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  Professor of
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  Office:
  S3-01B-53, South Spine S3
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  Education
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  PhD (Operations Research), Case Western Reserve,
  1992 ·       
  MS (Management Science) Case Western Reserve, 1990 ·       
  Post Graduate Diploma in Management, IIM Calcutta,
  1986 ·       
  B.Tech (Mechanical
  Engineering) IIT, Madras 1984  | 
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  Biography
  Dr. S. Viswanathan (Vish)
  is Professor of Operations Management at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang
  Technological University, Singapore, where he has been a faculty member since
  1992. He serves concurrently as Associate Dean (Research). He has also
  assisted the school previously in varied service roles, including Head of the
  Academic Division of IT and Operations Management, Director of PhD Programme,
  Programme Director of MBA (Technology & Operations Specialisation),
  Programme Director of MDP@Nanyang, and Chairman of
  IT Resources Group.
  Vish’s
  teaching interests are in Operations Management, Corporate
  Sustainability, Sustainable Operations, Inventory Theory, Supply Chain & Logistics
  Management and Optimization. His research interests are in Inventory
  Management, Sustainable
  Operations, Policies for regulating carbon
  emissions, Reverse Logistics & Remanufacturing, Transportation
  Scheduling & Timetabling, and Supply Chain & Service Operations. His research has been published
  in Financial Times and Business Week ranked top tier Business journals such
  as Management Science, Operations Research, and Production
  & Operations Management, and
  other top journals such as Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, International Journal of
  Production Research, European
  Journal of Operational Research,
  Operations Research Letters, Journal
  of the Operational Research Society, International
  Journal of Production Economics, Integrated Manufacturing Systems,
  International Journal of Technology and Management, International Journal of
  Logistics, and International
  Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.  He is very active as a Senior Editor, Editorial Board Member, or
  Associate Editor in top journals such as Decision
  Sciences, Production &
  Operations Management, and International
  Journal of Production Research. He has
  made several appearances in Who’s who in the World, Who’s Who in Asia, Who’s
  Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering lists.
  He was awarded the prestigious Nanyang Award for Research Excellence in 2010.   | 
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  Selected Publications
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  N. Bryan, M. Srinivasan, and S. Viswanathan
  (2016), “Managing Supply
  Systems with Partial Information on Shipment Locations,” Accepted and Forthcoming, International Journal of Production Research.  ·     
  S. Ghosh, R. Piplani, and S. Viswanathan
  (2015) “A new two-bin policy for
  inventory systems with differentiated demand classes,” Production and Operations Management,
  24, 840-850.  ·     
  S. Axsater, and S.
  Viswanathan (2012), “On the value of customer information for an independent
  supplier in a continuous review inventory system,” European Journal of Operational Research, 221,
  340-347. ·     
  M. M. Srinivasan and S.
  Viswanathan, (2010), “Optimal WIP Inventory
  Levels for High-Variety Low-Volume Manufacturing Systems,” IIE
  Transactions, 42, 379-391. ·     
  Viswanathan, (2007), “An Algorithm for
  determining the best lower bound for the Stochastic Joint Replenishment
  Problem,” Operations Research, 55,
  992-996. ·     H. Widiarta, S. Viswanathan, and R. Piplani, (2007), “On the
  Effectiveness of Top-Down Approach for Forecasting Autoregressive Demands,” Naval Research
  Logistics, 54, 176-188. ·     
  S. Viswanathan and R. Piplani, (2001),
  “Coordinating Supply Chain Inventories Through Common Replenishment Epochs,” European Journal of Operational Research,
  129, 277-286.  ·     
  S. Viswanathan, (1997), “Periodic Review (s, S)
  Policies for Joint Replenishment Inventory Systems”, Management Science, 43, 1447-1454. ·      
  S. Viswanathan and K. Mathur,
  (1997), “Integrating Routing and Inventory Decisions in One Warehouse
  Multi-Retailer Multi-Product Distribution Systems”, Management Science, 43, 294-312.  | 
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