Ramesh Kumar

Overview:
Prof. Ramesh Kumar is an assistant professor in Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques (OMQT) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bodh Gaya. Before joining  IIM Bodh Gaya, he worked at the Amrita School of Business Coimbatore, IIM (formerly NITIE) Mumbai, and Intel Technology Pvt. Ltd. He earned a doctoral degree in operations and supply chain management from the Indian Institute of Management Mumbai and a master’s degree in industrial and management engineering from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. Before his doctoral studies, he worked as a research assistant at IIM Ahmedabad. His primary research interests are in digital twins, simulation modeling, and mathematical modeling approaches in the applications of supply chain and transportation problems.

Academic Background:

• PhD: Operations and Supply Chain Management, Indian Institute of Management (formerly NITIE), Mumbai, India
• MTech: Industrial & Management Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur, India.

Teaching Interest:

• Optimization and Decision Techniques
• Business Statistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Simulation Modeling and Analytics
• Supply Chain Analytics

Research Interest:

• Supply Chain Digital Twin.
• Simulation Modeling
• Supply Chain Network Design
• Optimization and mixed-integer linear programming
• Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Analysis

Publications
Research Publications

• Bhide, N., Mandal, J., Kumar, R., & Tiwari, M. K. (2026). Joint bunker fuel and freight revenue management in liner shipping: A decision-focused learning approach. International Journal of Production Economics, 109857.
• Kumar, A., and Kumar, R. (2025). Improving Efficiency of Steel Converter Facility: A Digital Twin and Reinforcement Learning Approach, International Journal of Production Research, 1-16
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale, R., Kumar, M., & Tiwari, M. K. (2024). Managing COVID-19 food supply chain disruptions in India: a case study of public distribution system. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 1-22. 
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale, R., & Tiwari, M. K. (2022). Scaling up the Digitalization of the Public Distribution System: A COVID-19 Pandemic Impetus.  Ifac-papersonline, 55(10), 55-60.
• Singh, S., Kumar, R., Panchal, R., & Tiwari, M. K. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 on logistics systems and disruptions in food supply chain. International Journal of Production Research, 1-16.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale, R., & Tiwari, M. K. (2020). Quantitative approaches for the integration of production and distribution planning in the supply chain: a systematic literature review. International Journal of Production Research, 1-27.

Conference Presentations

• Kumar, R., Kumar, A. (2024) “Truck-Drone Delivery System for Last-Mile Logistics: A Simulation Modelling Approach.” 57th Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI-2024): International Conference of Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. December 12-14, 2024.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale, Tiwari MK. (2022) Scaling up the Digitalization of the Public Distribution System: A COVID-19 Pandemic Impetus. MIM 2022:  10th   IFAC Conference on Manufacturing  Modeling, Management, and Control. Nantes, France. June 22-24, 2022.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale, and Tiwari MK. (2022). Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Case Study of Maharashtra, India, 32nd Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), April 21-25, 2022.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale., Tiwari MK. (2021) Resilient Supply Chain Network Design for Production and Distribution Planning, 9th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. December 13-15, 2021.
• Dutta G, Kumar R, Natesan S, Roy D (2021) Efficient Distribution of Compressed Natural Gas for Sabarmati Gas Limited Fueling Stations in Gujarat, India, with Simulation, 22nd conference of the international federation of operational research societies (IFORS) Hanyang University, South Korea. August 23-27, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2021) A Risk Mitigation Approach for Resilient Supply Chain Network Considering Uncertain Demand, IISE Annual Conference, May 22-25, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2021) Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Distribution System, 31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) April 30-05, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2020) Integrated Production and Distribution Planning with Supply Chain Disruption and Risk Mitigation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 8-13, 2020.
• Mishra, A., Kumar, R., Sharma, V. (2019) Modeling of industry 4.0 based processing for the design of supply chain network: An agri-business case study. 52nd Annual Convention of The Operational Research Society of India & International Conference, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. December 15-18,2019.
• Kumar, R., Gokhale, R., Ganapathy, L. (2019) Modeling of Production and Distribution Planning in the Flexible Supply Chain. 19th Global Conference on Flexible System Management (GLOGIFT-19) Flexibility, Innovation and Sustainable Business, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. December 06-08, 2019.
• Yadav A.K., Kumar, R., Parhi, S. (2018) Export Performance of Horticulture Crops Using Systems Approach. 12th Annual ISDSI Conference on Data-Driven Decision Making in the Digital Age, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India. December 27-30, 2018.
• Kumar, R., Gokhale, R., Ganapathy, L. (2018) Supply Chain Flexibility Introduction, Classification, and its Measures. 18th Global Conference on Digitization and Flexibility for Organizational Management and Transformation, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. December 18-20, 2018.

Case studies

• Das D, Jha S, Pandey N, Kumar R & Tiwari, M. K. (2025). ECU Worldwide: Data-Driven Customer Retention Management IVEY Case Publishing

Professional Membership:

• Life Member of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), India
• Life Member of the Analytics Society of India (ASI), India
• Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), USA
• Member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), USA
• Member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), USA
• Member of Manufacturing Society N.I.T, Jamshedpur, India

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