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Ron Tibben-Lembke is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Nevada, and Director of the Summer Logistics Internship Program. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University, and his undergraduate degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Ron is co-author, with Dr. Dale Rogers, of "Reverse Logistics for Competitive Advantage," a forthcoming CSCMP Explores publication, and "Going Backwards: Reverse Logistics Trends and Practices," published by the Reverse Logistics Executive Council.
His reverse logistics consulting experience includes projects with a number of large American companies, and he has been an invited speaker on Reverse Logistics in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, England, France, Mexico, and Spain. In the Fall of 2005, Ron was on sabbatical as a visiting professor at the corporate offices of 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota.
His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Business Logistics, The California Management Review, and The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. He is a two-term Past President of the Logistics Section of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Past RLA Participation
• Panel Moderator - "Online Auctions - Changing the Way We Do Business"
- Las Vegas 2006
• Panel Moderator - "Second Time Around - Building Revenue Opportunities"
- Las Vegas 2007
• Panel Moderator - "Diamonds in the Rough: Maximizing Secondary
Market Revenue Opportunities" - Las Vegas 2008
• Panel Moderator - "New Technologies in Reverse Logistics" - Las Vegas 2009
The Reverse Logistics Standards Committee is organized to explore and promote cross industry standards that facilitate reverse logistics process optimization. It is a venue for all of the reverse logistics stake-holders to develop a common vocabulary and data-set upon which standards can be based. Its work is presented in the wiki below: Reverse Logistics Terms and Definitions. Contact one of the committee members also listed below for comments or suggested edits to these documents.
Committee Charter
Reverse Logistics Terms & Definitions
Committee Progress
Committee Meeting Minutes - April 4, 2008
Committee Meeting Minutes - April 18, 2008
Chairperson - Ron Tibben-Lembke, Ph.D., University of Nevada
Co-Chairperson - Ken Jacobsen, Connexus
RLA Advisor: Gailen Vick, Reverse Logistics Association
Members:
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