Michael Fry
Professional Summary
Professor Fry is an associate professor of operations and business analytics. He earned his PhD in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. He has previously been a visiting professor in The Johnson School at Cornell University, and he is on sabbatical for the 2011-2012 academic year to the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
His research interests are in supply chain analytics, sports analytics and public policy operations. In particular, Dr. Fry applies quantitative methods to
improving supply chain operations such as logistics systems and inventory planning. In public
policy operations, he has examined issues related to staffing levels for first responders and
improving voting operations; in sports analytics, he examines methods to improve decision
making in sports with a particular emphasis on sports drafts.
Contact Information
Phone:
513-556-0404
Fax:
513-556-5499
Teaching Interest
- Professor Fry teaches classes at the undergraduate, MBA and PhD levels. He most often teaches classes in supply chain management, inventory, and core operations. He has also taught in both the full-time and executive-MBA programs in The Johnson School at Cornell University. In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural Daniel J. Westerbeck Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
Organization:
University of British Columbia
Title:
Visiting Professor, Sauder School of Business
Organization:
Optilytics, LLC
Title:
Co-owner
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Title:
Associate Professor, Department of Operations & Business Analytics
Organization:
Cornell University
Title:
Visiting Associate Professor, The Johnson School
End Date:
2011-07-31
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Title:
Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations
End Date:
2008-08-31
Description
Director of Graduate Certificate in Operations Excellence.
Dates:
2011-01-01
Name:
Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Graduate Teaching Award Nominee
Year Received:
2011
Organization:
INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Service and Needs
Name:
Best Paper Prize, 2nd Place
Year Received:
2011
Name:
Elected to Supply Chain Thoughtleaders Council
Year Received:
2010
Organization:
INFORMS
Name:
Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice Finalist
Year Received:
2008
Organization:
Cincinnati/Dayton INFORMS Chapter
Name:
INFORMS Outstanding Young Member Award
Year Received:
2007
Name:
Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Graduate Teaching Award Nominee
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
Production and Operations Management Society
Name:
POMS Emerging Scholars Participant
Year Received:
2007
Name:
University Merit Bonus Award for Teaching Performance
Year Received:
2007
Name:
Scholar Exchange Participant, Audencia University
Year Received:
2007
Name:
Daniel J. Westerbeck Junior Faculty Graduate Teaching Award
Year Received:
2006
Name:
Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominee
Year Received:
2006
Name:
University Merit Bonus Award for Research Performance
Year Received:
2006
Name:
Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominee
Year Received:
2005
Name:
INFORMS Young Researchers Roundtable Member
Year Received:
2003
Name:
Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Graduate Teaching Award Nominee
Year Received:
2002
Organization:
This is the highest honor that the University of Michigan Graduate School bestows upon Ph.D. Candidates
Name:
Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship Nominee
Year Received:
2001
Name:
INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium
Year Received:
2000
Name:
MSOM Student Paper Competition Finalist
Year Received:
2000
Name:
Intel Foundation Graduate Fellow
Year Received:
1999
Name:
Graduate Assistant in the Area of National Needs Fellow
Year Received:
1998
Name:
University of Michigan Dean’s Fellow
Year Received:
1997
Organization:
University of Michigan
Major:
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Dissertation:
Cooperation and Collaboration in the Supply Chain
Completed:
2002
Degree:
Ph D
Organization:
University of Michigan
Major:
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Completed:
1998
Degree:
MS
Organization:
Texas A&M University
Major:
Industrial Engineering
Completed:
1996
Degree:
BS
Published Contributions
Title:
Transfreight Reduces Costs and Balances Workload at Georgetown Crossdock
Author(s):
Rosales, Claudia
Fry, Michael
Fry, Michael
Publisher:
Interfaces
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Vendor-Managed Inventory
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Year Published:
2011
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Title:
An Agent-Based Stochastic Ruler Approach for a Knapsack Problem with Sequential Competition
Page(s):
598-609
Author(s):
Ohlmann, Jeffrey
Gibson, Matthew
Fry, Michael
Gibson, Matthew
Fry, Michael
Year Published:
2010
Publisher:
Computers & Operations Research
Title:
What are the Odds? A Structred Approach for Unstructured Problems
Page(s):
45-52
Author(s):
Bailey, Matthew
Fry, Michael
Fry, Michael
Year Published:
2010
Publisher:
INFORMS Transactions on Education
Title:
Are All Queues Created Equal?
Page(s):
3140-3149
Author(s):
Yang, Muer
Fry, Michael
Kelton, David
Fry, Michael
Kelton, David
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings
Title:
Route Design for Delivery of Voting Machines in Hamilton County, Ohio
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Ohlmann, J.
Ohlmann, J.
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
Interfaces
Title:
Transfreight Reduces Costs and Balances Workload at Georgetown Crossdock
Page(s):
316-328
Author(s):
Rosales, Claudia
Fry, Michael
Radhakrishnan, Rajesh
Fry, Michael
Radhakrishnan, Rajesh
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
Interfaces
Title:
Retail Price Markup Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains
Page(s):
277-292
Author(s):
Liu, Y.
Fry, Michael
Raturi, Amit
Fry, Michael
Raturi, Amit
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
European Journal of Operations Research
Title:
Vendor-Managed Inventory and the Effect of Channel Power
Page(s):
195-228
Author(s):
Bichescu, B.
Fry, Michael
Fry, Michael
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
OR Spectrum
Title:
Workload Balancing through Recurrent Subcontracting
Page(s):
33-47
Author(s):
Bichescu, Bogdan
Fry, Michael
Polak, George
Fry, Michael
Polak, George
Year Published:
2009
Publisher:
Production and Operations Management
Title:
A Numerical Analysis of Supply Chain Performance under Split Decision Rights
Page(s):
358-379
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Bichescu, B.
Bichescu, B.
Year Published:
2008
Publisher:
Omega
Title:
Teaching Problem Solving Techniques to MBA Students through Supply Chain Management
Page(s):
65-74
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Year Published:
2008
Publisher:
INFORMS Transactions on Education
Title:
Vehicle Routing in a Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain
Page(s):
352-370
Author(s):
Ohlmann, J.
Fry, Michael
Thomas, B.
Fry, Michael
Thomas, B.
Year Published:
2008
Publisher:
Transportation Science
Title:
A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Lundberg, A.
Ohlmann, J.
Lundberg, A.
Ohlmann, J.
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Temporary Absences and Wastage
Page(s):
353-365
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Magazine, Michael
Rao, Uday
Magazine, Michael
Rao, Uday
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
Operations Research
Title:
Vertically Restrictive Pricing in Supply Chains with Price Dependent Demand
Page(s):
485-501
Author(s):
Liu, Y.
Fry, Michael
Raturi, Amit
Fry, Michael
Raturi, Amit
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
Naval Research Logistics
Title:
Coordinating Production and Delivery Under a (z, Z)-type Vendor Managed Inventory Contract
Page(s):
151-173
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Kapuscinkski, R.
Olsen, T.
Kapuscinkski, R.
Olsen, T.
Year Published:
2001
Publisher:
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Title:
Vendor Managed Inventory in a Production Constrained Setting
Page(s):
325-351
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Kapuscinski, R.
Olsen, T.
Kapuscinski, R.
Olsen, T.
Year Published:
2001
Publisher:
New Directions in Supply-Chain Management: Technology, Strategy, and
Research in progress
Title:
Allocation Policies for Direct-Recording Electronic Voting Machines to Maximize Equity
Description:
Developing models for allocating direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines to election precincts.
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Carbon Footprint for Sustainability
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
ICU-Bed Resource Allocation Policies
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Logistics Systems
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Searching for Momentum in the NFL
Title:
Teaching OR through SpORts Analytics
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Charlotte, NC
Title:
The ICU Will See You Now: Efficient-Equitable Admission Control Policies for a Hospital ICU with Batch Arrivals
Organization:
University of British Columbia
Location:
Vancouver, BC
Year:
2011
Title:
Multi-Period Modeling of Two-way Price Commitment under Price-Dependent Demand
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
OSU, Columbus, OH
Year:
2011
Year:
2010
Title:
Equality before the Voting Queues
Organization:
Decision Sciences Institute
Location:
San Diego
Year:
2010
Title:
Simulation-Optimization Methods for Resource Allocation to Achieve Equity
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Austin, Texas
Year:
2010
Title:
Voting Machine Allocation to Achieve Equity
Organization:
Production and Operations Management Society
Location:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Year:
2010
Title:
Searching for Momentum in the NFL
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
San Diego, CA
Year:
2009
Title:
Election Day 2008: Applying Operations Research to Voting Systems
Organization:
Cornelll University
Location:
Ithaca, NY
Year:
2008
Title:
Route Design for Delivery of Voting Machines in Hamilton County, Ohio
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Washington, DC
Year:
2008
Title:
Determining Optimal Firefighter Staffing Levels
Organization:
Cornelll University
Location:
Ithaca, NY
Year:
2008
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Supply Chains
Location:
Tuscaloosa, AL
Year:
2008
Title:
Optimal Inbound Trailer Allocation at a Crossdock-Optimizing Operations and Balancing Workload
Organization:
University of Cincinnati
Location:
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Year:
2008
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Supply Chains
Organization:
University of Tennessee
Location:
Knoxville, TN
Year:
2008
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Supply Chains
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Dayton, OH
Year:
2007
Title:
Vendor-Managed Inventory and Other Collaborative Agreements
Organization:
Audencia University
Location:
Nantes, France
Year:
2007
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Supply Chains
Organization:
Audencia University
Location:
Nantes, France
Year:
2007
Title:
Optimal Inbound Trailer Allocation at a Crossdock-Optimizing Operations and Balancing Workload
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Seattle, WA, USA
Year:
2007
Title:
Route Designs for Lean Production Systems
Location:
Puerto Rico
Year:
2007
Title:
Defining Research Expectations for New Faculty Members
Location:
Dallas, TX
Year:
2007
Title:
Workload Balancing Through Subcontracting
Location:
Dallas, TX
Year:
2007
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Year:
2007
Title:
Vehicle Routing for Lean Supply Chains
Location:
University of Florida
Year:
2007
Title:
Workload Balancing Through Subcontracting: Applications of Fourier Analysis and Goal
Location:
Boston, MA
Year:
2006
Title:
A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA
Year:
2006
Title:
Route Design for Delivery of Voter Polling Booths in Hamilton County, OH
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA
Year:
2006
Title:
Workload Balancing Through Subcontracting: Applications of Fourier Analysis and Goal
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA
Year:
2006
Title:
Vehicle Routing in a Lean Production System
Location:
Montreal, Canada
Year:
2006
Title:
Workload Balancing Through Subcontracting: Applications of Fourier Analysis and Goal Programming
Location:
Boston, MA
Year:
2006
Title:
The Effect of Price Commitment Timing in Decentralized Supply Chains
Location:
Evanston, IL
Year:
2005
Title:
Channel Power Analysis under Vendor-Managed Inventory and a General (Q, R) Inventory Policy
Year:
2005
Title:
Decision Making Subject to Risk Perceptions from Extreme Events
Year:
2005
Title:
Ski Industry Pricing: Daily Tickets Versus Season Passes
Year:
2005
Location:
Washington DC
Year:
2005
Title:
The Effect of Price Commitment Timing in Decentralized Supply Chains
Year:
2005
Title:
Examination of a Retailer's Fixed Markup Policy under Price-Dependent Demand
Year:
2005
Title:
General (Q,r) Policies for Decentralized Supply Chains
Year:
2005
Title:
Comparing Supply Chain Performance when Order Quantity and Shipment Frequency are Decision Variables
Year:
2004
Title:
Competitive Season Pass Pricing in the Ski Industry
Year:
2004
Title:
“Channel Performance of Retailer Fixed Mark-up Policy under Price-Dependent Demand
Year:
2004
Title:
Vertically Restrictive Pricing with Price-Dependent Demand
Location:
Banff, Canada
Year:
2004
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh
Year:
2004
Title:
Pricing and Replenishment Coordination through Vertically Restrictive Pricing
Year:
2003
Title:
Shelf Space Allocation for a Single Retailer and Multiple Suppliers
Year:
2003
Title:
The Ski Lift Ticket Pricing Problem
Year:
2003
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
University of Cincinnati
Year:
2003
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
Savannah, GA
Year:
2003
Title:
Cooperating on Demand Forecasts and Inventory Replenishment with Multiple Retailers and Outsourcing
Year:
2002
Title:
Collaborative Supply Chain Agreements: Optimal Policies and Performance
Location:
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Year:
2002
Title:
Adjusting Demand Forecasts with Multiple Retailers under Vendor-Managed Inventory
Location:
Maui, Hawaii
Year:
2001
Title:
Cooperation and Collaboration in the Supply Chain
Year:
2000
Title:
Supply Chain Performance of Vendor-Managed Inventory
Year:
2000
Title:
Design and Effectiveness of Vendor-Managed Inventory Agreements
Location:
Purdue University
Year:
1999
Title:
The State of Graduate Education from a Ph.D. Student Perspective
Year:
1999
Title:
INFORMS Cincinnati Conference
Year:
1999
Title:
The True Costs of Downtime in Flexible and Dedicated Manufacturing Environments
Location:
Traverse City, MI
Year:
1997
