Philip M. Kaminsky

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1997
Industrial Engineering and the Management Sciences

4179 Etcheverry Hall
(510) 642-4927
E-mail: kaminskyieor.berkeley.edu

Personal Webpage:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~kaminsky

Phil Kaminsky is an associate professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California , Berkeley . He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 1997. Prior to that, he worked in production engineering and control at Merck and Co. His current research focuses on the analysis and development of robust and efficient techniques for the design and operation of logistics systems and supply chains. He is a co-author of “Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies" (McGraw-Hill, 1999, 2003), which won the Book-of-the-Year Award and Outstanding IIE Publication Award given in 2000, and co-author of “Managing the Supply Chain: the definitive guide for the business professional” (McGraw-Hill, 2004). He is an associate editor of Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research Letters, and IIE Transactions, and has consulted in the areas of production and logistics system control.

Research
  • Analysis of integrated supply chain management models
  • Production scheduling
  • Modeling and analysis of production control and logistics
  • Systems, design and analysis of algorithms
  • Integration of production and distribution strategies
Selected Publications
  • "Production and Distribution Policy in a Two Stage Stochastic Push-Pull Supply Chain" (with H. Ahn) . IIE Transactions 37, pp. 609-621
  • "Due Date Quotation Models and Algorithms" (with D. Hochbaum) in Handbook on Scheduling Algorithms, Methods, and Models, Joseph Y. Leung (ed.), Chapman Hall/CRC
  • "Effective Heuristics For Capacitated Production Planning with Multi-Period Production and Demand With Forecast Band Refinement" (with J. Swaminathan). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6 pp. 184-194
  • "Flow Shop Scheduling with Earliness, Tardiness and Intermediate Inventory Holding Costs" (with K. Bulbul and C. Yano) Naval Research Logistics 51 pp. 407-445.
  • " Production and Distribution Lot Sizing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain" (w/D. Simchi-Levi) IIE Transactions 35 pp. 1065-1075
  • "The Effectiveness of the Longest Delivery Time Rule for the Flow Shop
    Delivery Time Problem" Naval Research Logistics 50 pp. 257-272
  • "Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for the Flow Shop Weighted Completion Time Problem" (with D. Simchi-Levi),Operations Research 46, p. 872-882
  • "The Asymptotic Optimality of the Shortest Processing Time Rule for the Flow Shop Completion Time Problem" (with D. Simchi-Levi), appear Operations Research 49, p293-294.
  • "The Computerized Beer Game: Teaching the Value of Integrated Supply Chain Management" (with D. Simchi-Levi), Supply Chain and Technology Management, Hau Lee and Shu Ming Ng, eds., The Production and Operations Management Society