Phil Kaminsky

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1777

Tel: (510) 642-4927

Fax: (510) 642-1403

Email: kaminsky{at}ieor.berkeley.edu

I am an associate professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. My research interests include analysis of integrated supply chain management models, production scheduling, modeling and analysis of production control and logistics systems, design and analysis of algorithms, and integration of production and distribution strategies. I am also interested in the use of computerized games to teach important supply chain management concepts.

I have a BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in New York, NY. I worked for several years in the manufacturing division of Merck and Co., before going to the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to get my Ph.D.

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Books

Designing and Managing the Supply Chain

The recent third edition of this book (co-authored with D. Simchi-Levi and E. Simchi-Levi) expands significantly on previous editions. Published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill.

Business 2.0, December 2001, names this book the best source for slashing time and costs and increasing productivity in the supply chain.
Winner of the 2000 IIE Book-of-the-Year Award, and the 2000 Outstanding IIE Publication Award.

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Managing the Supply Chain: The Definitive Guide for the Business Professional

This book, co-authored with D. Simchi-Levi and E. Simchi-Levi, is intended to serve as a reference for consultants and managers involved in any one of the processes that make up the supply chain. Published by McGraw-Hill.

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Software

I am interested in developing software tools for teaching. Most of the software I have developed including the Computerized Beer Game is now included on the CD that comes with the textbook Designing and Managing the Supply Chain.

Courses

IEOR 153: Logistics Network Design and Supply Chain Management

IEOR 180: Senior Project

IEOR 290L: Logistics Modeling

IEOR 251: Facilities Design and Logistics

IEOR 199: Supply Chain Management

IEOR 250: Introduction to Production Planning and Logistics Models

Publications

Working and Submitted Papers

AHN, H., M. GUMUS AND P. KAMINSKY. 2008. Inventory, Discounts, and the Timing Effect. Submitted for publication.

GUO, X, P. KAMINSKY, P. TOMECEK, AND M. YUEN. 2007. Optimal Spot Market Inventory Strategies in the Presence of Cost and Price Risk. Submitted for publication.

Papers and Chapters

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. KAYA. 2008. Scheduling and Due-Date Quotation in a MTO Supply Chain. To appear in Naval Research Logistics.

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. KAYA. 2008. Combined Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock Supply Chains. To appear in IIE Transactions.

KAMINSKY, P. AND Z-H. LEE. 2008. Effective On-Line Algorithms for Reliable Due Date Quotation and Large-Scale Scheduling. Journal of Scheduling 11, pp. 187-204.

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. KAYA. 2008. Inventory Positioning, Scheduling, and Lead Time Quotation in Supply Chains. International Journal of Production Economics 114, pp. 276-293.

AHN, H., M. GUMUS AND P. KAMINSKY. 2007. Pricing and Manufacturing Decisions When Demand is a Function of Prices in Multiple Periods. Operations Research 55, pp. 1039-1057.

BULBUL, K, P. KAMINSKY, AND C. YANO. 2007. Preemption in Single Machine Earliness/Tardiness. Journal of Scheduling 10, pp. 271-292.

AHN, H. AND P. KAMINSKY. 2005. Production and Distribution Policy in a Two-Stage Stochastic Push-Pull Supply Chain. IIE Transactions 37, pp. 609-621.

NEWMAN, A, C. YANO, AND P. KAMINSKY. 2005. Third Party Logistics Planning with Routing and Inventory Costs. In Supply Chain Optimization, J. Geunes and P. Pardalos, eds: Kluwer Academic Publishers

KAMINSKY, P. AND D. HOCHBAUM. 2004. Due Date Quotation Models and Algorithms. Handbook of Scheduling, Joseph Y. Leung (ed.), Chapman Hall/CRC.

KAMINSKY, P. AND J. SWAMINATHAN. 2004. Effective Heuristics For Capacitated Production Planning with Multi-Period Production and Demand With Forecast Band Refinement. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6, p. 184-194.

BULBUL, K, P. KAMINSKY, AND C. YANO. 2004. Flow shop scheduling with earliness, tardiness, and intermediate inventory holding costs. Naval Research Logistics 51, pp. 407-445.

SIMCHI-LEVI, D., P. KAMINSKY, AND E. SIMCHI-LEVI. 2004. Managing the Supply Chain: The Definitive Guide for The Business Professional. McGraw-Hill: New York.

KAMINSKY, P. 2003. The Effectiveness of the Longest Delivery Time Rule for the Flow Shop Delivery Time Problem. Naval Research Logistics 50, pp. 257-272.

KAMINSKY, P. AND D. SIMCHI-LEVI. 2003. Production and Distribution Lot Sizing in a Two Stage Supply Chain. IIE Transactions 35(11), pp.1065-1074.

KAMINSKY, P. AND J. SWAMINATHAN. 2001. Utilizing Forecast Band Refinement For Capacitated Production Planning. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3, p. 68-81.

KAMINSKY P. AND D. SIMCHI-LEVI. 2001. Asymptotic Analysis of an On-line Algorithm for the Single Machine Completion Time Problem With Release Dates. Operations Research Letters. 29, p. 141-148

KAMINSKY P. AND D. SIMCHI-LEVI. 2001. The Asymptotic Optimality of the SPT Rule for the Flow Shop Mean Completion Time Problem. Operations Research 49, p. 293-304

SIMCHI-LEVI, D., P. KAMINSKY, AND E. SIMCHI-LEVI. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. Irwin McGraw-Hill: New York.

First Edition (2000)

Second Edition (2003)

Third Edition (2008)

KAMINSKY, P. AND D. SIMCHI-LEVI. 1998. A New Computerized Beer Game: A Tool For Teaching the Value of Integrated Supply Chain Management. In Supply Chain and Technology Management. Hau Lee and Shu Ming Ng, eds., The Production and Operations Management Society: Miami, Florida.

KAMINSKY, P. AND D. SIMCHI-LEVI. 1998. Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for the Flow Shop Weighted Completion Time Problem. Operations Research 46, p. 872-882

Proceedings

GUMUS, M., P. KAMINSKY, E. TIEMROTH AND M. AYIK. 2008. A Multi-stage Decomposition Heuristic for the Container Stowage Problem. Proceedings of the 2008 MSOM Conference.

HAMZEH, F., TOMMELEIN, I.D., BALLARD, G., and KAMINSKY, P. 2007. Logistics Centers to Support Project-based Production in the Construction Industry. In Pasquire, C.L. and Tzortzopoulos, P. (editors)(2007). Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 15), 18-20 July 2007, East Lansing, MI.

AHN, H-S, O. ALPER AND P. KAMINSKY. 2006. Effective Distribution Policies Utilizing Logistics Contracting. Proceedings of the 2006 MSOM Conference.

KAMINSKY, P. AND H-S AHN. 2006. Models and Algorithms for Integrated Multi-Stage Production/Distribution Systems: Third Party Logistics. Proceedings of the 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research Conference.

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. Kaya. 2006. MTO-MTS Production Systems in Supply Chains. Proceedings of the 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research Conference.

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. KAYA. 2005. Career: Scheduling of Large Scale Systems: Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for Due Date Quotation. Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research Conference.

KAMINSKY, P., H-S AHN, AND O. ALPER. 2005. Models and Algorithms for Integrated Multi-Stage Production/Distribution Problems. Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research Conference.

KAMINSKY, P. AND O. KAYA. 2005. Centralized Versus Decentralized Scheduling and Due Date Quotation in a Make-to-Order Supply Chain. Proceedings of the 2005 MSOM Conference.

KAMINSKY, P. AND Z-H. LEE. 2003. On-Line Algorithms for Due Date Quotation with Lateness Penalties. Proceedings of the 2003 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research Conference.

CHAN, A., P.KAMINSKY, A.MURIEL, AND D.SIMCHI-LEVI. 1996. New Results for Flowshop and Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems. Proceedings of the 1996 MSOM Conference, Hanover, New Hampshire, pp.213-218.

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