Zal Phiroz

Dr. Zal Phiroz is an established expert and specialist in global supply chain practices. He has held a number of academic, executive and senior management roles, including appointments at Harvard University, Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG), TELUS (NYSE:T), and provides expert witness testimony on areas involving supply chain management including product manufacturing standards, distribution architecture, packaging and logistics protocol, inventory valuation and consumer behavior.

As a practitioner, Dr. Phiroz has held senior appointments at TELUS and Procter & Gamble, managing international supply chain projects in partnership with retailers (Wal-Mart, Target), and overseeing projects on billion dollar P&G brands (Iams, Tide). Various supply chain initiatives implemented by Dr. Phiroz within the area of target market definition, demand simulation, shrink maintenance, and the application of retail disruptive innovation techniques, are still actively in place.

With a focus on areas of shrink, sustainability, market segmentation and differentiation, Dr. Phiroz has consulted on projects involving simulated projection and forecasting, aggregate data analysis on competitive markets, regression techniques, and clustering in determining the validity of demand projections. Opportunity quantification, identification of key markets and optimization of supply chain coordination has been a hallmark of Dr. Phiroz’s work.

In addition to holding a PhD (Hierarchical decision making patterns for the placement of physical supply chain entities), Dr. Phiroz has earned an MBA, and is a double Computer Science graduate of the University of Windsor (BS[Hons], BCS). He has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, UCLA, and University of Southern California.