Senior Strategist: Arnold Maltz
Dr. Arnold Maltz is a Senior Strategist specializing in Transportation and Supply-Chain
Management. Dr. Maltz spent 12 years in commercial transportation and industrial
distribution before obtaining his Ph.D. in Business Logistics from the Ohio State
University. In the commercial sector, his primary responsibilities included
cost analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and operations analysis of corporate distribution
systems. Dr. Maltz played a leading role in special projects including
the integration analysis of distribution organizations for a merger, adjusting
price brackets for transportation costs, and evaluating and installing software
systems. He is a Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W. P.
Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and has provided consultations
for industry leading multinational corporations.
Since 1991, Dr. Maltz has taught and done research in transportation, logistics,
and operations. He has been particularly active in logistics outsourcing
and third party logistics studies where his work has won national awards. Professor
Maltz has consulted on transportation and network issues for an electric utility,
a semiconductor manufacturer, and an association of suppliers to the oil and
gas industry in New Mexico. He is part of an ongoing effort to coordinate
global benchmarking for the Semiconductor Logistics Forum, and is being funded
to research decision analysis techniques for the selection and location of global
contract manufacturing capacity for a major computer manufacturer. Dr.
Maltz has also taught logistics in the Arizona State University Online M.B.A. program
for Deere & Co. and Lucent Technologies.