S Viswanathan

Prof S. Viswanathan (Vish) is Professor of Operations Management at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he has been a faculty member since 1992. He serves concurrently as Associate Dean (Research). He has also assisted the school previously in varied service roles, including Head of the Academic Division of IT and Operations Management, Director of PhD Programme, Programme Director of MBA (Technology & Operations Specialisation), Programme Director of MDP@Nanyang, and Chairman of IT Resources Group.

Vish obtained a PhD in Operations Research with minor in Operations Management from Case Western Reserve University in 1992, MBA (Gold Medallist) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1986, and B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984.

His teaching interests are in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Operations, Supply Chain & Logistics Management, Inventory Theory, and Optimization. His research interests are in Inventory Management, Sustainable Operations, Policies for regulating carbon emissions, Reverse Logistics & Remanufacturing, Transportation Scheduling & Timetabling, and Supply Chain & Service Operations.

His research has been published in Financial Times and Business Week ranked top tier Business journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Production & Operations Management and Journal of Operations Management, and other top journals such as Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Operations Research Letters, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Technology and Management, International Journal of Logistics, and International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.

Inventory Management, Joint Replenishment Inventory Systems, Sustainable Operations, Policies for regulating carbon emissions, Reverse Logistics & Remanufacturing, Transportation Scheduling & Timetabling, and Supply Chain & Service Operations.