Ralph Kuhn

Instructor

Department

Operations Management and Information Systems

Education

• MIS MBA, DePaul University
• B.S., University of Illinois, Marketing

Awards and Designations

• Lifetime Achievement Award (APICS Chicago Chapter)
• ASCM CPIM certification
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification

Teaching Areas

• Supply chain
• Project management
• Service management
• Operations management

Research Interests

• Strategy, sales and operations planning
• Lean
• Visual management
• Supply chain
• Project management
• Service management
• Quality management

Biography

Ralph Kuhn is a program leader with operations, IT and financial expertise. He is skilled with quality processes/tool deployment and financial justification of quality techniques to teams. He has extensive IT management skills, including program office management and software implementation. He has experience implementing web-based interfaces with marketing, product management, operations, software quality assurance and finance.

Kuhn has designed custom courseware in strategy, sales and operations planning, lean, visual management and quality management for corporations.