Jim Bookbinder

Jim Bookbinder is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and the Director of the Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems (WATMIMS) research group at the University of Waterloo.

He previously served as President of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and as Chair of the Transportation Science and Logistics Section of INFORMS. Prior to joining UWaterloo, Dr. Bookbinder was a part-time Lecturer at the University of Toronto, and also had approximatively 10 years of industrial experience.

Dr. Bookbinder has research interests in applied operations, logistics and inventory management, and modes of transport and transportation systems. His research has allowed him to work with different industry leaders, such as the Canadian Tire Corporation, CN North America, Ford Motor Company of Canada, General Motors of Canada, Revlon of Canada and Toronto Transit Commission. In addition to his research work, Dr. Bookbinder also wrote the book Handbook of Global Logistics: Transportation in International Supply Chains, as well as several articles regarding business and transportation management.

• Logistics

• Supply Chain Management

• Inventory Management

• Freight Transportation

• Shipment Consolidation

• Routing

• Production

• Manufacturing

• Distribution

• Simulation

• Optimization

• Advanced Manufacturing

• Analytics

• Operations Research

• Data Analytics Research

Industrial experience includes: Director, Operations Research, Toronto Transit Commission, 1978-1982 / Management Science Analyst, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 1975-1978 / Consultant, Peat, Marwick and Partners (now KPMG), Toronto, 1974-1975.

• 1974, Master's Economics and Finance, University of Toronto, Canada

• 1969, Doctorate Applied Mathematics, University of California - San Diego, USA

• 1967, Master's Physics, University of California - San Diego, USA

• 1964, Bachelor's Mathematics , San Diego State University, USA

• 2024 CORS Award of Merit

• 0000 CORS Service Award

• 0000 Gold Medal Award, Canadian Operational Research Society

• MSCI 334 - Operations Planning and Inventory Control
  • Taught in 2024
• MSCI 431 - Stochastic Models and Methods
  • Taught in 2022, 2023
• MSCI 434 - Supply Chain Management
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• MSCI 452 - Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• MSCI 633 - Production and Inventory Management
  • Taught in 2021, 2023
• MSCI 709 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Taught in 2022, 2024

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