Apurva Jain - Faculty Profile- Michael G. Foster School of Business

"Web retailing provides new opportunities to significantly reduce supply-chain variability and cost. E-tailers must design operating policies that exploit these opportunities as well as buffer against the uncertainties of a rapid-growth industry."

Apurva Jain

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Associate Professor of Operations Management

PhD, Purdue University, 1999
MS, National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering, Bombay, India, 1989
BS, University of Roorkee, India, 1988

Phone:	206-685-4970	Mailing Address:
Fax:	206-543-3968	Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office: Email:	337 Mackenzie Hall apurva@u.washington.edu	Info Systems and Ops Management Department Box 353200 Seattle, WA 98195-3200

Faculty Personal Web Page: http://faculty.washington.edu/apurva

Specialties

Supply chain management, logistics, inventory.

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 1999
Industrial engineer at Brooke Bond India, Ltd. (1991-95)

Selected Publications

“Value of capacity pooling for heterogeneous customers,” European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.

“Priority and Dynamic Scheduling in a Make-to-Stock Queue with Hyperexponential Demand,” Naval Research Logistics, forthcoming.

“A supply chain model with retail and direct channels,” with A. Dumrongsiri, M. Fan, and K. Moinzadeh, European Journal of Operational Research, special issue on economics of operations and information management, forthcoming.

“A supply chain model with reverse information exchange,” with K. Moinzadeh, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 361-378.

“Modeling the impact of merging capacity in a production-inventory system,” with A. Iyer, Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 8, August 2004, pp. 1082-1094.

“The logistics impact of a mixture of order-streams in a manufacturer-retailer system,” with A. Iyer, Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 7, July 2003, pp. 890-906. Extended abstract published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 114-116.

Working Papers

Current Research

Analytical modeling of product-flow and information linkages between manufacturers and retailers and their redesign to reduce variability in supply chains.

Honors and Awards

MBA Core Professor of the Quarter for Winter 2009 (2009)
Honorable mention in the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society's Student Paper Competition.

Selected Consulting Experience

Motorola and Molex, India, process and resource planning.