Ford Whitman Harris

Ford Whitman Harris
Born(1877-08-08)August 8, 1877
DiedOctober 27, 1962(1962-10-27) (aged 85)

Ford Whitman Harris (August 8, 1877 – October 27, 1962) was an American production engineer who derived the square-root formula for ordering inventory now known as the economic order quantity, which has appeared in countless academic articles and texts over the past 100 years.