Prof. (Dr.) Zal Phiroz, is a Partner at Pier Consulting Group, Author of an upcoming book on "Perspectives of Supply Chain Competitiveness," and litigation and industry consultant at Fortune 500 companies, and a Faculty member at several of the world's leading educational institutions.
Dr. Zal Phiroz Background: Supply Chain, Operations Analytics
Qualifications: Ph.D. | MBA | BS Hons (Comp Info Systems) | BCS
Focus: Academia, Litigation and Industry Consulting
In addition to executive and senior management roles, including appointments at Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG), TELUS (NYSE: T), he has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Michigan State University, and University of California, San Diego.
In his work at Procter & Gamble, he managed national and international projects in partnership with Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, and CVS. He oversaw numerous supply chain optimization initiatives, including target market definition, demand simulation, shrink maintenance, and the application of retail disruptive innovation techniques.
As a senior partner at Pier Consulting Group Inc., he collaborated directly with medium-large sized corporations; including several fortune 1000 clients, on supply chain and operational optimization projects. With a focus on areas of shrink, sustainability, market segmentation and differentiation, projects have included simulated projection and forecasting, aggregate data analysis on competitive markets, regression techniques and clustering evaluation for growth opportunity quantification and optimization of supply chain coordination.
He holds several qualifications, including a CIPM and CISCM designation in Procurement and Supply Chain Management. Academically, he holds a Ph.D. (Hierarchical decision making patterns for the placement of physical supply chain entities), an MBA in International Finance, and two degrees in the area of Computer Science - BS Honors [Computer Information Systems], BCS [Computer Science].
In addition to being appointed to the Executive Advisory Board for the Center for Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, he has also been retained as an expert on several cases within the area of product liability and injury, supply chain design, quality control, quality assurance, as well as production, distribution, storage and transportation benchmarks, and standards.
