Xiang (Sean) Wan

Background

Dr. Xiang(Sean) Wan serves as an associate professor in the Department of Marketing and Logistics, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He has held previous faculty appointments at the University of Tennessee and Marquette University.

Dr. Wan holds a PhD in Business Administration with a major inSupply Chain Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he earned Top 15% Teaching Awards in 2009 and 2010 at the Robert H. Smith School of Business as well as the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and the Allan N. Nash Award for outstanding doctoral student in 2011.

Dr. Wan’s research interests include product and service variety management, inventory management, supply chain coordination. His research work has been published in highly recognized global publications including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal and the Journal of Business Logistics, among other publications.

Dr. Wan’s research impacts both academia and industry. In 2012, he received the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. Additionally, one of his papers was cited and discussed in the practitioner article, “SKU Proliferation: Too Much or Not Enough?” published at Deloitte University Press.

Furthermore, an article from the Wall Street Journal recognized Wan as one of "12 Academic Experts [Who] Make Sense of Consumer-Centric Big Data with Adaptive Analytics."

Education

• Ph.D. University of Maryland, Smith School of Business, College Park, MD
• M.S. Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an, China
• B.S. Nanchang University, Information Engineering School, Nanchang, China

Areas of Expertise

• Distribution Systems
• Inventory Management
• Transportation
• Supply Chain Management
• Logistics Operations Management

Publications

Xiang Wan. 2022. Omnichannel Distribution to Fulfill Retail Order. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Vol.24(4), 2150-2165.

Zenan Zhou, Xiang Wan. 2022. Does the Sharing Economy Technology Disrupt Incumbents? Exploring the Influences of Mobile Digital Freight Matching Platforms on Road Freight Logistics Firms. Production and Operations Management Vol.31(1), 117-137.

David Gligor, Beth Davis-Sramek, Ismail Golgeci, Albert Tan, Alex Vitale, Ivan Russo, Ismail Golgeci, Xiang Wan. 2022. Utilizing blockchain technology for supply chain transparency: a resource orchestration perspective. Journal of Business Logistics Vol. 43(1), 140-159.

Terry Esper, Vincent Castillo, Kate Ren, Anníbal Sodero, Xiang Wan, Keely Croxton, Michael Knemeyer, Steven DeNunzio, Walter Zinn, Thomas Goldsby. 2020. Everything Old is New Again: The Age of Consumer‐Centric Supply Chain Management. Journal of Business Logistics Vol. 41(4), 286-293.

Xiang Wan, Rodrigo Britto, Zenan Zhou. 2020. In Search of the Negative Relationship between Product Variety and Inventory Turnover. International Journal of Production and Economics Vol. 222, 107503.

Xiang Wan. 2019. What Happened to Inventory and Cost after a Vertical Integration? A Longitudinal Analysis Considering Demand Uncertainty. International Journal of Production Research Vol. 57(24), 7501-7519.

Xiang Wan, Martin Dresner, Philip Evers. 2018. How Do Delivery Variety Decisions Contribute to Sales? Decision Sciences Vol. 49(6), 1024-1060.

Nada Sanders, Xiang Wan. 2018. Mitigating Forecast Errors from Product Variety through Information Sharing. International Journal of Production Research Vol. 56(12), 4356-4367.

Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiang Wan. 2017. Product Variety, Sourcing Complexity, and The Bottleneck Of Coordination. Strategic Management Journal Vol. 38(8), 1569–1587.

Xiang Wan, Nada Sanders. 2017. The negative impact of product variety: Forecast bias, inventory levels, and the role of vertical integration. International Journal of Production Economics Vol.186, 123–131.

Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiang Wan. 2017. Product Variety and Vertical Integration. Strategic Management Journal Vol.38(5), 1134-1150.

Na Xu, Shizhen Bai, Xiang Wan. 2017. Adding Pay-on-Delivery to Pay-to-Order: The Value of Two Payment Schemes to Online Sellers. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Vol.21(1), 27-37.

Xiang Wan. 2016. Timing of the Effects: A Dynamic Analysis of Pack-Size Variety, Demand, and Cost. Journal of Business Logistics Vol.37(3), 271-283.

Xiang Wan, Xiaowen Huang, and Yan Dong. 2016. The Moderating Role of Product Categories in the Relationship between Online Fulfillment, Procurement, and Consumer Repurchase Intention: A Hierarchical Analysis. Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol.52(4), 63-76.

Mark Cotteleer, Xiang Wan. 2016. Does The Starting Point Matter? The Literature-Driven And The Phenomenon-Driven Approaches Of Using Corporate Archival Data in Academic Research. Journal of Business Logistics Vol.37(1), 26-33.

Yan Dong, Kefeng Xu, Yi Xu, and Xiang Wan. 2016. Quality Management in Multi-Level Supply Chains with Outsourced Manufacturing. Production and Operations Management Vol.25(2), 290-305.

Xiang Wan, Martin Dresner. 2015. Closing the Loops: An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamic Decisions Affecting Product Variety. Decision Sciences Journal Vol.46(6), 1141-1164.

Xiang Wan, Martin Dresner, and Philip Evers. 2014. Assessing the Dimensions of Product Variety on Performance: The Value of Product Line and Pack Size. Journal of Business Logistics Vol.35(3), 213-224.

Xiang Wan, Philip Evers, and Martin Dresner. 2012. Too Much of a Good Thing? The Impact of Product Variety on Operations and Sales Performance. Journal of Operations Management Vol. 30(4), 316-324.

Philip Evers, Xiang Wan. 2012. System Analysis using Simulation. Journal of Business Logistics Vol.33(2), 80-89.

Xiang Wan and Philip Evers. 2011. Supply Chains Networks with Multiple Retailers: A Test of Emerging Theory on Inventories, Stockouts, and Bullwhips. Journal of Business Logistics Vol.32 (1), 27-39.

Xiang Wan, Li Zou, and Martin Dresner. 2009. Assessing the Price Effects of Airline Alliances on Parallel Routes. Transportation Research, Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review Vol. 45(4), 627-641. (Research award from the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) Foundation)

Xiang Wan, 2004. Comparative Analysis of Supermarkets and Convenience Shops in China. China Market Modern Business Vol. 2, 57-60. (in Chinese)

Xiang Wan, 2004. Consumption, Fashion and Brand. Commercial Research Vol. 13, 31-32. (in Chinese)