
E-mail Address
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Fred Easton
Professor of Supply Chain Management
(315) 443-3463
Room 517 Marketing Whitman School of Management ffeaston@syr.edu
PhD (operations management), University of Washington
Research Interests Professor Easton's research focuses on capacity and demand management issues in both service and manufacturing organizations. He serves as faculty advisor to the student chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), and is on the editorial review board for two professional journals. He also advises practicing managers in industries ranging from auto manufacturing and energy to health and emergency services, and holds a position on the Board of Directors for APICS CNY.
Selected Publications "Optimizing Service Attributes: The Seller's Utility Problem," (with M. Pullman), Decision Sciences, 32(2), 251-275, 2001.
"Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Deterministic and Stochastic Labor Scheduling Problems," (with N. Mansour), European Journal of Operational Research,118(3), 1999, 502-523.
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