Supply Chain Management

Dr. Zal Phiroz focuses on areas of supply chain management, data analytics, and operations management. As a practitioner, Phiroz has held national level appointments at TELUS and Procter & Gamble (P&G), managing international supply chain projects in partnership with retailers (Wal-Mart and Target) and overseeing projects on billion dollar P&G brands. Various supply chain initiatives implemented by 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. Phiroz has consulted on numerous global projects including various fortune 1000 firms involving simulated projection and forecasting, aggregate data analysis on competitive markets, regression techniques and clustering in determining the validity of demand projections, and identification of key markets. Opportunity quantification and optimization of supply chain coordination has been a hallmark of Phiroz's work. In addition to holding a PhD in supply chains, Phiroz has earned an MBA and is a double computer science graduate of the University of Windsor (BS with honors and BCS). He has spoken as a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences including OPAL, Intermodal, and ByPi, and is regularly invited as a guest lecturer on industry related supply chain topics.