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Matthew A. Waller
Professor, Logistics
Garrison Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management
Sam M. Walton College of Business
Office: WCOB 308
PH: (479) 575-8741
mwaller@walton.uark.edu

 

Recent Publications

 Waller, M.A., Williams, B.D., Tangari, A.H., & Burton, S.
        (Forthcoming 2009). Marketing at the retail shelf: An
        exploration of moderating effects of logistics on SKU
        market share. Journal of the Academy of Marketing
        Science.
 
Nachtmann, H., Waller, M.A., & Rieske, D.W. (Forthcoming).
        The impact of point-of-sale data inaccuracy and inventory
        record data errors. Journal of Business Logistics. 
 
Williams, B.D. & Waller, M.A. (Forthcoming). Creating order
        forecasts: POS or order history? Journal of Business
        Logistics.

Degrees

  • BS, University of Missouri, Columbia, Economics
  • MS, Pennsylvania State University, Management Science
  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Business Logistics

Teaching Areas

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Business Logistics
  • Supply Chain Modeling

Research Interests

  • Retail and Consumer Products Supply Chain Management
  • Global Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Decision Making, Ethics, and Sustainability

Mailing Address:

Matthew Waller
Department of Marketing and Logistics
Sam M. Walton College of Business
302 Business Building
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR  72701-1201


Professor Matthew A. Waller is the Garrison Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.  Dr. Waller’s research focuses on retail and consumer products supply chain management as well as global supply chain management.   Since his first publication in 1990, his research has been published in journals such as Decision Sciences, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Economics and many others.  He has published opinion pieces in Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal Asia.

He is an inventor on a patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, involving replenishment, assortment, and space optimization:  Waller, M.A. and Dulaney, E.F. System, Method and Article of Manufacture to Optimize Inventory and Merchandising Shelf Space Utilization, Patent No. US 6,341,269 B1, Date of Patent Jan. 22, 2002. 

Since January of 2006, he has been Systems Editor of Journal of Business Logistics and since 2007 he has been editor of International Journal of Logistics Management.  From January 2008 to June 2009 he lived in Shanghai, China, conducting research on global business in China as well as running an Executive MBA cohort for the Sam. M. Walton College of Business.  He is a member of CSCMP and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, China.

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