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Ravi Anupindi Associate Professor of Operations Management. Joined Stern 2000 40 West 4th Street Tisch 7-10 212-998-0487 Links: Teaching (ALL) and current courses: Competitive Advantage From Operations (Spring 02) EMBA Supply Chain Management (Spring 02) Research, and Publications Office Hours: OPEN (Call /Email)

• M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1993, Management of Manufacuring and Automation,
  Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;
• M.E. 1984, Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;
• B.E. (Hons) 1982, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Academic Positions Held

• Stern School of Business, Operations Management Department, June 2000 - present
• Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Sept. 1993 - Aug. 2000

Courses / Topics Taught

Supply Chain Management (Full Time / Part Time / Executive MBA)

Operations Management Core (Full Time / Part Time / Executive MBA)

Executive Programs in Supply Chain Management

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching

1996 Operations Research Meritorious Service Award.

William Larimer Mellon Fellowship (1987, 1989-1991).

Texas Instruments Fellowship (1989).

Professional Leadership

Associate Editor, Management Science, Operations Reserearch, IIE Transactions, and OR Letters.

Member of the editorial board for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Journal.

Advisory Board: Center for Supply Chain Management, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India.

Guest Editor for "Sadhana: Special Issue on Competitive Manufacturing Systems". Sadhana is the Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences and published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Adhoc Reviewer for: Management Science, Operations Research, MSOM Journal, Europeran Journal of Operations Research, IIE Transactions, Journal of POMS, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems.

Invited to be a Specialist Referee for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

Member, INFORMS.

Research Areas

Supply Chain Management, Supply Contracts and Inventory Management, Just-in-Time systems, Operations-Manufacturing Interfaces.

Current Projects

Study of Decentralized Distribution Systems.

Analysis and Design of Supply Contracts.

Category Management: Optimal Assortments, Pricing, and Inventory.

Representative Publications

• "Coordination and Flexibility in Supply Contracts with Options", March 2002. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (with D. C. Barnes and Y. Bassok)
• "A General Framework for the Study of Decentralized Distribution Systems", Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Volume 3, No. 4, Fall 2001. (with Y. Bassok, and E. Zemel) [This paper is based on an earlier working paper titled "Study of Decentralized Distribution Systems: Part I - A General Framework", July 1999]
• ``Centralization of Stocks: Retailers vs. Manufacturer'', Management Science , Volume 45, No. 2, 1999 (with Y. Bassok).
• ``Estimation of Consumer Demand with Stock-out based Substitution'', Marketing Science , Volume 17, No. 4, 1998 (with M. Dada and S. Gupta).
• ``Supply Contracts with Quantity Commitments and Stochastic Demand'', book chapter forthcoming in Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management by S. Tayur, M. Magazine, and R. Ganeshan (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998 (with Y. Bassok).
• ``Approximations for Multiproduct Contracts with Stochastic Demands and Business Volume Discounts: Single Supplier Case'', IIE Transactions , Volume 30, Number 8, August 1998 (with Y. Bassok).
• ``Single Period Multi-Product Inventory Models with Substitution'', Operations Research Volume 47 (4), July-August 1999 (with Y. Bassok and R. Akella).
• "Managing Stochastic Multi-product Systems: Model, Measures, and Analysis", Operations Research, (Supplement to) Volume 46, No. 3, May-June 1998. (with S. Tayur).
• "Analysis of Supply Contracts with Total Minimum Commitments," IIE Transactions, Volume 29, No. 5, May 1997 (with Y. Bassok).
• "The Non-Stationary Stochastic Lead-Time Inventory Problem: Near-Myopic Bounds, Heuristics, and Testing," Management Science, Vol 41, No. 1, January 1996 (with Thomas Morton and D. Pentico).
• "Diversification Under Supply Uncertainty," Management Science, Vol. 39, No. 10, October 1993 (with R. Akella).

Text Books

Managing Business Process Flows (with S. Chopra, S. Deshmukh, J. van Mieghem, and E. Zemel), Prentice Hall, Inc., 1999.

Software

BeerNET : A Remote Group Software for Studying Supply Chain Dynamics

General / Consulting

Consulting & Speaking Engagements McDonald's, Budget Group Inc., RealTime Data, Inc., Digital Knowledge Associates, International Business Machines, Deloitte & Touche, Wilson Sporting Goods

Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX (6/88 - 8/88). Member, Technical Services.

American Cimflex Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (1/87 - 8/87). Software Engineer.

Wipro Systems Limited, Bangalore, India (8/84 - 8/87). Senior Software Engineer.

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Updated 4/2/02 by Ravi Anupindi