We help clients understand how operational decisions and supply chain structures drive cost, performance, and business outcomes. This practice area applies rigorous economic and quantitative analysis to complex production and distribution systems, including sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory management.
Our experts evaluate how goods and services move through global and domestic supply chains, identifying inefficiencies, disruptions, and bottlenecks that impact profitability and operational reliability. We frequently analyze procurement strategies, supplier relationships, and logistics networks to assess how alternative decisions or external shocks would have changed outcomes.
In litigation and advisory settings, we support matters involving business interruption, contract disputes, ERP and systems implementation failures, and post-merger operational integration. Our analysis focuses on causation and damages, often developing counterfactual scenarios to isolate the economic impact of operational breakdowns or supply chain disruptions.
We also address resilience and risk in modern supply chains, including the effects of geopolitical events, demand shocks, and supplier concentration. By combining applied economics, data analysis, and deep operational expertise, we provide clear, defensible insights into how complex systems perform—and how they fail.
Executive Director of Supply Chain Resource Cooperative and Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, North Carolina State University
- Supply Chain & Operations Economics
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Doctoral Studies at Southern Methodist University
- Data Science & Statistics
- Labor & Employment
- Antitrust & Competition
- Supply Chain & Operations Economics