Professor Rocky Newman is a professor of supply chain management at Miami University. He teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and manufacturing strategy. His research interests include manufacturing strategy, environmental issues in manufacturing, and supply chain management, as well as the implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies. His work has been published in numerous academic journals including International Journal of Production Research, The Journal of Production and Inventory Management, The Journal of Manufacturing Systems, The International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, the Mid-American Journal of Business, The International Journal of Operations and Production Management, The International Journal of Production Economics, The International Journal of Forecasting, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, and The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management. Professor Newman has published several textbooks including: Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers, Instructor's Solutions Manual for Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers, and Operations Management: Active Book. He serves as the faculty advisor to the Miami University Supply Chain Society student organization.

Professor Bryan Ashenbaum is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at Miami University. He completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Arizona State University. Prior to embarking on his academic career, Dr. Ashenbaum has held various positions with Procter & Gamble, Honeywell, NIBCO, and the US Navy. Broadly speaking, Dr. Ashenbaum's primary interest is the changing nature of organizational interfaces and the permeability of organizational boundaries within supply chains. His specific research interests include the integration of supply chain functional areas, the impact of technology adoption on supply chain relationships, and functional outsourcing.

Professor Linda Silver Coley is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and a member of the supply-chain management faculty team at Miami University's Farmer School of Business. Prior to joining Miami, she was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Coley completed her Ph.D. in Marketing, with a Supply Chain Management (SCM) concentration, at the University of Cincinnati. She also holds MS and MBA degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (University of Michigan) and Marketing (Xavier University, Cincinnati), respectively. Dr. Coley has industry experience in both new product development and brand management with Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Drackett; and she is co-owner of QMc-Enterprises, a supply-chain company, dba in Oxford, Ohio as The UPS Store. Coley's primary interest is in interdisciplinary interfaces that converge to understand, create, and deliver value. She teaches B2B marketing and marketing strategy. Her award winning pedagogical work is published in the Case Research Journal; and her award winning empirical research is published in Proceedings of the 18th International Annual IPSERA Conference. Coley's research area of interest is demand driven supply chains, specifically end-to-end consumer-driven supply-networks (topics include: measurement theory, the effects of market orientation on SCM, supply chain leadership competencies, the effects of corporate reputation and equity on interorganizational relationships, and consumer effects of environmentally sustainable disposition initiatives at the end of the supply-chain). She is also a member of the Education Strategies Committee of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) where she served as the Doctorial Dissertation Awards chair for 2008 and 2009.

Professor Lisa M. Ellram (Marketing) is the James Evans Rees Distinguished Professor of Distribution at The Farmer School of Business. Dr. Ellram teaches courses in Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management. She is co-author of Supply Chain Management: From Vision to Action, (Prentice Hall), 2007, and three other books. Her research interests include offshore outsourcing, services supply chain management, sustainable supply chain management and all areas of supply chain cost management.  Professor Ellram has published in a wide variety of academic journals including California Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Supply Chain Management and Journal of Greener Production. She is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining Miami University, Dr. Ellram was the Allen Professor of Business Administration and Chairperson of the Management Department at Colorado State University, and the John and Barbara Bebbling Professor of Business in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She serves on the editorial review boards of several academic journals. Dr. Ellram is a frequent speaker at logistics and supply chain conferences in the US and many countries around the world.

After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in production/operations management, Byron Finch taught briefly at Auburn University and then came to Miami, joining the Farmer School of Business management faculty in 1987 as an assistant professor. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations management and supply chain management and recently chaired the task force to re-design Miami's MBA program and also served as the coordinator of Miami's Supply Chain Management Programs.

Professor Finch's teaching has been recognized with several awards, including nomination for the Associated Student Government Teaching Award, recipient of the Farmer School of Business Effective Educator Award and the NCR Computer Innovation Award. Professor Finch's research specialties include process-oriented production planning and control systems, spreadsheet applications, and utilizing qualitative Internet data for service and product quality improvement. Professor Finch's research has been published in numerous journals including The Academy of Management Journal, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Quality Progress, and Quality Management Journal. Professor Finch has authored twelve books, the most recent of which are Operations Now: Supply Chain Profitability and Performance, 3rd edition (published in English and in Chinese) and Interactive Models for Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Dr. Xiaowen Huang is an assistant professor of supply chain and operations management at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University, Ohio. She received her PhD from the Operations and Management Science Department, University of Minnesota. Dr. Huang teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and operations strategy. Her research interest focuses on investigating how companies can effectively deploy their supply chains, technology, and operations strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Her current research projects span from investigation of the impact of uses of information technologies on supply chain performance in both manufacturing and service settings, to pursuit of theoretical understanding of how mass customization capability can be developed through organizational learning and knowledge management. Her publications appear in Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and other academic journals. She is also a co-author of the first empirical research handbook in the Operations Management field, “Handbook of Metrics for Research in Operations Management: Multi-item Measurement Scales and Objective Items.”

Peter A. Salzarulo is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in Miami University’s Farmer School of Business. He received his PhD from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with concentrations in Operations Management and Decision Sciences. His research investigates supply chain coordination mechanisms and the factors which lead to successful supply chain relationships. He also has an interest in healthcare service operations.

Tom Speh joined the School of Business as a faculty member in the Marketing department in 1976. He specializes in logistics management and supply chain management. During his 35 years at Miami, Tom has been chair of the Marketing Department, Associate Dean of the School of Business and has directed the Warehouse Research Center at Miami University from 1986 to 2000. He is past president of both the Council of Logistics Management and the Warehousing Education and Research Council. Tom is the co-author of Business Marketing Management: B2B, 10th edition, a text used by hundreds of Business schools in the US and around the globe.

Tom has received the Beta Gamma Sigma Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in teaching and the Miami University Alumni Association’s Effective Educator Award. In two consecutive years he was awarded the MBA Professor of the Year Award by the MBA classes of 2006 and 2007. Tom received the Benjamin Harrison Medallion in May, 2008, an award presented to members of Miami's faculty or staff who have made outstanding national contributions to education. It is named for the 1852 Miami graduate who was president of the United States from 1889-1893.Tom is a frequent speaker at logistics and supply chain conferences, and he has been invited to speak in over 18 different countries on a variety of supply chain topics. In 2006 Tom was approved by the European Commission to become a member of the BestLog project's Advisory & Communications Board (ACB). The BestLog project is the European Union's largest coordination activity in logistics. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and Logistics from Michigan State University and an MBA and Bachelor in Business from Miami University.

In the Oxford Community he has served as a volunteer in the emergency room of McCullough-Hyde Hospital for the last eight years and has been a member of the hospital’s Board of Trustees since 2003, and currently serves as Chair of the Board. He has also worked with Habitat for Humanity and as president and member of the board of directors of the Oxford United Way campaign. He is the sponsor of the Thomas Speh Fund with the Oxford Community Foundation, helping to support the speech and hearing needs of the uninsured.