John J. BARTHOLDI, III

Director of Global Research, The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute
The Manhattan Associates Professor of Supply Chain Management
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 USA
Voice: (404) 894-3036 Fax: (404) 894-2301
E-mail: john DOT bartholdi AT gatech DOT edu

A scheme by which buses spontaneously coordinate themselves on a route to equalize headways. This is being implemented on the Georgia Tech trolley system.
Warehouse & Distribution Science, a course and textbook.
Bucket brigades, a self-organizing protocol for sharing work on an assembly-line. (This has been especially successful in organizing order-pickers in warehouses.)
Software to visualize, analyze, optimize, warehouse operations (includes slotting).
A routing system you can build in a day on two Rolodex card files. It is based on spacefilling curves and is in use commercially.

ISyE 6202, Warehouse & Distribution Science, meeting August-December 2012 at GT. Portions will be presented in professional education programs in Atlanta (April 2012), Panama (May 2012), and South Africa (TBA).
ISyE 6335, Inventory & Distribution (AKA Supply Chain Engineering 1), meeting August-December 2012 at GT
ISyE 6340, Seminar in Global Supply Chains, meeting January-April 2012 at GT