12th IEOM Global Supply Chain and Logistics

IEOM Society International addresses the issues of Global Supply Chain and Logistics .There are various levels of readiness of SCM graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes is how to reduce the readiness gap of SCM graduates around the world. The special focus is given to operations management, management science, supply chain management, business analytics, and logistics management. Are the graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? Featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address supply chain and logistics education challenges and opportunities.

Global Supply Chain and Logistics Topics can be related on:

operations management
supply chain management
logistics management
MIS
IT
cybersecurity
finance
project management
business intelligence and analytics
risk management
ERP/CRM
quality management
inventory management
lean management
management science
productivity management
Innovation and entrepreneurship

Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio. All will be included in the IEOM 2022 India Conference proceedings. There will be mostly virtual presentation using zoom. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.

All speakers need to register for the 2nd Indian International IEOM India Conference. Please pay your registration fee ONLINE: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=k8aELVN

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Global Supply Chain and Logistics I

August 18, 8:00 – 9:30 am – Zoom Meeting Room 2
Session Chair: Prof. L Krishnanand, NIT Warangal

8:00 – 8:30 am (Thursday, August 18)

Sandeep Karwa, PMP
Program Management Professional
PMO, Global Program Manager
Hubbell Incorporated
USA

Sandeep Karwa holds Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters from Western Michigan University. Sandeep Karwa is a Solutions-driven professional with proven expertise in planning and executing cost effective New Product Development (NPD), New Product Introduction (NPI), Continuous Improvement / VAVE and Supplier Development programs for automotive and industrial market sectors. He has worked in companies like Bing Metals Group, Inc., Alcoa, Arconic and EATON. Presently he is working with Hubbell Incorporated.

A motivational leader with demonstrated success in leading multi-cultural, global cross-functional teams. Planned and executed key growth and strategic programs for Automotive OEM’s, Dept. Of Energy (DOE), GE Energy and Siemens.

8:30 – 9:00 am (Thursday, August 18)

Dr. Anish Sachdeva
PhD (IIT Roorkee)
Professor
Dr. B R Ambedker National Institute of Technology (NIT)
Jalandhar, India

Dr. Anish Sachdeva is presently working as Professor in Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, NIT, Jalandhar. Dr. Anish has over 28 years experience including 02 years in industry. His areas of interest include Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Modeling and Simulation. He has over 123 publications including 63 papers in SCI/Scopus journals and published 06 Book Chapters. He has successfully guided 12 Research Scholars and 06 are in progress. He has also guided more than 67 M. Tech theses. He is a member of editorial board and guest editor of about 6 journals. He is also reviewer for some journals from Emerald, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis publishers. He has organized a series of conferences CPIE (Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering) from 2007 to 2019.

9:00 – 9:30 am (Thursday, August 18)

Jitesh J. Thakkar, PhD

Professor and Director (MBA & BBA)

National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) (Established by Ministry of Railways and funded by GoI) National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) Campus Lalbaug, Vadodara – 390 004, Gujarat, India

Dr. Jitesh J. Thakkar is a Professor and Director of MBA & BBA programs at National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), Vadodara – India’s first University dedicated in the field of Rail and Transportation education. He has served as a faculty at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for 10 years. He has professional experience of more than 22 years. He holds a Ph.D in Supply Chain Management from IIT Delhi, M.Tech. in Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi and Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering conferred with Gold Medal from one of the oldest Government Engineering College – Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College, Sardar Patel University. His areas of interests include Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Transportation Management, Project Management, Service Operations Management, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Optimization, Statistical Modeling and System Dynamics. He has supervised 13 Ph.D and 80 B.Tech. / M.Tech. projects at IIT Kharagpur. He is a productive researcher with Hindex 33 and 75 research papers published in SCI/SCOPUS listed journals. The research papers are published in high impact factor, A* & A grade journals of ABDC (Australian Business Deans Council) such as International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research (Part-E), International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Production Planning and Control, Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Cleaner Production. He has published three books – Structural Equation Modeling, MultiCriteria Decision Making and Project Management with Springer. He is contributing as Associate Editor of the journals – i) International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Emerald and ii) OPSEARCH, Springer. He has executed number of large scale research and consultancy projects sponsored by DST, DRDO, NLC, ICSSR, and MHRD. He has extended training/consulting to various organizations such as L&T, DRDO, Food Corporation of India, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Tata Steel, Tata Hitachi, Essar Steel, Ordnance Factory, Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd., Godrej, Qatar Chemical. His online course on “Six Sigma” offered by NPTEL has been attended by more than 30,000 University students and Industry professionals in last five years. He has delivered more than 100 invited sessions at various reputed platforms. He has been invited as a faculty expert by IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Indore, NITIE Mumbai, NIT Surat, NIT Trichy, IRMA, AMA, BCCI Kolkata, L&T-IPM.

Global Supply Chain and Logistics II

August 18, 2:00 – 3:30 pm – Zoom Meeting Room 2

Session Chair:

2:00 – 2:30 pm (Thursday, August 18)

Dr. Faisal Hasan
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Z H College of Engineering & Technology
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh
India

Dr. Faisal Hasan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University. He has more than 19 years experience in teaching and research. He has obtained his PhD in the area of Manufacturing System from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His teaching and research areas are manufacturing systems, human factors and operations management. He has published papers about 96 papers in National, International Conferences and Journals like International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Operations, Occupational Ergonomics, Work, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and International Journal of Operations Management. He has also edited book chapters in conference proceedings. Beside this, he has attended and presented papers at various national and international conferences of repute. He has supervised 02 research scholars for PhD and about 03 are pursuing PhD under him. He has TWO patents to his credit. He has delivered more than 16 invited talks/lectures in various conferences and STTPs. He is a regular reviewer for some journals of reputed publishers like Springer, Taylor & Francis and Inderscience. He has been a committee member for accreditation of institute by NBA and NAAC. He was one of the coordinator in organising HWWE-2017. He has organised several workshops/short term training programs also worked in various capacities at administrative level.

2:30 – 3:00 pm (Thursday, August 18)

Dr. G.V.R.K. Acharyulu Professor

Operations & Supply Chain Program Advisor

MBA (Healthcare & Hospital Management) Coordinator

MBA(General) School of Management Studies

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, Telangana State.

Dr.Acharyulu is a Professor in Operations & Supply Chain Management, Program Advisor- MBA (Healthcare & Hospital Management), Program Coordinator- MBA(General) at the School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, Central University, Hyderabad-500046, India. He did his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University, Maters from REC-Warangal. He holds his MBA degree (Marketing &Finance) from Osmania University and Ph.D in Supply Chain Management from the same University. He has 22 years of experience in TEACHING in management subjects IEOM India Conference Panel Sessions August 16-18, 2022 © IEOM Society International 2nd Indian Conference like Operations and Quantitatives, Supply Chain Management, Research Methodology, Information Systems, Hospital Management and 10 years of INDUSTRY experience in Operations and Materials divisions at Sponge Iron India Limited, A Government of India Enterprise. He has published 23 research papers in National and 25 in International Journals in the area of Operations, Supply Chain and Healthcare Management. He has presented various research papers at International Conferences held in USA, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and Dubai. He was visiting faculty at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand for teaching Logistics Manage.

3:00 – 3:30 pm (Thursday, August 18)

Dr. S Venkataramanaiah

Professor of Operations Management

IIM Lucknow, India

Dr. S Venkataramanaiah (S Venkat) is a Professor of Operations Management at IIM Lucknow and has 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He was a Postdoctoral Research fellow at Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA) Program, Nanyang Business School Singapore, worked at Honeywell Singapore as a SCM Lead Engineer. He worked at IIT Madras and IIM Indore and IIM Kozhikode before joining IIM Lucknow in May 2013. He has published more than 100 research papers in peer reviewed international journals and international conferences. He was a Best teacher award winner, Fulbright Scholar to USA and undergone training on global participant centered learning at Harvard Business School, USA. He is a certified professional in Lean Healthcare. He is a recipient of Nelson Mandela Leadership award and Jagatik Ayurvigyan Samman Award for his seminal work in the area of healthcare management. He has trained more than 400 MBA students on healthcare management during last three years from four premier management schools in India. He has carried out number of consultancy projects and offered executive development programmes for reputed organisations. He was also a jury member of Young Innovators award selection team. He is also a mentor for Startups in healthcare and supply chain management. He has won eight awards over last 25 years. He is also a marathon runner.