Vishnu C Rajan

Vishnu C Rajan
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati · Humanities and Social Sciences

PhD (Industrial Engineering & Management)
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

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Additional affiliations
September 2020 - November 2020
National Institute of Technology Calicut
Position
  • Ad-hoc Faculty
June 2022 - July 2023
Vellore Institute of Technology University
Position
  • Assistant Professor
Description
  • Production, Operations & Quantitative Techniques Division
June 2014 - June 2015
KMCT College of Engineering Calicut
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Description
  • Under the mentorship of Dr N. Nagarajan, Professor & Dean, Mechanical Engineering Department, KMCT College of Engineering
Education
July 2015 - November 2020
National Institute of Technology Calicut
Field of study
  • Industrial Engineering & Management
August 2012 - June 2014
College of Engineering Trivandrum
Field of study
  • Industrial Engineering
August 2008 - June 2012
AWH Engineering College
Field of study
  • Mechanical Engineering

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Publications (35)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the distinction and relationships between the significant strategic capabilities for managing risks in supply chains. This intersectional review exposes a substantial conceptual contradiction between the perspectives reported by various researchers. Further, the current paper classifies the liter...
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Purpose Risk management in the healthcare sector is a highly relevant sub-domain and a crucial research area from the humanitarian perspective. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the managerial/supply chain risk factors experienced by the government hospitals in an Indian state. The present paper analyzes the inter-relationships among the sig...
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Public healthcare institutions are the crucial component in the social and economic development of a nation, particularly India. However, public hospitals in India confront multiple operational risk factors that compromise patient satisfaction. Although all the risk factors are essentially critical, the impact potential of any risk factor is ultima...
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Purpose This study aims to develop a hierarchical model that uncovers the relationships between challenges confronting Africa's organ transplant supply chain systems. Design/methodology/approach Eleven challenges (variables) were identified after a comprehensive review of the existing literature. The contextual interactions among these variables w...
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Enhancing the proactive strategic capabilities to withstand the most unfavourable circumstances is always appreciated as a long-term policy rather than incident-based responses. The present research is positioned on this fundamental notion of supply chain risk management with a particular focus on strategic capabilities like reliability and flexibi...
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Purpose Despite their significant economic impact, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain underrepresented in public procurement. While previous research has identified the barriers facing SMEs in public procurement markets, a knowledge gap still exists on how these barriers influence one another in a specific context. Design/methodology...
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The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cultivation of GI-tagged rice varieties in India, focusing on economic, environmental, climatic, social, and cultural factors. Spanning 11 rice varieties across seven states, it aims to assess their impact on livelihoods and income through a longitudinal survey of farmers and stakeholders. Central...
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Women entrepreneurs confront myriad issues related to economic, social, familial, market environments, and regulatory challenges in the rural Indian setting. These issues must be identified and characterized for designing policies/strategies to promote women's entrepreneurship. Accordingly, the key objective of this research is to identify and disc...
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Purpose Research on solar energy adoption offers a multidimensional scope and warrants exploration from multiple perspectives, including political, economic, management, behavioral, policy and innovation aspects. The aim of this paper is to comprehensively consolidate major research findings on the premise of solar energy adoption and to disclose g...
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Purpose The public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food security system established to manage the distribution of food grains at affordable prices. As a result of the population explosion, the long-established PDS system finds it challenging to maintain operational efficiency, quality, trust and transparency. This paper explores the possibil...
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In September 2022, India’s government released the long-awaited National Logistics Policy (NLP), a comprehensive,cross-sectoral framework to upgrade the logistics infrastructure and create an integrated logistics ecosystem in the country.More precisely, the NLP envisages improving transportation infrastructure facilities, including road, rail, air,...
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All living entities consume resources of various kinds. The resources can be renewable or non-renewable. Sustainable production and consumption of resources are required for the continued availability of resources. Indian knowledge system (IKS) emphasises sustainability in the production and consumption of goods and services. The present study anal...
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This research seeks to develop a hierarchical model to explain the interrelationships between key challenges in organ supply chain operations. After reviewing the available literature, eleven factors (variables) were identified. As a system is the result of its interactions rather than its individual parts, we used the interpretive structural model...
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Inventory control is essentially a predominant decision to be undertaken by operations managers of a firm. A proper inventory control system ensures a sufficient amount of goods or materials to meet the firm's demand without facing undersupply or oversupply of materials. Traditionally, decision-makers classify inventory items into various classes o...
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A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product/service to consumers. This network constitutes people, entities, information, activities, and resources. A supply chain disruption occurs when demand or supply spikes or falls unexpectedly, resulting in a massive imbalance between the two. A...
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Supply Chain 4.0 strongly stresses on the viability of supply chains. A viable supply chain is one that is agile, resilient, and sustainable. This article focuses on the resilience aspect of supply chains. The article starts with a brief introduction to the term ‘digital twin' and how it can help supply chains of the future. The next section begins...
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The aim of this study is to develop a model describing the interactions and interdependence between the obstacles to effective implementation of a collaborative model of pandemic preparedness and response. A comprehensive review of the relevant literature highlighted 15 key variables. The contextual interactions between these barrier variables were...
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Inventory management has become a key factor in today's world of uncertainty, particularly in the retail sector. Accordingly, there is a high requirement of managing and controlling the inventory with appropriate policies to elevate the organization's performance. In fact, a proper system has to be implemented for monitoring customer demand. This s...
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Supply chain risk management analyses and controls both internal and external supply chain risks through coordination/collaboration of supply chain partners to ensure profitability and business continuity. Be it internal or external, successful mitigation of these risks has always been a serious concern in the pursuit of customer satisfaction. The...
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This paper consolidates various research outputs in supply chain risk management (SCRM). It presents the techniques employed for managing and modelling supply chain risk drivers in an encapsulated form to aid the risk related decision making in industries. This review paper proposes a hybrid of systematic and descriptive review approach. Initially,...
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This paper consolidates various research outputs in supply chain risk management (SCRM). It presents the techniques employed for managing and modelling supply chain risk drivers in an encapsulated form to aid the risk related decision making in industries. This review paper proposes a hybrid of systematic and descriptive review approach. Initially,...
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Research on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has attracted increased attention in the recent years all over the world. Unlike an ordinary supply chain, sustainable supply chains confront two major hurdles in the planning as well as in the operational stage, namely barriers and risks. Barriers are usually associated with technical, economi...
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This paper presents an overview of different maintenance strategies widely discussed in the industry by consolidating the results and inferences from a wide range of research articles. This information will be useful to maintenance personnel during the selection and execution of maintenance activities to realize the concept of Industry 4.0. The pap...
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Supply chain risks instigate disruptions and uncertainties in various supply chain operations thereby compromising its efficiency and effectiveness. Consequently, managing and mitigating the adverse effects of various exasperating supply chain risks have become a crucial decision-making activity in the current competitive industrial scenario. Enhan...
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Currency demonetisation, WannaCry malware attack and the implementation of a unified goods and services tax (GST) system altogether had recuperative effects on the Indian business environment in the last eight months. These unprecedented events have brought drastic changes in the supply chain operations especially in the form of disruptions and unc...
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The fundamental objective for any organization to remain competitive in the present market conditions is to effectively manage their supply chains under uncertainty and disruptions. Accordingly, supply chain risk mitigation strategy selection has become one of the critical decision making activity in all industries. This paper illustrates a case st...
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The importance of maintenance function has increased due to its role in keeping and improving the availability, product quality, safety requirements and operating cost levels of the process plants. Accordingly, maintenance strategy selection became one of the most important decision making activity in the industry. This paper proposes a general app...
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Natural disasters and its after effects on business operations is one of the major risk factors that supply chain risk management practitioners still find difficult to manage. Researchers in this area have extensively studied the impact of such unpredictable incidents on supply chain performance, major example being the impact of 2011 Japanese eart...
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This paper focus is on framing general benchmarking models for the road transport corporations using the technique of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This is the first attempt for a DEA study on performance of road transport corporations. For the purpose of analysis two more Road Transport Corporations in South India where selected other than Kera...
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Maintenance is a combination of all the technological, administrative and managerial actions during the life cycle of an item intended to keep in, or restore it to a state in which it can perform the required function. Industrial maintenance has two main objectives: viz a high availability of production equipment and low maintenance cost. Reliabili...
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Mobility aids are useful for disabled patients for transportation and a replacement for walking especially in indoor and outdoor environment. Wheelchairs and stretchers are the most commonly used medical equipment for the transportation of patients. Transferring the patients from wheelchair to stretcher or to the medical bed is always an issue for...

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