Department of Finance and Management Science

Washington State University, USA

Email:munson@wsu.edu

Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., operations management, Washington University, USA

1994 M.S., business administration, operations management concentration, Washington University, USA

Publications (Selected)

1. Gihan Edirisinghe, Charles L. Munson (2024) Strategies for LinkedIn-Based Guest Speaker Recruitment and Establishment of Engaging and Comfortable Classroom Discussions: A Case Study from an Operations Management Course. INFORMS Transactions on Education 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.2022.0044
2. Charles L. Munson, Lan Luo and Xiaohui Huang (2024), "Predictive Global Sensitivity Analysis: Foundational Concepts, Tools, and Applications", Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management: Vol. 17: No. 4, pp 235-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0200000113
3. Edirisinghe, Gihan & Munson, Charles. (2022). Strategic Rearrangement of Retail Shelf Space Allocations: Using Data Insights to Encourage Impulse Buying. Expert Systems with Applications. 216. 119442. 10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119442. 
4. Luo, Vicky & Munson, Charles. (2022). Developing a Supply Chain Stress Test. 10.1007/978-3-031-09183-4_3. 
5. Luo, Vicky & Munson, Charles. (2022). Playing Goldratt’s Dice Game in Large Classes. INFORMS Transactions on Education. 22. 10.1287/ited.2021.0267. 
6. Edirisinghe, Gihan & Munson, Charles. (2022). Strategic Rearrangement of Retail Shelf Space Allocations: Using Data Insights to Encourage Impulse Buying. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.4087605. 
7. Heizer, Jay; Render, Barry; Munson, Chuck. (2020). Operations management : sustainability and supply chain management. Pearson. 
8. Jackson, Jonathan & Munson, Charles. (2019). Common replenishment cycle order policies for multiple products with capacity expansion opportunities and quantity discounts. International Journal of Production Economics. 218. 10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.04.037. 
9. Balasooriya, Narmada & Edirisinghe, Gihan & Munson, Charles. (2018). Analysis of Online Customer Shipping Programs and Policies. 
10. Xu, Xun & Munson, Charles & Zeng, Shuo. (2016). The Impact of E-service Offerings on the Demand of Online Customers. International Journal of Production Economics. 184. 10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.11.012. 
11. Jackson, Jonathan & Munson, Charles. (2016). Shared resource capacity expansion decisions for multiple products with quantity discounts. European Journal of Operational Research. 253. 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.03.024. 
12. Xia, Yu & Chen, Bintong & Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan & Munson, Charles. (2015). Competition and market segmentation of the call center service supply chain. European Journal of Operational Research. 247. 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.027. 
13. Yang, Shilei & Munson, Charles & Chen, Bintong & Shi, Victor. (2015). Coordinating contracts for supply chains that market with mail-in rebates and retailer promotions. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 66. 10.1057/jors.2014.127. 
14. Munson, Charles & Jackson, Jonathan. (2015). Quantity Discounts: An Overview and Practical Guide for Buyers and Sellers. Foundations and Trends® in Technology Information and Operations Management. 8. 1-130. 10.1561/0200000041. 
15. Tian, Zhili, Panos Kouvelis, and Charles L. Munson, “Understanding and Managing Product Line Complexity: Applying Sensitivity Analysis to a Large-Scale MILP Model to Price and Schedule New Customer Orders,” IIE Transactions, 47 (4) (2015), DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2014.916461.
16. Lee, Chieh and Charles L. Munson, “A Predictive Global Sensitivity Analysis Approach to Monitoring and Modifying Operational Hedging Positions,” International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 9(3) (2015), 178-201.
17. Munson, Charles L. and Jonathan Jackson, “Quantity Discounts: An Overview and Practical Guide for Buyers and Sellers,” Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 8(1) (2014), 1-124.
18. Munson, Chuck (ed.), The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM, FT Press: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2013.
19. Kouvelis, Panos, Charles L. Munson, and Shilei Yang, “Robust Structural Equations for Designing and Monitoring Strategic International Facility Networks,” Production and Operations Management, 22(3) (2013), 535-554.
20. Hu, Xiangling, Charles L. Munson, and Stergios Fotopoulos, “Purchasing Decisions under Stochastic Prices: Approximate Solutions for Order Time, Order Quantity and Supplier Selection,” Annals of Operations Research, 201(1) (2012), 287-305.
21. Hu Jianli and Charles L. Munson. (2011) “Improved Profit Functions for Newsvendor Models with Normally Distributed Demand,” International Journal of Procurement Management, 4(1), 20-36.
22. Yang Shilei, Charles L. Munson and Bintong Chen. (August 16, 2010) “Using MSRP to Enhance the Ability of Rebates to Control Distribution Channels,” European Journal of Operational Research, 205(1), 127-135.
23. Charles L. Munson and Jianli Hu. (March 1, 2010) “Incorporating Quantity Discounts and their Inventory Impacts into the Centralized Purchasing Decision,” European Journal of Operational Research, 201(2) 581-592.
24. Sarker Saonee, Charles L. Munson, Suprateek Sarker and Suranjan Chakraborty. “Contribution of Agility to Successful Distributed Software Development,” Chapter 7 in Agility Across Time and Space, Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe, and Pär Ågerfalk
25. Sarker Saonee, Charles L. Munson, Suprateek Sarker and Suranjan Chakraborty. (2009) “Assessing the Relative Contribution of the Facets of Agility to Distributed Systems Development Success: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach,” Special Issue on Agile Systems Development, European Journal of Information Systems, 18, 285-299.