Office: RBC 469 Phone: 610-758-4433 Email: zgz208@lehigh.edu Supply Chain Operations Management

Department of Management:  Assistant Professor

Education
-  University of Calgary, B.S.
-  University of Alberta, M.B.A.
-  University of Tennessee, Ph.D. 

Zach G. Zacharia teaches classes in Supply Chain Operations and Logistics and Transportation.  Prior to his appointment at Lehigh University, he served on the faculty at Texas Christian University where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Analytical Tools and Logistics and Transportation. 

Professor Zacharia’s publications include five articles in the Journal of Business Logistics, the leading journal in the Logistics field.  Other research articles include publications in the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Vehicle Design, Marketing Management and Wall Street Journal.  Book chapters include three chapters in Supply Chain Management and a chapter in Managing Innovation: The New Competitive Edge for Logistics Service Providers. His current research interests include Knowledge Management and Collaboration within the Supply Chain, Logistics Strategy and the Financial Implications of Supply Chain Management.

Prior to joining academia, Zacharia worked for the Department of Transportation in Alberta, Canada, for ten years as an equipment engineer and at the University of Tennessee, Center for Transportation Research, for six years as an Associate Director.  He is a principal in BZS Consulting, the focus of which is on evaluating collaboration and procurement strategies across firms in a supply chain.

Among the awards he has received are the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award (2000) from the University of Arkansas, the Outstanding Student Paper Award (2000) from the Society for Marketing Advances and the Best Paper Award (2007) from North American Research/Teaching Symposium on Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.

Research Interests

• Knowledge Management and Collaboration within the Supply Chain
• Logistics Strategy
• Financial Implications of Supply Chain Management

Publications and Working Papers

• Zach G. Zacharia, Nancy W. Nix and Robert F. Lusch, (Forthcoming) “An Analysis of Supply Chain Collaborations and Their Effect on Performance” Journal of Business Logistics.
• Chad W. Autry, Zach G. Zacharia  and Charles W. Lamb, (Forthcoming) “A Logistics Strategy Taxonomy” Journal of Business Logistics.
• Zach G. Zacharia and John T. Mentzer (2007) “The Role of Logistics in New Product Development,” Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp 83-110.
• Zach G. Zacharia and John T. Mentzer (2004) “Logistics Salience In A Changing Environment,” Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp 187-210.   

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