Dr. Arnold Maltz is a Senior Strategist specializing in Transportation and Supply-Chain Management. Dr. Maltz spent 12 years in commercial transportation and industrial distribution before obtaining his Ph.D. in Business Logistics from the Ohio State University. In the commercial sector, his primary responsibilities included cost analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and operations analysis of corporate distribution systems. Dr. Maltz played a leading role in special projects including the integration analysis of distribution organizations for a merger, adjusting price brackets for transportation costs, and evaluating and installing software systems. He is a Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W. P.Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and has provided consultations for industry leading multinational corporations.
Since 1991, Dr. Maltz has taught and done research in transportation, logistics, and operations. He has been particularly active in logistics outsourcing and third party logistics studies where his work has won national awards. Professor Maltz has consulted on transportation and network issues for an electric utility, a semiconductor manufacturer, and an association of suppliers to the oil and gas industry in New Mexico. He is part of an ongoing effort to coordinate global benchmarking for the Semiconductor Logistics Forum, and is being funded to research decision analysis techniques for the selection and location of global contract manufacturing capacity for a major computer manufacturer. Dr.Maltz has also taught logistics in the Arizona State University Online M.B.A. program for Deere & Co. and Lucent Technologies.