Recent work involves exploring the role of contracts in facilitating co-ordination among different players such that the co-ordination results in supply chain optimality, apart from being beneficial to individual players. Other work includes investigating the stability and performance of various policies of incorporating returned goods in a supply chain by the paradigm of reverse logistics. Previous work also included joint pricing and ordering decisions for supply chains involving perishable products.
Faculty: Narayan Rangaraj, Jayendran Venkateswaran, N. Hemachandra, Mallikarjuna Rao