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Faculty Profile

Dr. Arshinder Kaur

Professor
Ph.D. (Supply Chain Management) — IIT Delhi (2007)
M.Tech. — IIT Kharagpur (2003)
arshinder@iitm.ac.in +91-44-2257 4553 Office: DoMS 410

Teaching & Research Interests

Teaching Interests

  • Operations Research
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Supply Chain Contracts
  • Global Risk Management
  • Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain Coordination
  • Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Closed Loop Supply Chain
  • Inventory Control
  • Service Management
  • Agro-food Supply Chains

Academic Experience

  • Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras (Dec 2014 – Present).
  • Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Information Systems, Curtin Business School, Australia (Dec 2014 – Present).
  • Senior Lecturer, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia (Jan 2014 – Dec 2014).
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras (July 2008 – Jan 2014).
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, EADS-SMI Chair, IIM Bangalore (Oct 2007 – July 2008).

Awards & Honours

Key Technology Partner

Honorary Appointment at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2017).

Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Research

Highly Commended Award Winner (2008) by International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.

Best Paper Award

Recipient at the 4th AIMS International Conference held at IIM Indore (2006).

Selected Publications

  • Sagar B Pingale, Arshinder Kaur and Renu Agarwal, 2024, Collaborative Last Mile Delivery: A Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Model with Collaboration Points. Expert Systems With Applications.
  • Vasanthraj, V., Potdar, V., Agrawal, H., Arshinder, Kaur, 2024, Transforming milk supply chains with blockchain: enhancing visibility and cost reduction. Benchmarking: An International Journal.
  • Nilanjan Dutta and Arshinder Kaur, 2023, Enabling socially responsible operations: A decision-making model for a firm contracting with decision-biased smallholders. Annals of Operations Research, 320, 509–533. DOI Link ↗
  • Ramesh K., Arshinder Kaur and Renu Agarwal, 2022, Robust optimization of sustainable food supply chain network considering food waste valorization and supply uncertainty. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 171. DOI Link ↗
  • Ramesh K., Phi Yen, Renu Agarwal, Arshinder Kaur and Christopher Bajada, 2021, Collaborative innovation and sustainability in the food supply chain- evidence from farmer producer organizations. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 168. DOI Link ↗
  • Arshinder, Kanda, A. and Deshmukh, S. G., 2008, Supply Chain Coordination: Perspectives, Empirical Studies and Research Directions. International Journal of Production Economics, 115, 2, 316-335. (Top 25 Hottest Papers 2009-10). DOI Link ↗

Research Guidance

Doctoral Students Supervised (Selected)

Dr. Nilanjan Dutta (2023)

Enabling socially responsible operations: Design and analysis of advance payment contracts between a firm and farmers in emerging economies.

Dr. Ashish Goel (2021)

Integration of Social Sustainability Considerations in the Management of Construction Projects- A Stakeholder Approach.

Dr. K Ramesh (2021)

Collaborative innovation, life cycle analysis and network optimisation - essays on food supply chain sustainability.

Dr. M Balaji (2018)

Analysing the Factors Influencing Quality, Waste and Performance in Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain.

Professional Services & Affiliations

  • Referee to Journals: European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning and Control, Applied Mathematical Modeling, and others.
  • Reviewer: International Conference of Advances in Supply Chain Management 2011 (IIT Kharagpur), Operations Research Society of India-2010.