Glenn Parry

Glenn Parry is a professor in strategy and operations management at Bristol Business School, UWE. and senior visiting fellow with the University of Bath, UK. He is also working for the textbook titled Service Design and Delivery published by Springer, as an editor.

Education

He received B.Sc and M.Phil degrees from University of Wales, Swansea in 1995 and 1997. In 2003, he obtained Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Coventry University, and Certificate in Teaching Higher Education and Diploma in Rogerian Counselling and Psychotherapyfrom University of Warwick in 2005. He has completed his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2000.

Career

Parry was a leader of the £16 million European Integrated Logistics for Innovative Product Technologies project (ILIPT). The project's main purpose is research and production descriptions of how a build to order system may be implemented for European vehicle manufacture. The key findings were presented to the European Commission and industry and were detailed in a book "Build to Order" In the project German OEMs were also involved, the project has garnered international interest.

• The Threat to Core Competence Posed byDeveloping Closer Supply Chain Relationships , International Journal of Logistics: Research and its Applications. 2006
• Requirement for a Sea-change in Car Production in New Technologies for the Intelligent Design and Operation of Manufacturing Networks, (eds) Fraunhofer IRB Verlag. 2007
• Outsourcing engineering commodity procurement, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 2008
• Lean New Product Introduction: a UK in Lean Product Development - Concept & Models, (eds) Icfai www.books.iupindia.org. 2008
• The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications Volume 11 Issue 6. 2008
• Build To Order: The Road to the 5-day Car, Springer. 2008
• Lean Competence: integration of theories in operations management practice, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal Volume 15 Issue 3. 2010
• Strategic outsourcing of core competences in theautomotive industry: threat or opportunity? , International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 9 (1). 2009

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