Samir K. Srivastava

• FPM (PhD)
• Professor (Higher Administrative Grade) at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow

We are pleased to share our published article, which proposes a framework for agile decision making for an organization in a blockchain based supply chain. The paper presents a helpful tool called L-Graph that can help in quick decision making based on the values of large number of KPIs. The decision making framework is proposed based on concepts o...

We examine a supply chain where a supplier produces partial substitutable green and non‐green products and sell them in a common market through a buyer. We analyse four scenarios: wholesale price and linear two‐part tariff contracts under full and incomplete information about the buyer's unit cost. Our result demonstrates that the value of informat...

Interest in business groups (BGs) and international strategic alliances (ISAs) has been of interest in recent times for both academics and practice. However, there are scant studies on the interface of ISAs of BGs and their internationalization performance. This study aims to explore the role of ISAs in the internationalization of BG affiliated fir...

Blockchain is not a standalone technology. It is a ledger that ensures the trustworthiness and traceability of data stored on it. Given the Industry 4.0 environment, it will work in integration with state-of-the-art technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), 3D printing (3DP), fog computing, geotagging, artificial intelligence (AI), and swa...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected global supply chains at an unprecedented speed and scale. This paper investigates the supply chain challenges that manufacturing organizations have faced due to the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly in emerging economies. We present a conceptual framework under the dynamic capability theory to analyze challenges and...

Purpose This paper aims to address the conceptual and practical challenges in integrating triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability in the agriculture supply chain (ASC). It identifies the key enablers for each of the three dimensions of TBL sustainability, analyses their causal relationships as well as cross-dimensional interactions under each TBL d...

Despite the abundance of articles on product recalls, surprisingly there have been few empirical studies. This paper investigates empirically the linkage between product recalls and the four types of product variety seen on the assembly shops of Indian automobile firms. A negative binomial fixed effects model was fitted on the panel data comprising...

The choice of appropriate governance structures for public infrastructure projects is a major challenge for governments. The extant literature provides ample theoretical support to analyse various public–private management regimes for public infrastructure service delivery, but there is little discussion on the innovation incentives of specific con...

Daniel Susskind. 2020. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. Penguin Books Limited, pp. 326, $49.50. ISBN: 9780241321096.

Presently, there is high turbulence in the Indian sugar industry. The misalignment of the incentives of major stakeholders is leading the industry to a vicious downslide. Hence, it becomes important to study the current situation, its dynamics and future trends under different circumstances. In this paper, we have established the relationship betwe...

Food chain integrity demands strengthening the position of end consumers in the food system. Shaping this consumer-centric agenda leads to a multi-dimensional quest where actors in the food chain need to remodel their production, processing and disclosure norms by focusing on end consumers’ expectations. Food chain integrity so far has largely been...

Blockchain is a disruptive technology that promises to embed visibility and trustworthiness in supply chains. This paper examines the perceived role of blockchain in improving SCM and profitability of organisations in the manufacturing industry. It establishes the blockchain benefits for the manufacturing industry using the process of scale develop...

Mitigation of plastic waste is a serious concern for policymakers. The present waste management system in India is grossly ineffective, with a significant proportion of mismanaged plastic waste. This paper identifies the effective policy mix to mitigate the plastic waste problem in India using system dynamics modelling. It simulates four major poli...

Blockchain application beyond cryptocurrencies is popularly known as Enterprise Blockchain (EBC). This paper evaluates the value-adding potential of EBC by analysing applications from a theoretical perspective and evaluating the current pilot projects & start-ups from a practice perspective. The extent of truthfulness in exceptional hype around EBC...

Blockchain application beyond cryptocurrencies is popularly known as enterprise blockchain (EBC). This paper evaluates the value-adding potential of EBC by analysing applications from a theoretical perspective and evaluating the current pilot projects and startups from a practice perspective. The extent of truthfulness in exceptional hype around EB...

The rising number of COVID-19 cases and economic implications of lockdown measures indicate the tricky balancing act policy makers face as they implement the subsequent phases of 'unlock'. We develop a model to examine how lockdown and social distancing measures have influenced the behavioral conduct of people. The current situation highlights that...

Governments and corporations have an opportunity to lead the transition toward sustainable consumption and production by shifting their purchasing power toward environmentally responsible supply networks. But this will require reliable information on complex global supply networks. What information and decision support tools do governments and corp...

There is much scope and applications of AI in supply chains as it offers contextual intelligence to supply chains. This can be used to gain new insights in consumer behavior, procurement, manufacturing and service operations as well as in activities like demand estimation and fulfillment, product and service design, warehousing & logistics, and ret...

There is limited understanding of how various pressures foster sustainable public procurement, particularly in the context of developed versus developing economies. Using Institutional Theory, this paper develops a theoretical model to provide a nuanced understanding of how institutional pressures and citizens’ attitude towards sustainability affec...

In this chapter, we present an account of the journey of hub location problems in transportation networks from the classical single allocation p-hub median problem to the current problems involving complexities like sustainability, uncertainty, competition, environmental consciousness through government’s regulations and green sensitive consumer re...

Permissioned blockchain utilized by any organization is commonly known as Enterprise Blockchain (EBC). EBC represents a popular investment option as enterprise system in the service industry. This paper aims at analyzing the perception of EBC among practitioners in service industry. As significant hype prevails about EBC usefulness in service indus...

The authors express special gratitude to the anonymous referee for the useful inputs and constructive feedback which helped in improving the quality of the paper signifi cantly. Shuvabrata Chakraborty (fpm17010@iiml.ac.in) and Samir K Srivastava (samir@iiml.ac.in) are with the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. With rising concerns about the...

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In this paper, we explore coordination of a sustainable risk-neutral supply chain that faces greening effort dependent demand. We propose a framework for exclusive distribution of sustainability responsibilities in a decentralised setting. We classify decentralised supply chain according to distribution of responsibilities for greening and social e...

Purpose: Government e-Procurement systems are generating tender level process event data which has not being analysed much. This paper presents a data visualization tool to benchmark the government tendering process. This tool collects, collates and presents e-Procurement process data in a meaningful way that enables comparisons and benchmarking le...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the sustainability performance of an aircraft manufacturing firm. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper hybrid MCDM method namely fuzzy best worst method (FBWM) has been developed to assess sustainability performance using a quantitative single composite index (CI). The FBWM relies on multiple...

The importance of sustainable operations in supply chains has been widely recognised in practice and the extant literature. In this paper, we study coordination issues of a sustainable supply chain that arise due to simultaneous consideration of greening and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives undertaken by supply chain agents. We spe...

Purpose A spurt in the usage of additive manufacturing (AM) is observed in industrial applications to produce final parts along with rapid prototyping and rapid tooling. Despite the potential benefits of on-demand and on-location production of customised or complex shape parts, widespread implementation of this disruptive production technology is...

Amrut Mody School of Management will play host to the XXI Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM) in December 21-23, 2017. The objective of the conference is to provide participants with a platform to disseminate and share their knowledge and experiences through the presentation of research papers, panel discus...

In this paper, we propose a Generalised-Fuzzy-TOPSIS method as a versatile evaluation model. The model is suitable for different types of fuzzy or interval-valued numbers, with or without subjective weights of criteria being defined by evaluators. Additionally, we extend the final ranking step of the TOPSIS method, which is the calculation of close...

Invited Talk in the 6th Annual Management Convention of Noida Management Association, Hotel Fortune Plaza, Sector- 27, Noida, November 24, 2017.

Invited Talk in Conference

While governments in India have adopted electronic means to streamline their procurement process, the data generated by these portals have not been used to derive any meaningful information. This article presents a data-driven, multi-method approach to use benchmarking as a tool to improve the public procurement tendering process. Developing the re...

Additive Manufacturing (AM), colloquially known as 'three-dimensional printing or 3D printing', is defined as " a process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies ". The McKinsey Global Institute 2013 report puts AM as one of the twelve potentially econo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present issues and challenges faced during a firm’s facility relocation decision aimed at improving both cost and service performance in an innovative service context. Design/methodology/approach The reader is given background of the decision-making process behind single service facility relocation decisio...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present issues and challenges faced during a firm’s facility relocation decision aimed at improving both cost and service performance in an innovative service context. Design/methodology/approach – The reader is given background of the decision-making process behind single service facility relocation decis...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify various risk drivers which affect a food processing supply chain and to create a map of how those risk drivers propagate risks through the supply chain and impact important performance measures. Design/methodology/approach This study involves experts from food processing companies to elucidate the c...

Invited Paper for Souvenir, BHU Engineer’s Alumni, Lucknow, November 15, 2015, pp. 23-24.

Outbound logistics management practices, specific to India have drawn limited attention in the past. Recently though, this sector has garnered renewed attention of researchers and practitioners. Through an exploratory study, we attempt to understand and illustrate the outbound logistics management practices of automotive industry in India. Outbound...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present issues and challenges faced during a firm’s facility relocation decision aimed at improving both cost and service performance in an innovative service context. Design/methodology/approach – The reader is given background of the decision-making process behind single service facility relocation deci...

Due to the rampant increase in disasters globally, resilience in supply chain and logistics is receiving greater research attention in various parts of the world. This paper considers the role and contribution of social welfare supply chains in providing resilience. This is a causal phenomenon which has been studied through an exploratory research...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out structural analysis of potential supply chain risks and performance measures in fresh food retail by applying interpretive structural modeling (ISM). Design/methodology/approach Inputs were taken from industry experts in identifying and understanding interdependencies among food retail supply chain...

Editorial in Inaugural Issue of Supply Chain & Technology

India's logistics sector is expected to be worth $200 billion by 2020. e-commerce market alone is likely to touch $20 billion by then with the companies investing around $2 billion in logistics, infrastructure and warehousing over the next six years. Investments in logistics infrastructure tripled from about $10 billion in 2003 to $30 billion in 20...

Presently, there is high turbulence in the sugar industry of Uttar Pradesh. The misalignment of the incentives of major stakeholders, namely the farmers, the sugar producers and the regulatory authorities is leading the industry to a vicious downslide. Therefore, it becomes important to study the current position, its dynamics and future trends und...

Out of the total power generation in India, majority (~90%) comes from non-renewable sources which mainly rely on fossil fuels. This has huge environmental implications. Renewable energy as an alternative is being actively promoted by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and National Action Plan on Climate Change. Although, power generation from on...

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) initially came to existence in manufacturing in the late 1980s and has been around for about three decades now It is the long-term collaborative planning process of production levels relative to sales within the realm of a manufacturing planning and control system at the Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) level. S&OP has...

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) initially came to existence in manufacturing in the late 1980s and has been around for about three decades now. It is the long-term collaborative planning process of production levels relative to sales within the realm of a manufacturing planning and control system at the Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) level. S&OP has...

The Resilience in Humanitarian Supply Chain is being research aggressively in different parts of the world. This paper considers the Social Welfare Supply Chains which are a distinctive type of Humanitarian Supply Chain. Through a case study on Humanitarian Relief Chain of an Indian non-governmental organization, we show how resilience can be broug...

Logistics is the key to economic competitiveness, growth and poverty reduction. Each country has its particular challenges and opportunities, when it comes to logistics. This concept paper deals with the problems faced and possible solution approaches for internal reforms and other actions required for enhancing exports in logistic services from In...

The proposed approach helps to identify all pertinent factors and causal relationships which influence value creation cross-border joint ventures (CBJVs).

A few months ago, FICCI estimated the logistics sector in India to reach $200 billion by 2020. Similarly, the Ministry of Road Transport, Government of India, had said that India's logistics sector is likely to cross the $200 billion mark by 2020. The underlying assumption was that this sector will grow by 10-12 percent over the next few years and...

Logistics is the key to economic competitiveness, growth and poverty reduction. This year’s budget estimates the logistics and related sectors to grow at around 5.2% only. The allocations to logistics infrastructure continue albeit not to the extent the industry would have liked. The budget plans for several industrial corridors including providing...

Few good signals and trends were observed in the logistics sector during 2013. There have been investments in roads, railways, ports and highways and implementation of ICT, many of which have started showing good results. There has been sufficient investment in cold chains, specially related to processed food. A few firms in integrated logistics bu...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate e‐reverse auctions (eRA) implementation experiences across a diverse group of firms and sectors in the Indian context, to derive useful insights for theory and practice. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a qualitative multiple case study following direct observation of objec...

Reverse logistics (RL) is the process of moving products from the consumer - the traditional final destination - to the manufacturer, the point of origin. The concept involves taking a long-term view of products from 'cradle to grave' including possible 'resurrection'. It is gaining justifiable popularity among society, governments and industry. To...

Physically distributed operations environments demand high-level existing and emerging organizational and inter-organizational communication systems such as the Internet, radio frequency identification (RFID), e-commerce and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to exchange information at various levels of logistics chain. e-Commerce Logistics (ECL) a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to benchmark the solvency status of Indian general insurance firms. Design/methodology/approach The paper collects, compiles and analyses the key financial, operational and business data of eight Indian insurance firms. The authors first decide on initial firm‐specific economic variables and use data of last fi...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have emerged in the recent past as a dynamic medium for channeling transactions between customers and firms in a virtual marketplace. In particular, the World Wide Web (www) and m-commerce have emerged as powerful channels for supply chain radically revamping the structure of the traditional supp...

Supply chain risk management goes beyond traditionally insured risks such as tangible assets and related liabilities. The objective of this paper is to use SCRM framework for application of Value at Risk (VaR) methodology for manufacturing firms. The concepts used by financial institution are used as a reference, for coming up with proper risk meas...

This paper measures and compares volume flexibility across 500 Indian firms using financial statement analysis to derive useful insights. These firms from six broad sectors were classified into three categories on basis of sales revenues. The results suggest that small firms derive their volume flexibility competitive advantage from their ability t...

The Indian logistics industry is, undoubtedly, growing at a faster pace. However, the sector is suffering from talent shortage, both in terms of quantity and quality. Who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs? Is it Indian universities or the industry itself? Jasleen Kaur explores the reason. SPECIAL FEATURE Talent Crunch: Right education...

This paper explores and examines whether profit driven reverse logistics is a feasible and worthwhile proposition. A decision-making framework that captures real life scenarios and provides near optimal solutions related to various aspects of reverse logistics for making various decisions in a profit-motivated context has been suggested. We cover p...

In this paper, we present a snapshot view of seven firms in North India in context of Green Supply Chain Management (GrSCM) practices. Our field visits focused on assessing the degree of awareness about GrSCM, firms’ strategic intent and initiatives, internal environmental management systems, tools and techniques used, collaborative GrSCM efforts u...

Organizations have to simultaneously meet various stakeholders’ demands related to delivery times, supply chains (horizontal, vertical and cross integration), quality, production processes, equipment, safety, environmental concerns, workforce etc. They must be driven by both effective and efficient management approaches and strategies to do so. One...

The challenge of a growing economy is an exciting time for warehousing in the Indian context. It is gaining the focus and attention of many firms and supply chains. Many firms are into warehousing capacity expansion; 3PL have come up in the present decade and are expanding rapidly; and even logistics parks are coming up. Simultaneously, many firms...

Project Scheduling and Monitoring is an integral part of working in many government departments world-wide. In our present exploratory study, we take an overview of these through case studies of two large scale civil projects in the Indian context. We focus on administrative set-up, project activities and processes, personnel and resources deployme...

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is the buzzword today after the quality revolution of the 1980s and the supply chain revolution of the 1990s. It is gaining justifiable popularity among society, governments and industry. In recent years a rapid increase of corporate initiatives and academic publications on SSCM can be observed. Environmen...

Vertical Integration decisions answer the question about how much of the value chain a firm should hold. Given the rapidly growing business in most sectors, firms now have an option of vertical integration, horizontal diversification, global diversification or even hiving off certain parts of their value chains. We pick up a few firms operating in...

Libraries today are driven by both effective and efficient management approaches and strategies to meet users’ demands. They are staffed by professionals whose job is to help people meet and manage their information needs and are the ideal places to offer public access to information and communications technology (ICT) resources, as they are found...

Electronic Reverse Auctions (eRA) enable suppliers to compete on-line in real time and are changing the way firms and their consortia select and behave with their suppliers worldwide. Their importance from supply chain perspective cannot be overstated. The growing adoption of eRA has motivated the present work. Based on multiple case studies, this...

Collection and recycling of product returns is gaining interest in business and research worldwide. Growing green concerns and advancement of green supply chain management (GrSCM) concepts and practices make it all the more relevant. Inputs from literature and informal interviews with 84 stakeholders are used to develop a conceptual model for simul...

Transition from class banking to mass banking and from sellers' market to buyers' market is drastically changing India's banking sector. There is an expanding middle class of 250 to 300 million people in need of varied banking services. According to the RBI, commercial banks' deposits were at Rs 30,75,224 crore on March 14, 2008. The bank credit ....