N Vivek

Professor of Practice

Area of Expertise: Operations and supply chain management

Email: [email protected]

Dr.N. Vivek has a teaching experience of more than 27 years. He has received his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from anna University Chennai. He has specialized in Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Business Statistics, Supply Chain Management, Theory of Constraints, Throughput accounting, Quality Management and Operations Management. He has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals and has presented papers in India and abroad. His other interests include Training Within Industry, Karakuri Kaizen, Activity Based Learning, low-cost organic agriculture, sustainable development, micro infrastructure development, rural economies, value investing and community health.

Publications

• Sekkizhar, J., Vivek, N. (2023). Buffer Sizing, Resizing and Monitoring in TOC DBM Approach with Respect to Seasonal Products—A Simulation Study. In: Natarajan, E., Vinodh, S., Rajkumar, V. (eds) Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore.
• Sekkizhar, J., Vivek, N. (2023). Establishing Flow and Improving Flow Velocity in Manufacturing Systems—Pointers from Theory of Constraints. In: Natarajan, E., Vinodh, S., Rajkumar, V. (eds) Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore.
• P Hong, Balasudarsun NL, N Vivek, M Sathish, (2022), Sustainable Agricultural Business Model: Case Studies of Innovative Indian Farmers, Sustainability 14 (16), 10242
• Parvadavardini Soundarrajan, Nagarajan Vivek, (2016), ‘Green finance for sustainable green economic growth in India’, Agricultural Economics (Zeme?de?lská Ekonomika), Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 62(1), pp 35-44
• Parvadavardini Soundarrajan, Nagarajan Vivek, (2015), ‘A study on the agricultural value chain financing in India’, Agricultural Economics (Zeme?de?lská Ekonomika), Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 61(1), pp 31-38,
• Parvadavardini S, Vivek N, Devadasan S R, (2015), ‘Impact of quality management practices on quality performance and financial performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing companies’, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 27(5-6), pp 507-530
• Priya T S, Vivek N, (2016), ‘Restructuring the agricultural supply chain’, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 10(1), pp 135-148
• Vivek Nagarajan, Katrina Savitskie, Sampathkumar Ranganathan, Sandipan Sen, Aliosha Alexandrov, (2013) "The effect of environmental uncertainty, information quality, and collaborative logistics on supply chain flexibility of small manufacturing firms in India", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 25(5), pp.784 – 802
• N Vivek, Sandipan Sen, Katrina Savitskie, Sampath Kumar Ranganathan, Sudharani Ravindran, (2011), ‘Supplier partnerships, information quality, supply chain flexibility, supply chain integration and organisational performance: the Indian story’, International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 6(2), pp 181-199
• Vivek N, Sudharani D, (2009), ‘An Empirical Study On The Impact Of Supplier Performance On Organizational Performance: A Supply Chain Perspective’, South Asian Journal Of Management, 16 (3), pp 63-72.
• Vivek, N; Ravindran, Sudharani; Shalij, P. R; Devadasan, S. R.,(2009), Impact of information quality on the organisational performance in supply chain environment - an empirical study in India, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Vol 2(2), pp 111-124

Case Studies

• The Three Letter Potion for Problem Solving: Case from TVS Motor Co Ltd, Hosur
  Case Clearing house, UK
  Reference no. 620-0020-1,
  Subject category: Production and Operations Management
  Authors: R Deepa (PSG Institute of Management); N Vivek (PSG Institute of Management), Originally published in: 2020, Version: 4-May-2020, Revision date: 16-Jul-2020, Length: 19 pages, Data source: Field research
• The Three Letter Potion for Problem Solving: Case from TVS Motor Co Ltd, Hosur
  Case clearing house, UK
  Teaching note, Reference no. 620-0020-8
  Subject category: Production and Operations Management
  Authors: R Deepa (PSG Institute of Management); N Vivek (PSG Institute of Management), Originally published in: 2020, Version: 4-May-2020,Revision date: 16-Jul-2020
  Length: 15 pages, Data source: Field research

Conference Presentations

• Sekkizhar, J; Vivek, N, (2022), A Study of Rope size and number of splits on the Throughput of a manufacturing system while applying the Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope methodology on a Simulated Manufacturing setup, National Level Research Conclave 2022, PSG College of Technology, June 3-4
• Sekkizhar, J; Vivek, N (2022), Establishing flow and improving flow velocity in manufacturing systems- pointers from theory of constraints, 2nd International Conference on Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment, PSG Institute of Technology and Advanced Research in collaboration with UCSI University, Malaysia, March 11-12
• Sekkizhar, J; Vivek, N (2022), Buffer sizing, Resizing and monitoring in TOC-DBM approach with respect to Seasonal Products - A Simulation Study, 2nd International Conference on Materials, Design and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment, PSG Institute of Technology and Advanced Research
• L Balasudarsun, N,Vivek, S Karthikeyan,M, S Joshua, CH Paul, (2020), Sustainable Agricultural Business Model: Case Study of Innovative Indian Farmers, The Eighth Global Supply Chain Management Conference, COBI, The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, Dec 3-6 & 10-13
• J Sekkizhar, N Vivek, (2020), Profitability of Supply Chain in Open Competition Environment: A Simulation Study, The Eighth Global Supply Chain Management Conference, COBI, The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, Dec 3-6 & 10-13
• R Chitra, N Vivek, R Jagajeevan, L Balasudarsun, N, (2020), Impact of Demand Estimation on Profitability of Organic Farm Produce Supply Chain: A Case Study, The Eighth Global Supply Chain Management Conference, COBI, The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, Dec 3-6 & 10-13
• L Balasudarsun,N, N Vivek, J Diyanesh, R Chitra, R Jagajeevan, (2020), Impact of Big Data in the Healthcare Industry, The Eighth Global Supply Chain Management Conference, COBI, The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, Dec 3-6 & 10-13
• D Krishnaveni,V, R Swamynathan, N Vivek, (2020), Production Stage Sustainability in Agricultural Supply Chains – Predicting Farmers’ Sustainability Readiness using Data Analytics, The Eighth Global Supply Chain Management Conference, COBI, The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, Dec 3-6 & 10-13
• SathiyaPriya T, Vivek N & Sai Mounika, 2013. A Case Study of the Russian Dacha. In Sixth Global Supply Chain Management Conference: Building Bridges Between Theory and Practice, Detroit, USA.
• Sathiya Priya, T. & Vivek, N., 2012. Redesigning the Agricultural Supply Chain. In 5th International Supply Chain Management Symposium and Workshop, Tokyo, Japan.
• Nagarajan, Vivek, Katrina Savitske, Sampathkumar Ranganathan, Sandipan Sen, and Sudharani Raveendran (2011), “The Impact of Strategic Supplier Partnership and Information Quality on Supply Chain Flexibility and Organizational Performance,” Marketing Management Association Conference Proceedings, Chicago IL
• T. SathiyaPriya & Vivek N, 2012. Application of TWI (Training Within Industry) in Supply Chain Management. In 7th National conference on business research, PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore.
• SathiyaPriya, Parvardavardini & Vivek, 2013. Business Simulation as a Mechanism for Teaching Business Sustainability. In National Conference on Building Futuristic Organizations: Developing Sustainable Competitive Strategies, GRG School of Management Studies, Coimbatore
• Prabhakaran B, Vivek N, ‘SCM Practice at GVG Paper Industry’, 6th National Conference on Business Research, November 20-21, 2009, PSG Institute of Management

PhD Research Advisory Committee Member

• Supervised/co supervised six doctoral students

Visiting Faculty

• Hanoi University Business School, Hanoi, vietnam

Other

Conferences Organised

• Member - Organizing committee, GSCM2006, 2012, 2020 in association with The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
• Member - Organizing committee, ILSCM 2008, In association with Central Michigan University, USA

Industry related work

• TWI programs for the supervisory staff (Job instruction, Job relations and Job methods)
• Consulting for business problems
• Training sessions on TOC for executives
• Time Study for fixing standards
• Training the supervisors on time study