Production Planning and Control

John A. Buzacott is Professor Emeritus at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. After obtaining a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England, he taught in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, from 1967 to 1983 and then in the Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo from 1984 to 1990. He was at York University from 1991 until 2002 when he became Professor Emeritus. He was awarded a Dr. h.c. by the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2001, and he was President of POMS, the Production and Operations Management Society, in 1999.