Excellence in Supply Chain Management

Balram Avittathur is a Professor of Operations Management at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) at Kolkata, India, and has been there since 1999. He holds a Fellow of Management (PhD) from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1999). He specializes in the broad area of supply chain management. His research interests also include applications of game theory in operations management and operations management for environmental sustainability. Debabrata Ghosh is Associate Professor at the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI). Prior to this, he was a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He holds a Fellow Programme in Management (PhD) from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain issues in emerging economies, sustainable operations, and supply chain coordination.

• 1 Operations and supply chain management: the initial journey; 2 Inventory management; 3 Forecasting and demand planning; 4 Supply chain management as a competitive advantage; 5 Supply chain coordination, contracts, and integration; 6 Procurement and vendor management; 7 Supply chain risk management; 8 Managing design for supply chain management; 9 Green and sustainable supply chains; 10 Popular supply chain analytics; 11 Operations and supply chain management in the digital era