Thomas Vollmann is Professor of Manufacturing Management at IMD.

His areas of special interest are:
- Manufacturing planning and control
- Performance measurement
- Supply chain management
- Enterprise transformation

Professor Vollmann is a consultant to numerous companies in manufacturing, benchmarking, supply and demand chain management and a lecturer in executive development programs throughout the world.

He has been actively involved in executive education, notably as Professor of Business Administration at Indiana University, as Professor at INSEAD, as Professor of Operations Management at Boston University, and as Professor at the University of Rhode Island and Dartmouth College. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he later gained his MBA and PhD.

Thomas Vollmann is the author of numerous books and articles, most recently:
- The Power of Two, with Carlos Cordon, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008
- Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, Fifth Edition, with W.L. Berry and D.C. Whybark, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005
- The Next Game in Purchasing, with Carlos Cordon, The Smart Manager, July-September 2004
- Teaching Supply Chain Management to Business Executives, with Carlos Cordon and Jussi Heikkilä, Production and Operations Management, Spring 2000
- Building a Smarter Demand Chain, with Carlos Cordon, Financial Times Mastering Management, February 1999

Several of Professor Vollmann’s recent cases have won awards, including:
- Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain A, B, with Carlos Cordon, Ralf Seifert, and Petri Lehtivaara.
- ChemUnity.com, with Carlos Cordon and Petri Lehtivaara.
- Thomas Medical Systems: Outsourcing Policy A, B, C with Denyse Julien and Carlos Cordon.