Title: Contract analysis for rotavirus vaccine supply chain in India
Speaker: Dr. Dheeraj Chandra, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
Day, Date and Time: Monday, November 8, 2021, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
Abstract:
Rotavirus is an infectious disease that affects millions of children every year in developing and developed nations. According to the world health organization estimates of 2013, approximately 0.2 million children under five years died of rotavirus globally, of which 22% of children were from India. Through discussion of experts, we identify that the existing rotavirus vaccine procurement system of universal immunization program (UIP) India from the single supplier neglects the uncertain nature of demand and considers only stochastic production yield. We study the rotavirus vaccine supply chain (VSC) of child immunization program India with UIP as purchaser and Rotavac (One of the four types of rotavirus vaccine) producer as the supplier. We analyze the traditional wholesale price (WSP) contract for the existing situation and report that the WSP contract cannot coordinate the VSC. We propose a subsidy contract for the existing situation for channel coordination. Furthermore, we propose a hybrid contract by considering demand and production yield uncertainty to coordinate the VSC. We validate our findings with a case study reference in a real field setting. Our findings will be beneficial to the policy-makers of UIP India and other nations’ child immunization programs to optimize rotavirus VSC performance.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Dheeraj Chandra is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur since August 2019. He did his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from IIT Roorkee and M. Tech in Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has 20 months of industrial experience as a Business Analyst at Genpact Bengaluru, where he handled the logistics and supply chain operations of General Electric (GE) USA. He has about 1 year of Teaching Experience with private and government organizations. He has published 7 papers in international journals, 1 book chapter, and also presented papers in 3 international conferences. His 1 paper is published in the renowned journal Omega. He has served as a Reviewer for various international journals like Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Emerging Markets, etc.
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