Recent Advances in Operations Management Applications

Risks Associated with Third Party Logistics in Indian Restaurant Supply Chain.- Improvement of Climate Smart Agriculture System based on Obstacles Assessment.- Hurdle Appraisal for the Implementation of Circular Economy Notions in Supply Chain.- Designing an Air Purifier by using Green Quality Function Deployment Methodology.- Improvement of Manufacturing Operations at an Automobile Industry by using Value Stream Mapping.- Supply Chain Management Practice Constructs in SMEs: Development of Constructs and its Implementation Issue.- Analysis of QMS practices performed in ISO 9001 Certified Engineering Educational Institutes of India: An Interpretive Structural Modelling Approach.- A Review on Life Cycle Assessment of Various Dairy Products.- Design of Fuzzy Controller for Blood Glucose Level.- Prioritization of Renewable Energy Alternatives by Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model: A Case Study of India.

Dr. Anish Sachdeva is a Professor in the Industrial and Production Engineering Department at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. His areas of interest are Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, supply chain management, Optimization and Simulation of Production Systems, Quality Management. He obtained his B.Tech from Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (erstwhile REC Jalandhar), M.Tech from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India). He has guided 65 M Tech and 14 PhD students. He has over 150 publications in international and national journals and proceedings of international conferences to his credit. He has organized seven international conferences at NIT Jalandhar as Organizing Secretary and more than 20 short term courses in his area of expertise. He has organized several workshops and training programs for academic institutes and companies. He has edited a number of journals of repute as guest editors as well as volumes of books reputed publishers. He also shares responsibilities of editorial board member in various international journals. Pradeep Kumar is working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He obtained his B.E. (Industrial Engineering) in 1982; M.E. (Production Engineering) in 1989; and Ph.D. in Manufacturing and Production Engineering in 1994- all these degrees from University of Roorkee (Now, IIT Roorkee). He has been a visiting faculty at West Virginia University USA, Wayne State University USA, AIT Bangkok, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He served the Delhi Technological University as Vice-Chancellor during 2014-15. He has published / presented more than 600 research papers in International and National Journals and proceedings of International and National Conferences. He has completed numerous