John Bartholdi

Director, SCL Center for Warehousing and Distribution

John Bartholdi holds the Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management and the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech. He teaches courses in supply chain issues at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in Georgia Tech's program of industry short courses. Bartholdi's research centers on problems of transportation, warehousing and distribution.

He has taught logistics and supply chain issues at the University of Michigan, the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and the National University of Singapore; and his research in logistics has been supported by the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, Ford Motor Company, Genuine Parts Co., The Home Depot, Manhattan Associates, and FedEx Ground. He won the 1999 Award for Technical Innovation by the Institute of Industrial Engineers and in 2005 was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.

Currently Bartholdi is coordinating an international team studying temperature-controlled supply chains bringing product into the US. This includes installing recording devices to gather temperature histories and then linking those to scans along the supply chain.