Michael Watson
Michael Watson
Master of Engineering Management
Course: IEMS 427 – Operations Analysis
Course and Teacher Evaluation Link:
Factory Operations Analysis (Winter 2007)
E-mail: m-watson2@northwestern.edu
Manager within the Supply Chain Applications Group at ILOG, an IBM Company. (http://www.ilog.com/products/supplychain/ and http://blogs.ilog.com/supplychainapps/)
This group is responsible for the LogicTools Suite of products. The products cover strategic network design and facility location, multi-site production sourcing, carbon modeling, inventory and flow path optimization, finite production scheduling and planning, and strategic transportation optimization and routing.
His group works with the following types of companies: CPG, Chemical, Retail, Wholesale and Distribution, Industrial and Automotive, Medical Equipment, Pharma and Bio-Tech, 3PL's, Consultants, and Operational Governmental Organizations (like the Postal Service and US Army).
Previously, he worked as a consultant for IBM where he spent a significant amount of time at General Motors helping implement plant-level improvements such as set-up time reduction, throughput improvement, reduction of equipment failures, and other lean manufacturing programs.
Education:
PhD 1996 Industrial Engineering and Management Science Northwestern University
MS 1993 Industrial Engineering and Management Science Northwestern University
BS 1992 Industrial Engineering Bellarmine University
Professional Experience:
1998 – present: ILOG, an IBM Company.
Manager in the Supply Chain Applications Group
His current position is the result of 2 acquisitions. He started at LogicTools in 1998, helped to grow it from 5 people to 45, and helped sell the company to ILOG. ILOG was acquired by IBM in January 2009.
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