Associate Professor
Department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences

Dean Chatfield

757-683-4880

2063 CONSTANT HALL
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University, (2001)

M.S. in Management Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University, (1993)

M.B.A. in Finance, Pennsylvania State University, (1991)

B.S. in Management Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (1989)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Chatfield, D. C. "CAREER: Simulation-Based Supply Chain Inventory Modeling and Decision Support" $551,438. -
Chatfield, D. C., Karande, K., Gopinath, M., Maurer, S. D. and Talley, W. K. "Assessing the M&S Technology Gap in the Transportation Industry of Southeast Virginia – Part B" $179,300. -
Chatfield, D. C., Maurer, S. D., Talley, W. K., Gopinath, M. and Karande, K. "Assessing the M&S Technology Gap in the Transportation Industry of Southeast Virginia – Part A" $93,500. -
Chatfield, D. C. "The Impact of Cascading Failures on the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains" $7,500. -

Expertise

Business
Supply Chain Management, Business Simulation, Operations Management
Modeling and Simulation
Discrete-Event Simulation, Agent-Based Simulation, Operations Research

Articles

Li, Y., Zobel, C. W., Serif, O. and Chatfield, D. C. (2020). Network Characteristics and Supply Chain Resilience under Conditions of Risk Propagation. International Journal of Production Economics 223 , pp. Article 107529.
Chatfield, D. C. and Prtichard, A. M. (2018). Crossover Aware Base Stock Decisions for Service-Driven Systems. Transportation Research Part E 114 , pp. 312-330.
Chatfield, D. C., Hayya, J. C. and Cook, D. P. (2013). Stockout Propagation and Amplification in Supply Chain Inventory Systems. International Journal of Production Research 51 (5) , pp. 1491-1507.
Chatfield, D. C. (2013). Underestimating the Bullwhip Effect - A Simulation Study of the Decomposability Assumption. International Journal of Production Research 51 (1) , pp. 230-244.
Chatfield, D. C. and Pritchard, A. M. (2013). Returns and the Bullwhip Effect. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 49 (1) , pp. 159-175.
Hayya, J. C., Harrison, T. P. and Chatfield, D. C. (2009). A solution for the intractable inventory model when both demand and lead time are stochastic. International Journal of Production Economics 122 (2) , pp. 595-605.
Hayya, J. C., Harrison, T. P. and Chatfield, D. C. (2009). Exploring the structural properties of the (D,0) inventory model. International Journal of Production Research 47 (10) , pp. 2767-2783.
Chatfield, D. C., Harrison, T. P. and Hayya, J. C. (2009). SCML: An Information Framework to Support Supply Chain Modeling. European Journal of Operational Research 196 , pp. 651-660.
Chatfield, D. C., Hayya, J. C. . and Harrison, T. P. . (2007). A Multi-Formalism Architecture for Agent-based, Order-Centric Supply Chain Simulation. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 15 (2) , pp. 153-174.
Chatfield, D. C. and Hayya, J. C. . (2007). All-Zero Forecasts for Lumpy Demand: A Factorial Study. International Journal of Production Research 45 (4) , pp. 935-950.
Chatfield, D. C. (2007). The Economic Lot Scheduling Problem: A Pure Genetic Search Approach. Computers and Operations Research 34 (10) , pp. 2865- 2881.
Chatfield, D. C., Harrison, T. P. and Hayya, J. C. (2006). An XML-Centered Approach to Creating Object-Oriented Supply Chain Simulation Models. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling 2 (3/4) , pp. 115-123.
Kim, J. G.., Chatfield, D. C., Harrison, T. P.. and Hayya, J. C.. (2006). Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect in a Supply Chain with Stochastic Lead Times. European Journal of Operational Research 173 , pp. 617-636.
Chatfield, D. C., Harrison, T. P.. and Hayya, J. C. . (2006). SISCO: An Object-Oriented Supply Chain Simulation System. Decision Support Systems 42 (1) , pp. 422- 434.
Chatfield, D. C., Kim, J. G., Harrison, T. P. and Hayya, J. C. (2004). The Bullwhip Effect: Impact of Stochastic Lead Times, Information Quality, and Information Sharing - A Simulation Study. Production and Operations Management 13 (4) , pp. 340-353.
Hayya, J. C., Chatfield, D. C., He, X. and Chu, C. H. (2003). Supply Chain Information Technology Metrics. International Journal of Operations & Quantitative Management,-s 9 (1) , pp. 33-48.

Conference Proceeding

Rasnick, E. and Chatfield, D. C. (2015). Simulating the Bullwhip Effect in a Multi-echelon Supply Chain 2015 Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Capstone Conference.
  • 2005: Best Application Research Paper, Decision Sciences Institute

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