: P.C. Jones and W.J. Hopp