Rate My Professor John Aloysius

John Aloysius is Professor and Oren Harris Chair in Logistics in the J.B. Hunt Department of Supply Chain Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He concurrently serves as Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Business Decision Making. Aloysius earned his PhD from Temple University in 1996. His career at the University of Arkansas includes serving as interim director of the Behavioral Business Research Lab in the Walton College in 2015. Since at least 2017, he has held the endowed Oren Harris Chair position, as documented in his ORCID profile.

Aloysius's research specializations include behavioral decision making in supply chains, supply chain analytics, integration of human judgment with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence in demand planning, RFID applications in inventory management, supplier dependence and innovation investment, product substitutability effects on stockouts, and gender influences on supply chain collaboration. He has produced over 70 publications, garnering more than 2,075 citations according to his ResearchGate profile. Notable publications are 'Demand Planning for the Digital Supply Chain: How to Integrate Human Judgment and Predictive Analytics' (with Rebekah B. Brau and Enno Siemsen), 'The Effectiveness of RFID in Backroom and Sales Floor Inventory Management' (with Nicole De Horatius), 'Supplier Dependence Asymmetry and Investment in Innovation: The Role of Psychological Uncertainty' (with Stephanie Eckerd), and 'Can Product Substitutability Ameliorate the Adverse Effects of Inventory Stockouts.' In 2020, his co-authored paper 'Transparency in the Supply Chain: Effects of Blockchain Technology on Trust and Performance' (with Yanji Duan and Christian Hofer) won the Best Supply Chain Paper award from the Academy of Management's Operations and Supply Chain Management Division. His studies highlight how female decision-makers enhance collaboration in supply chains and advocate for hybrid human-machine approaches in forecasting to improve accuracy and response times.

Aloysius received the Faculty Excellence in Research Award from the Walton College of Business in 2025. He contributes to public discourse through Walton College Insights articles on women in supply chains and automation in forecasting. He has presented on essential data analytics skills for supply chain professionals, underscoring practical implications of his research for industry.