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Jon Jackson’s Three Minute Thesis


Quantity Discounts, Capacity Decisions, and Channel Structure Choices in Supply Shains

 

Inventory management has been, and remains a critical component of successful business practice for most firms. Purchasing managers face many challenges when determining their procurement strategy, especially when facing quantity discounts. Through the use of two managerial surveys, this research identifies several areas for future quantity discount research to help bring together the current academic literature and the needs of practitioners from both buyers’ and suppliers’ perspectives. His research results may also help purchasing managers make appropriate procurement decisions when ordering multiple products simultaneously, each with their own quantity discount schedule and with the presence of a common resource constraint (e.g., warehouse space).

About Jon

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Jonathan Jackson is pursuing a Ph.D. in operations management. As a graduate student, Jonathan has been honored with two Graduate Student Outstanding Independent Instructor awards; one university-wide and the other from the Carson College of Business. He has taught at the undergraduate level in operations management as well as business statistics. His research interests focus on inventory and capacity management as well as sourcing and procurement within the broader field of supply chain management. He is a diehard Cougar fan. He earned his B.S. in materials science and engineering with a minor in mechanical engineering from Washington State University. He will begin his career as an assistant professor at Providence College in fall 2015.