Speaker: Dr. Devadutta Kulkarni
Date and time: 24 February 2025 (Monday), 4 – 5 p.m.
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Title: Designing and Optimizing Supply Footprint
Abstract: Designing and Optimizing Supply Footprint Operating and transforming cost-effective and resilient supply footprint is critical to the profitable and productive manufacturing enterprise. We present a simple framework for categorizing key supply footprint transformation opportunities across strategic vs. tactical time horizons and low to elevated risk of execution. We further use examples of specific commodity footprints across the steel to scrap value chain and highlight the appropriate enterprise analytics enablers for managing effective execution.
Bio: Dr. Kulkarni's current interests include the application of supply chain optimization and risk analysis in enterprise-level decision technologies for procurement and supply chain management. He brings in 40 years of experience in academic research and industrial innovation spanning productive career across automotive, IT and university ecosystems. He worked most recently as Principal Scientist at TCS, and as Finance Manager and Staff Researcher at General Motors. His academic career spanned roles as professor of mathematics and liaison for sponsored university consortium. Besides being a forefront researcher in the supply chain optimization and risk analysis, he has delivered significant value in the areas of automotive procurement, product development, manufacturing, and supply chain. This led to playing a key role in the transformation of global business processes with complex interfaces across business and technology ecosystems. His digital manufacturing experience included leading product development in the areas of managing product configurations, revenue growth, and on-time part delivery. His expertise in building global technology partnerships with institutes and consortia helped in configuring innovative industry frameworks and joint patents. He received a B.S. in mathematics from University of Pune, both M.S and Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University.