Jim Bookbinder

Jim Bookbinder is a Professor in the Department of Management Sciences, 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

Director, WATMIMS now in eighteenth year/WATMIMS Workshops for Industry: Supply Chain Management-November 2000, May 2001, May 2004/NAFTA Logistics, May 2007/Associate Editor: Transportation Research E, January 1991-Present; Naval Research Logistics, April 1992- present/NSERC Grant Selection Committee (GSC): Chair, Industrial Engineering Committee, 1994-1995/SSHRC GSC: Chair, Committee for Grants on Management, 2004-2005/Member of US National Science Foundation GSC (Production Systems), Feb.2000/ Chair, Transportation Science Section, Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS), 1986-1988/President, Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), 1981-1982.

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 252 - Prob. & Stats for Engineers
  • Taught in 2019
• MSCI 334 - Operations Planning and Inventory Control
  • Taught in 2019, 2024
• MSCI 431 - Stochastic Models and Methods
  • Taught in 2022, 2023
• MSCI 434 - Supply Chain Management
  • Taught in 2020, 2023, 2024
• MSCI 435 - Advanced Optimization Techniques
  • Taught in 2020
• MSCI 452 - Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• MSCI 633 - Production and Inventory Management
  • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2023
• MSCI 709 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• M.A. Ülkü, J.H. Bookbinder and N.Y. Yun. 2024. “Leveraging Industry 4.0 Technologies for Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Evidence from the Extant Literature.” Sustainability, Vol. 16 (3), 1321
• G.Y. Ke and J.H. Bookbinder. 2023. “Emergency Logistics Management for Hazardous Materials with Demand Uncertainty & Link Unavailability.” J. Systems Science & Systems Engineering, Vol. 32, 175-205
• A. Alnaggar, F. Gzara and J.H. Bookbinder. 2021. “Crowdsourced Delivery: A Review of Platforms and Academic Literature.” Omega, Vol. 98, (102139)
• G.Y. Ke, H. Zhang, and J.H. Bookbinder. 2020. “A Dual-Toll Policy for Maintaining Risk Equity in Hazardous Materials Transportation with Fuzzy Incident Rate.” International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 227, (107650)
• Q.-M. He, J.H. Bookbinder, and Q. Cai. 2020. “Optimal Policies for Stochastic Clearing Systems with Time-Dependent Delay Penalties.” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 487-502
• M. Masaeli, S.A. Alumur, and J.H. Bookbinder. 2018. “Shipment Scheduling in Hub Location Problems.” Transportation Research B. Vol. 115, pp. 126-142.
• T.A. Bayley, H. Süral and J.H. Bookbinder. 2018. “A Hybrid Benders Approach for Coordinated Capacitated Lot-sizing of Multiple Product Families with Setup Times.” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 1326-1344.
• S. Elhedhli, Z. Li and J.H. Bookbinder. 2017. “Airfreight Forwarding under System-Wide and Double Discounts.” EURO J. Transportation and Logistics. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 165-183
• J. McPhee, A. Paunonen, T. Ramji and J.H. Bookbinder. 2015. “Implementing Off-Peak Deliveries in the Greater Toronto Area: Costs, Benefits, Challenges.” Transportation Journal, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 473-495
• J.H. Bookbinder. 2015. “Dynamic Control Rules for Conveyor Intersections in a Truck-Assembly Paint Shop,” International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 76, No. 9, pp. 1515-1527.
• J.H. Bookbinder, S. Elhedhli and Z. Li. 2015. “The Air-Cargo Consolidation Problem with Pivot Weight: Models and Solution Methods.” Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 59, pp. 22-32.
• A.G. Robinson and J.H. Bookbinder. 2007. “NAFTA Supply Chains: Facilities Location and Logistics,” International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 179-199.
• Book: J.H. Bookbinder, (Ed.), Handbook of Global Logistics. Springer, 2013.
• Book Chapter: M.U. Shah and J.H. Bookbinder. “Stakeholder Theory and Supply Chains in the Circular Economy.” Circular Economy Supply Chains - From Chains to Systems. Edited by L. Bals, W.L. Tate, L.M. Ellram; Chapter 7, Emerald, April 2022. doi:10.1108/978-1-83982-544-620221007
• Book Chapter: J.H. Bookbinder and M.A. Ülkü, “Freight Transport and Logistics in JIT Systems.” Ch. 10228 in International Encyclopedia of Transportation. Elsevier, 2021
• Book Chapter:J. H. Bookbinder and T.A. Matuk, “Logistics and Transportation in Global Supply Chains: Review, Critique and Prospects.” Chapter 9 (pp. 182-211) in M. Oskoorouchi (Ed.), Tutorials in Operations Research, 2009. DOI: 10.1287/educ. 1090.0059.