Kunal Gaurav

Mr. Kunal Gaurav

Assistant Professor

Kunal Gaurav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Management and Commerce. He has submitted his doctorate thesis in the area of sustainable supply chain management at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His teaching interests are operations management, project management, inventory management, operations strategy, lean six sigma, and supply chain management.

He has accomplished CPIM and PLS certifications from APICS in addition to being a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He worked for the Projects team at Sterlite Industries, Thoothukudi, where he coordinated with the vendor for engineering, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, delivery, erection and commissioning of five EOT cranes to be set up in the new copper refinery.

Qualifications

  • BE (Industrial and Production)

    Manipal Institute of Technology

  • PGDM (Operations and Marketing)

    Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

  • PhD (Management)

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Experience

Total Years of Experience: 1.5

Industry Experience: 1.5

  • Sustainability
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

National Conference Papers

  • Conceptual Framework for Sustainability in Indian Mining Industry (Feb 27 – 28, 2019: Noida) 4th Global Leadership Research Conference
  • Critical Success Factors for the Implementation of Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Indian Steel Sector (Dec21-23, 2017: Kolkata) International Conference on Advancing Frontiers in Operational Research: Towards a Sustainable World

International Conference Papers

  • Critical Success Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Organizational Performance: An Exploratory Study (May 27-Jun 01. 2019: Mumbai) 15th World Conference on Transportation Research
  • Analysis of Critical Success Factors for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Indian Steel Sector: An Application of Structural Equation Modeling (Oct 22 – 25, 2017: Houston) INFORMS Annual Meeting

National Journal Papers

  • Gaurav, K., Pradhan, R. P. and Shaw, S. (2019). Conceptual Framework for Sustainability in Indian Mining Industry, CASS Studies, 3(1), 272 – 280.
  • Prasad, D. S., Pradhan, R. P., Gaurav, K., Chatterjee, P. P., Kaur, I., Dash, S. and Nayak, S. (2018). Analysing the Critical Success Factors for Implementation of Sustainable Supply Chain Management: An Indian Case Study, Decision 45(1), 3 – 25.

International Journal Papers

  • Prasad, D. S., Pradhan, R. P., Gaurav, K., and Sabat, A. K. (2020). Critical Success Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Organizational Performance: An Exploratory Study, Transportation Research Procedia, 48, 327 – 344.
  • Prasad, D. S., Pradhan, R. P., Gaurav, K. and Dash, S. (2018). Factors Affecting Sustainable Supply Chain Management: The Indian Steel Sector, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 976 – 980.

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