Bishal Dey Sarkar

Overview:

Dr. Bishal Dey Sarkar is an assistant professor of operations management and quantitative techniques at the Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya. He holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain and Logistics Management from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His academic journey includes an M.Tech from Amity University and a B.Tech from Guru Nanak Institute of Technology (WBUT). His research portfolio is diverse and impactful, with publications in several top-tier journals, including The International Journal of Logistics Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, and Technology in Society. His scholarly contributions reflect his deep expertise in Supply Chain Management, Port Logistics, and Advanced Research Methods. In recognition of his academic excellence, Dr. Sarkar was selected as a visiting research student at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. This opportunity underscores his active engagement in international research collaborations, further enriching his academic and professional network.

Academic background

PhD: Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi (2016-2021)
Tech: Amity University, Uttar Pradesh (2014-2016)
Tech: Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, West Bengal University of Technology (2009-2013)

Affiliations:

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Bihar, Aug 2024 – Present.
Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Nashik Campus, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, June 2022 to Aug 2024
Assistant Professor, GITAM University, Nov 2021 to May 2022

Teaching Interests:

Supply Chain and Logistics Management
International Logistics
Warehouse Management
Supply Chain Analytics
Import and Export Management

Research Interests:

Sustainable Supply Chain
Industry 4.0/5.0
International Tarde
Port Logistics
Digitalization in Supply Chain

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Publications - Journal Articles:

Mohanty, M. and Sarkar, B.D. (2025), "Sustainability integration in logistics: a study on green practices and operational impacts", Measuring Business Excellence, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: B, Scopus, Impact Factor: 3.4)
Panigrahi, R. R., Shrivastava, A. K., Sarkar, B. D., & Kaliyan, M. (2025). Inventory Knowledge, Industry 5.0 and Performances: Review and Future Research Agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 13.3)
Sharma, I., Sarkar, B. D., & Jagtap, S. (2025). Critical Success Factors for ICT Integration in Agri-Food Sector: Pathways for Decarbonization and Sustainability. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, (Scopus, Impact Factor: 6.5)
Sarkar, B. D., Gupta, L., & Jagtap, S. (2025). Resilient or fragile? Modelling economic disruptions in India's electronics sector due to the Red Sea crisis. Journal of Transport Geography, 123, 104121. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 6.3)
Gupta, L., Sarkar, B.D. and Shankar, R. (2025), "Strategic modelling for sustainable power grids: a comprehensive study on energy storage integration in India", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 2.5)
Agrawal, A., Sharma, A. and Sarkar, B. (2025), Business Strategies for Sustainable Development: Leveraging Industry 5.0 and Circular Pharmaceutical Supply Chains to Overcome Medicine Waste. Bus Strat Env. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 13.3)
Bhattacharyya, S., Sarkar, B.D., Sarkar, S., Singh, P.K. and Manatkar, R. (2025), "Developing a reintegration index (RI) for a closed-loop supply chain network in the automobile industry", Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: B, Scopus, Impact Factor: 5.1)
Sarkar, B.D. and Gupta, L. (2024), "Performance enhancement of port logistics: a framework using hybrid approach", Journal of Advances in Management Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (Scopus, Impact Factor: 3.3)
Sarkar, B.D., Shardeo, V., Mir, U.B. and Negi, H. (2024), "Harvesting success: Metaverse adoption in agriculture sector as a sustainable business strategy", Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 37 No. 6, pp. 1858-1884. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 7.6)
Manatkar, R.P., Saha, S. and Sarkar, B.D. (2024), "Guest editorial: Resilience in the cold chain: a critical analysis of coordination mechanisms", Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 449-473. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 3.4)
Sonar, H., Sarkar, B. D., Joshi, P., Ghag, N., Choubey, V., & Jagtap, S. (2024). Navigating barriers to reverse logistics adoption in circular economy: An integrated approach for sustainable development. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 100165. (Scopus, Impact Factor: 6.9)
Sarkar, B. D., Shardeo, V., Dwivedi, A., & Pamucar, D. (2024). Digital transition from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0 in smart manufacturing: A framework for sustainable future. Technology in Society, 78, 102649. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 10.1)
Sarkar, B. D., Sharma, I., & Shardeo, V. (2024) A Multi-Method Examination of Barriers to Traceability in Industry 5.0-Enabled Digital Food Supply Chains. International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 7.3)
Shardeo, V., Sarkar, B. D., Mir, U. B., & Kaushik, P. (2024). Adoption of Metaverse in Healthcare Sector: An Empirical Analysis of its Enablers. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.6)
Sarkar, B. D., Gupta, L., & Shankar, R. (2024). Modeling Adoption of Sustainable Green Energy: An Integrated Approach Using FERA. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.6)
Joshi, P.V., Sarkar, B.D. and Choubey, V.M. (2024), "An integrated approach for modeling critical success factors for supply chain finance ecosystem", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 2.2)
Bandyopadhyay, A., Sarkar, B. D., Hossain, M. E., Rej, S. & Mallick, M. A. (2024). Modelling and forecasting India's electricity consumption using artificial neural networks. OPEC Energy Review, 00, 1–13. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 1.5)
Sarkar, B.D., Sharma, I. & Gupta, S. Waste minimization in agri-food supply chain: perspective for sustainable development. Environment, Development and Sustainability (2023). (Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.7)
Pamucar, D., Sarkar, B. D., Shardeo, V., Soni, T. K., & Dwivedi, A. (2023). An integrated interval programming and input-output knowledge model for risk and resiliency management. Decision Analytics Journal, 100317. (Scopus)
Sarkar, B. D., Kharde, Y., & Bakshi, A. (2023), Strategizing the online healthcare supply chain management in rural areas: A study of critical success factors. Business Strategy & Development. (Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.8)
Sarkar, B.D. and Gupta, L. (2023), "Analyzing the impact of Russia-Ukraine crisis on the Indian economy using input-output modeling", Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 3.9)
Shardeo, V., & Sarkar, B. D. (2023). Adoption of hydrogen-fueled freight transportation: A strategy toward sustainability. Business Strategy and the Environment, 1– 18. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 12.5)
Bhattacharyya, S. Sarkar, B. D. Sarkar and R. Manatkar, (2023) "Risk Modeling Framework for Strategic and Operational Intervention to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Closed-Loop Supply Chain," in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. (ABDC: A, Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.6)
Sarkar, B.D., Shankar, R. and Kar, A.K. (2022), "Severity analysis and risk profiling of port logistics barriers in the Industry 4.0 era", Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (ABDC: B, Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.8)
Sarkar, B. D., Shankar, R., & Kar, A. K. (2023). Port logistic issues and challenges in the Industry 4.0 era for emerging economies: an India perspective. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 30(1), 50-74. (ABDC: B, Scopus, Impact Factor: 4.8)
Sarkar, B. D., Shankar, R., & Kar, A. K. (2022). A scenario-based interval-input output model to analyze the risk of COVID-19 pandemic in port logistics. Journal of Modelling in Management, 17(4), 1456-1480. (ABDC: C, Scopus, Impact Factor: 2.2)
Sarkar, D., & Shankar R., Understanding the barriers of port logistics for effective operation in the Industry 4.0 era: Data-Driven Decision Making, 2021, Journal of Information Management: Data Insights. (Scopus)

Publications - Conference Papers:

Shardeo, V., Sarkar, B.D. (2025). Determinants of Sustainable Freight Transportation: Application of Bayesian Best Worst Method. In: Sahu, P.K., Agarwal, A., Kathuria, A., Velaga, N.R. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG 2023), Volume 3. CTRG 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 422. Springer, Singapore.
Sharma, V., Pillai, S., Pathak, P., Pal, P., Sarkar, B.D., Yadav, V. (2024). IoT and Supply Chain Interoperability: Bridging the Connectivity Gap. In: Hassanien, A.E., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A., Kumar, P. (eds) Innovative Computing and Communications. ICICC 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1043. Springer, Singapore.
Sarkar, B. D., & Sharma, I. (2023), Analyzing the Barriers to Implementing Industry 4.0 for Enhanced Traceability in the Agri-Food Supply Chain" has been published in Engineering Proceedings.
Sarkar, B. D., & Shardeo, V. (2023), Analysis of Barriers Affecting Performance of Port Logistics in Industry 4.0. In 13th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
Sarkar, D., Shankar R., & Kumar A. K., Modelling the barriers of port logistics effectiveness using ISM approach, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Washington, USA, May 2-6, 2019.
Sarkar, B. D., Shankar, S., Verma, S., & Singh, A. K. (2016, January). Utilization of television white space for high-speed Wi-Fi application TVWS usage. In Cloud System and Big Data Engineering (Confluence), 2016 6th International Conference (pp. 240-243) IEEE at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India.
Sarkar, B. D., Shankar, S., Thakur, A., & Chaurasiya, H. (2015, September). Resonant frequency determination of rectangular patch antenna using Neural Network. In Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT), 2015 1st International Conference on(pp. 915-917). IEEE at UPES, University Dehradun, India.
Sarkar, B. D., Shankar, S., & Chaurasiya, H. (2015, December). Prediction of length & width of a rectangular patch antenna using ANN. In India Conference (INDICON), 2015 Annual IEEE(pp. 1-4). IEEE at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Shankar, S., Sarkar, B. D., Chaurasiya, H., & Thakur, S. (2015, December). 5G-A near Future: Prerequisites. In Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2015 International Conference on(pp. 481-485). IEEE at Gyan Ganga Group of Institutions, Jabalpur, India.
Shankar, S., Sarkar, B. D., Chaurasiya, H., & Thakur, S. (2015, December). Microstrip Antenna's Impedance Analysis Using Different ANN Training Algorithms: Comparative Study. In Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2015 International Conference on(pp. 30-33). IEEE.
Shankar, S., Sarkar, B. D., & Chaurasiya, H. Ascertaining Resonant Frequency of Rectangular Patch Antenna using Neural Network. Communications on Applied Electronics (CAE) – ISSN : 2394-4714 168, 70, at Kolkata July 2015.
Shankar, S., Sarkar, B. D., Sabitha, S., & Mehrotra, D. (2016, January). Performance analysis of student learning metric using K-mean clustering approach K-mean cluster. In Cloud System and Big Data Engineering (Confluence), 2016 6th International Conference(pp. 341-345). IEEE.

Publications - Case Study:

Sarkar, B.D., Joshi, P.V. and Shah, N. (2023), "Reverse milk run – the logistics retrenchment strategy", Vol. 13 No. 4.

Publications – Book Chapters:

Shardeo, V., & Sarkar, B. D. (2023, December). Determinants of Sustainable Freight Transportation: Application of Bayesian Best Worst Method. In Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (pp. 245-258). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
Sharma, V., Pillai, S., Pathak, P., Pal, P., Sarkar, B. D., & Yadav, V. (2024, February). IoT and Supply Chain Interoperability: Bridging the Connectivity Gap. In International Conference On Innovative Computing And Communication (pp. 697-715). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Guest Editor/Session Chair/Jury Members/:

Selected as Editorial Board Member- Discover Sustainability at Springer Nature.
Selected as a reviewer for the IEEE Sponsored 2025 4^th OPJU International Technology Conference on Smart Computing for Innovation and Advancement in Industry 5.0, held from April 9^th to 11^th, 2025.
Guest Editor: Special Issue “Building Industry 5.0 ecosystems using Emerging Information and Communication Technologies” on International Journal of Information Management Data Insights (Scopus, CiteScore: 19.2).
Selected as a Jury for OPEX Championship 2024, held at SIOM, Nashik.
Selected as a Session Chair in ICOSCM, 2023 organized in SIOM, Nashik.
Selected as a Session Chair in NSRC, 2023 conference organized in SIOM, Nashik.
Selected as a Session Chair in POMS 2019 Annual Conference at Hilton Hotel, Washington D.C., USA

FDP/MDP Conducted/Organized

Organized MDP for WRD Batch:V on 3^rd Feb – 8^th Feb 25
Organized FDP on “Research Methodologies” on 5^th and 6^th Oct, 2023.
Organized FDP on “Intellectual Property Rights” on 24^th March, 2023.
Taken MDP on “Warehouse and International Logistics Management” for Centiro.
Taken MDP on “Logistics and Commercials” for EMP, AIMA.
Taken MDP on “Materials and Warehouse Management” for Webtech.