Hyun Soo Ahn

Hyun-soo Ahn is a professor of Technology and Operations and Ford Motor Co. Director of Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan. He is an active researcher in supply chain management, service operations, revenue and pricing management, purchasing, and value chain innovations. His research has been funded by multiple government and private agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He received multiple research awards at Ross, including the 2019 Ross Researcher of the Year award. At Ross, he teaches classes in business analytics, machine learning, statistics, and consulting methodology in the EMBA, MBA, MSCM, and BBA programs. He also teaches executive classes on business analytic and digital transformation for several companies, including ICBC and Bank of America. He has received six teaching excellence awards (voted by the graduating class). He has worked with and supervised more than 70 projects with companies and non-profit organizations. The companies include Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, FCA, Boeing, Radial, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Safeway, General Electric, General Motors, Medtronic, Ametek, and Intel. He is the founder of Supply Chain Consulting Studio, a capstone program for the Master of Supply Chain Management students.

EDUCATION

• PhD University of Michigan 2001
• MSE University of Michigan 1997
• BSE Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1994

Publications

The Potentially Negative Effects of Cooperation in Service Systems Hakjin Chung, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter 2020

(Rescaled) Multi‐Attempt Approximation of Choice Model and Its Application to Assortment Optimization Hakjin Chung, Hyun-soo Ahn, Stef Jasin 2019

Coordinating Pricing and Inventory Replenishment with Nonparametric Demand Learning Chen, B., Chao, X. Ahn, H 2019

To share or not to share? Capacity reservation in a shared supplier Anyan Qi, Hyun-soo Ahn, Amitabh Sinha 2019

Conditional Promotions and Consumer Overspending Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Ozge Sahin, Bam Amornpetchkul) 2018

Analysis of Deterministic Control and Its Improvements for an Inventory Problem with Multi-Product Batch Differentiation Ahn, H, Jasin, W., Kaminsky, P, Wang, Y. 2017

Capacity Investment with Demand Learning Hyun-Soo Ahn (Anyan Qi and Amitabh Sinha) 2017

When is Anarchy Beneficial? Tyler Moxey, Hyun-soo Ahn, Hakjin Chung, Rhonda Righter 2017

Algorithms for the two-stage production-capacitated lot-sizing problem Hwang, H., Ahn. H, Kaminsky, P. 2016

Investing in a shared supplier in a competitive market: Stochastic capacity case. Hyun-Soo Ahn (Amitabh Sinha, Anyan Qi) 2015

Rationing Capacity in Advance to Signal Quality Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Man Yu, Roman Kapuscinski) 2015

Rationing Capacity in Advance to Signal Quality Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Man Yu, Roman Kapuscinski) 2015

Choosing which provider sees the next patient in the preanesthesia evaluation clinic based on the relative speeds of the providers Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Franklin Dexter, MD and Richard H. Epstein, MD) 2013

Dynamic pricing of limited inventories when customers negotiate Chia-Wei Kuo, Hyun-soo Ahn, Goker Aydin 2011

Joint Management of Capacity and Inventory in Make-to-Stock Production Systems Hyun-soo Ahn, Maria Mayorga 2011

Managing Queues with Heterogeneous Servers Jung-Hyun Kim, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter 2011

Inventory policies for a make-to-order system with a perishable component and fixed ordering cost Katia Frank, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rachel Zhang 2009

Inventory, discounts, and the timing effects Hyun-soo Ahn , Mehmet Gumus, and Philip Kaminsky 2009

Optimal production policies with multistage stochastic demand lead times Jung-hyun Kim, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter 2009