Charles R. Sox
Professor of Operations Management and University Chair of Manufacturing Management and OM Program Director
Information Systems, Statistics & Management Science
Office: 343 Alston Hall, 205-348-8992
- Specialty Areas:
- Supply network analysis and design, production planning and scheduling for uncertainty, inventory control, logistics and transportation.
- Education:
- Furman University (B.S.), Cornell University (M.S. and Ph.D.).
- Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
- Dr. Sox has published articles in journals of management science and production/operations management, including Management Science, IIE Transactions, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, and International Journal of Production Economics. He has served as associate editor of Management Science and IIE Transactions and has served on the editorial board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. He was the 1997 and 1999 Outstanding ISE Faculty Member and the 2000 Alumni Engineering Council Senior Faculty Research Award recipient at
Auburn University. He also received the 1997 IIE Transactions Best Paper in Scheduling and Logistics award sponsored by i2 Technologies, Inc. He is the VP of meetings for the Birmingham APICS chapter as well as a member of INFORMS and CSCMP. Dr. Sox is also a faculty mentor for the Supply Chain Leaders in Action Program.
Publications
- Chemmanam, Isaac and Charles R. Sox (2000), Heuristics for the Stochastic Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem, In revision for IIE Transactions.
- Treharne, James T. and Charles R. Sox (2000), Models and Methods for Adaptive Inventory Control, Under review for Naval Research Logistics.
- Treharne, James T. and Charles R. Sox (2002), Adaptive Inventory Control for Non-stationary Demand and Partial Information, Management Science, 48 (5), to appear.
- Treharne, James T. and Charles R. Sox (2000), Adaptive Inventory Control for Partially Observed Non-Stationary Demand, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2 (2), 116-118. Recipient of the Honorable Mention Award in the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society 1999 Student Paper Competition.
- Sox, Charles R. and Yubo Gao (1999), The Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Setup Carry-Over, IIE Transactions, 29 (5), 349-357.
- Sox, Charles R., John A. Muckstadt, R. Alan Bowman, and Peter L. Jackson (1999), A Review of the Stochastic Lot Scheduling Problem, International Journal of Production Economics, 62, 181-200.