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For the last twelve years, Dr. Anil Kumr Bandrana has been associated with teaching and research. Before joining LMU, he was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Decision Sciences at the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement, University of Derby, UK. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He did his graduation in Mathematics (Hons) and M.Sc. (Mathematics) from Kurukshetra University, India. He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and qualified National Eligibility Test (NET), in June 2011. He has contributed over 150+ research papers in internationally referred journals, and conferences at the international level. He has published his research work in A*/A as per ABDC indexed and 4*/3* as per ABS journals like the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM), Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (TRE), Journal of Business Research (JBR), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), Production Planning & Control (PPC), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC), Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE), Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (JRCS), Journal of Cleaner Production (JCP etc. Due to his remarkable contributions to the literature, he has been listed in the ‘World Ranking Top 2%’ researchers by Stanford University-Elsevier list in October 2022. He is an Associate Editor of Heliyon-Information Science (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 3.776, SCIE/SSCI & Scopus Indexed) and the International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences.
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Dr Vipul Jain is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as a French Government researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in the European project I* PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from UK. Vipul has more than 85 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, as well as conference papers and books chapters, is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, and an Editorial Board member for seven international journals. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of Logistics and Supply Chain management in an exhaustive study entitled “Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11” conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as a scientific and advisory committee member for various international conferences. He was the Programme Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Programme at IIT Delhi, and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programmes/Training Programmes for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organisations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Anil Kumar Bandrana,
Prof. (Dr.) Vipul Jain,