Office: RSB 337
Phone: (804) 289-8259
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: naltay@richmond.edu
Website: http://www.richmond.edu/~naltay

Teaching:
Operations Management
Supply Chain Management

Research:
Production Planning and Inventory Control
Management of Spare Parts
Disaster Operations Management

Education:
BS, Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University
MBA, University of Texas-Pan American
PhD, Operations Management, Texas A&M University

Selected Publications:
Issues in disaster-relief logistics, Chapter in Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation (ed. Gad-el-Hak, M.), Cambridge University Press 2008; Exact and Heuristic Solution Approaches for the Mixed Integer Setup Knapsack Problem (with Robinson and Bretthauer) European Journal of Operational Research (2008); A Comparative Study of Modeling and Solution Approaches for the Coordinated Lot-Size Problem with Dynamic Demand (with Gao and Robinson) Mathematical and Computer Modeling (2008); Adapting Wright’s modification of Holt’s method to forecasting intermittent demand (with Rudisill and Litteral) International Journal of Production Economics (2008); Delineating the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ construct within the supplier-customer interface (with Stading) Journal of Supply Chain Management (2007); The SOX-RFID connection (with Taylor) Supply Chain Management Review (2007); OR/MS research in disaster operations management (with Green) European Journal of Operational Research (2006); Improving disaster response efforts with decision support systems (with Green, Lapetina, and Thompson) International Journal of Emergency Management (2006).

Academic and Professional Activities:
Editorial Board Member of the Production and Inventory Management Journal, and the International Journal of Services Sciences; Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science; Decision Sciences Institute; Production & Operations Management Society; The Association for Operations Management (a.k.a. APICS).

Awards:
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by A Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University (2000); Robins School summer research grants; Center for Management & Information Systems, Research Grant (2000); Student Paper Award, 31st Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference (2000); Beta Gamma Sigma