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Gérard Cachon
Fred R. Sullivan Professor of Operations and Information Management, Department Chair

Professor Cachon’s research is centered on supply chain management and operations strategy. In particular, he explores the application of novel incentive schemes to enhance supply chain coordination, the use of information technology to improve supply chain inventory management and the role of operations in competitive strategy and dynamics. His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Operations Research, among others. He is the Editor of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and a past President of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS.

He has consulted with a wide range of companies on supply chain management. They include 4R Systems, Ahold, Americold, Campbell Soup, IBM, Medtronic and O’Neill Inc.

In addition to doctoral level courses, he teaches the Supply Chain Core MBA course and an MBA elective on Marketing and Operations Integration. He is the author (along with Christian Terwiesch) of Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management. He is the recipient of several teaching awards.

Before joining the Wharton School in July 2000, Professor Cachon was on the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He received a Ph.D. from The Wharton School in 1995.

Publications

Gérard Cachon, Taylor Randall, Glenn Schmidt (2007), In search of the bullwhip effect, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Gérard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu (2007), On the effects of consumer search and firm entry in a multiproduct competitive market, Marketing Science, Forthcoming

Gérard Cachon, Gurhan Kok (2007), How to (and how not to) estimate the salvage value in the newsvendor model, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 9(3). 276-290

Gérard Cachon, Gurhan Kok (2007), Category management and coordination in retail assortment planning in the presence of basket shopping consumers, Management Science, 53(6). 934-951

Gérard Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang (2007), Obtaining fast service in a queueing system via performance-based allocation of demand., Management Science, 53(3). 408-420.

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Current Research

Gérard Cachon, Pnina Feldman 2008, Pricing Service Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?

Gérard Cachon, Gurhan Kok 2007, Competing manufacturers in a retail supply chain: on contractual form and coordination

Gérard Cachon, Robert Swinney 2007, Purchasing, pricing and quick response in the presence of strategic consumers

Marcelo Olivares, Gérard Cachon 2007, Competing retailers and inventory: an empirical investigation of U.S. automobile dealerships

Gérard Cachon, Marcelo Olivares 2006, Drivers of finished goods inventory performance in the U.S. automobile industry

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Honors And Awards

Miller-Sherrerd teaching award, 2004

Tough, But I’ll Thank You in 5 Years” Award, given by the Wharton Graduate Students Association, 2002

'Fuqua School of Business' Daimler-Chrysler Teaching Award for Innovation and Excellence in an Elective Course, 1999

Executive Education

Executive Development Program

Gérard Cachon
3730 Walnut Street
543 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 573-8743
Fax: (215) 898-3664
cachon@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Supply chain management; incentives in operations management; assortment planning

Last Modified November 11, 2009