W. C. Benton, Jr. is the Edwin D. Dodd Professor of Management and Distinguished Research Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. Professor Benton teaches courses in supply chain management to undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral candidates. Dr. Benton received his doctorate in both operations and systems management and quantitative business analysis from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Ranked number one out of 753 operations management researchers in terms of quality and quantity, Dr. Benton's vast research and writing accomplishments include more than 180 articles in the areas of health care performance issues, economics of cardiovascular surgery, purchasing management, inventory control, supply chain management, quality assurance, and materials management that have appeared in The Encyclopedia of Operations Research, The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, American College of Physician Executives, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IEE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Quality Progress, Naval Research Logistics, The Journal of Business Logistics, The Journal of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, and Healthcare Management Science. Dr. Benton has published five textbooks and has authored "Bargaining, Negotiations, and Personal Selling" for the Handbook of Economic Psychology. He currently serves as a senior editor in two departments for the Production and Operations Management Journal and serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Operations Management. He also serves as an associate editor for the Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Business of Service Industries Journal, and International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management; he is a special issue editor for the European Journal of Operational Research. For the Engineer and Manufacturing and Service Enterprise Systems Divisions at the National Science Foundation, he is a research panel member. Professor Benton's expert contribution to the business and governmental arena includes consultancy for Grant Hospital, Ashland, IBM, RCA, Frigidaire, the Ohio Department of Transportation, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Indiana Department of Transportation, the South Carolina Department of Transportation, the Alabama Department of Transportation, the Kentucky Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, Battelle Institute, the United States Air Force, Gelzer Automated Assembly Systems, Bitronics, the Ohio Bureau of Disability Determination, BioOhio, the Carter Group Canada, and others. He serves on the board of directors for the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium, the Sleep Medicine Foundation, Academic Council for Healthcare Research, the House of Hope, and the Supply Chain Management Research Group. He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute of Management Sciences, the Institute of Supply Management, the Production and Inventory Control Society, the Operations Management Association, American Society for Quality Control, Society of Logistics Engineers, the Mathematical Association of America, and others. Dr. Benton served with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, MCAS, El Toro, California, and the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force West Pacific.
