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Dr.Arshinder Kaur
IIT Madras


Arshinder Kaur is currently working as Professor in the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Chennai, INDIA. She has been working in IIT Madras since July 2008.She did her Ph D from IIT Delhi in the area of Supply Chain Management from Mechanical Engineering Department on topic of Supply Chain Coordination.She has worked in Curtin University, Australia for 1 year in Curtin Business School in 2014 as Senior Lecturer. She has more than 25 publications in reputed international journals like Omega, Journal of Cleaner Production, Int. J. of Production Economics, Production Planning and Control, Computers and Industrial Engineering and Int. J. of Logistics and Systems Management. She has presented papers in various international conferences like POMS (Production and Operations Management Society), APORS (Asia Pacific operational Research Society), and SOM (Society of Operations Management).

Her doctoral work (Ph D thesis) on the topic 'Supply Chain Coordination' has been accepted as a Highly Commended Award Winner of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. She is a reviewer of many reputed international journals like European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning and Control and Applied Mathematical Modeling. Her areas of interests are supply chain contracts, supply chain coordination, sustainable supply chains, strategic sourcing and service operations management. She has conducted many programmes for Industry executives in the area of supplier development, supply chain risk, operations management, supplier selection, operations management, supplier-buyer relationship, outsourcing, forecasting for companies like AREVA, HAL, GMMCO, McKinsey, CTS etc.