Ramkumar, Arputham, Prof. Dr.
Short Bio
Dr. Ramkumar M. Arputham is currently working as an Associate Professor in the external pageDepartment of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Raipur. Prior to this assignment, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Logistics Management at ETH Zurich. Previously, he was with the Institute for Financial Management & Research as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.E. in Production Engineering from Anna University, Chennai (2007), Postgraduate Diploma in Management from SCMS, Cochin (2009), and Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2015). His research is interdisciplinary and lies on the interface between operations management and information systems, and encompasses supply chain technologies, supply chain sustainability, and humanitarian operations.
His research has been published in international journals such as Service Science, International Journal of Production Economics, Production Planning & Control, Annals of Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, or IEEE Systems Journal. Furthermore, he regularly presents his work at international conferences, such as the Production and Operations Management Society Conference, the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, the International Annual IPSERA Conference, or the IIE Asian Conference. For attending these conferences, he has received numerous travel grants from the conference societies or his academic home institution.
He is a member of the Production and Operations Management Society, the Decision Sciences Institute, and the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, and an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous international journals.
Selected Publications
- Manupati, Vijaya Kumar/Schoenherr, Tobias/Wagner, Stephan M./Soni, Bhanushree/Panigrahi, Suraj/Ramkumar, M. (2021): Convalescent Plasma Bank Facility Location-Allocation Problem for COVID-19, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, (in press), doi: external page10.1016/j.tre.2021.102517
- Manupati, Vijaya Kumar/Ramkumar, M./Baba, Vinit/Agarwal, Aayush (2021). Selection of the best healthcare waste disposal techniques during and post COVID-19 pandemic era, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 281, 125175, doi: external page10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125175
- Manupati, Vijaya Kumar, Schoenherr, Tobias, Ramkumar, M., Wagner, Stephan M., Pabba, Sai Krishna, Singh, R. Inder Raj (2020): A Blockchain-Based Approach for a Multi-Echelon Sustainable Supply Chain, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 2222-2241, doi: external page10.1080/00207543.2019.1683248
- Kim, Seongtae, Ramkumar, M., Subramanian, Nachiappan (2019). Logistics Service Provider Selection for Disaster Preparation: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 283, No. 1-2, December, pp. 1259-1282, doi: external page10.1007/s10479-018-03129-3
- Sharma, B., Ramkumar, M., Subramanian, N., Malhotra, B. (2019). Dynamic Temporary Blood Facility Location-Allocation During and Post-Disaster Periods, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 283, No. 1-2, December, pp. 705-736, doi: external page10.1007/s10479-017-2680-3
- Ramkumar, M., Schoenherr, Tobias, Wagner, Stephan M., Jenamani, Mamata (2019). Q-TAM: A Quality Technology Acceptance Model for Predicting Organizational Buyers’ Continuance Intentions for E-Procurement Services, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 216, October, pp. 333-348, doi: external page10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.06.003
- Manupati, V.K., Jedidah, S.J., Gupta, S., Bhandari, A., Ramkumar. M. (2019). Optimization of a multi-echelon sustainable production-distribution supply chain system with lead time consideration under carbon emission policies. Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 135, September, pp. 1312-1323, doi: external page10.1016/j.cie.2018.10.010
- Manupati, V.K., Ramkumar, M., Samanta, D. (2018). A multi-criteria decision making approach for the urban renewal in Southern India. Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 42, pp. 471-481, doi: external page10.1016/j.scs.2018.08.011
- Kumar, G., Subramanian, N., Ramkumar, M. (2018). Missing link between sustainability collaborative strategy and supply chain performance: Role of dynamic capability. International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 203, pp. 96-109, doi: external page10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.05.031
- Ramkumar, M., Schoenherr, T., Jenamani, M. (2016). Risk Assessment of Outsourcing E-Procurement Services: Integrating SWOT Analysis with a Modified ANP-Based Fuzzy Inference System, Production Planning & Control, Vol. 27, No. 14, pp. 1171-1190, doi: external page10.1080/09537287.2016.1190877
- Ramkumar, M., Jenamani, M. (2015). Organizational Buyers' Acceptance of Electronic Procurement Services – An Empirical Investigation in Indian Firms, Service Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 272-293, doi: external page10.1287/serv.2015.0110
- Ramkumar, M., Jenamani, M. (2015). Sustainability in Supply Chain Through E-Procurement – An Assessment Framework Based on DANP and Liberatore Score, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1554-1564, doi: external page10.1109/JSYST.2014.2336291
- Ramkumar, M., Jenamani, M. (2012). E-procurement Service Provider Selection – An Analytic Network Process-Based Group Decision-Making Approach, Service Science, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 269-294, doi: external page10.1287/serv.1120.0024