Faculty
Dr. Surya Prakash
Dr. Surya Prakash has over 12 years of experience in industry, academics, and research. He is a Ph.D. from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, in Supply Chain Management, and a Master’s in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Rajasthan. He has worked with IIHMR University, Jaipur, BML Munjal University Gurugram, and NorthCap University, Gurugram, and taught UG and PG students various operations and supply chain management courses. At BML Munjal University, he served as Assistant Dean (Academic Operations), at the School of Engineering and Technology, Member of the Board of Management, and as Nodal Officer for ARIIA, Govt of India Ranking. He mastered and led a project-based learning program called Joy of Engineering there. At IIHMR University, he delivered SCM and OM courses curated to the need of the healthcare sector. Throughout his academic journey, he received several awards and fellowships, namely, the MHRD Fellowship, Government of India, the Best Research Paper award in ICHA-18 at NUS Singapore, the All-Round Performer award at BMU, the largest number of publications in a year at IIHMR University, etc. He has a special interest in IPR and patents. He has two patents to his name and expert in patent and IP realization for businesses, especially startups.
Dr. Prakash has published various research papers in top-rated international journals of OM and OR areas like the Journal of Cleaner Production, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Sustainability, Measuring Business Excellence, Benchmarking: an International Journal, Grey Systems: Theory and Application, etc. His areas of research interest are operations management, supply chain management, sustainability, circular economy, industry 4.0, and new-age technologies for operations management. He has supervised four Ph.D. scholars. He is a reviewer for leading international outlets in OM and SCM domains.
Journal Articles
- Surya Prakash, "Ensuring the Success of Unorganized Retail Supply Chains of Current Times- A Developing Nation Perspective" published in International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences - ABDC B Category, (2023), https://www.ijmems.in/cms/storage/app/public/uploads/volumes/51-IJMEMS-23-0197-8-5-896-911-2023.pdf
- Surya Prakash, "Investigating Challenges to Adoption of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Logistics Management for Last Mile Delivery" published in International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management - ABDC C Category, (2023), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371450471_Investigating_Challenges_to_Adoption_of_Industry_40_Technologies_in_Logistics_Management_for_Last_Mile_delivery
- Surya Prakash, with Vijay Prakash Sharma, Ranbir Singh & Ankur Brar, "Decisive Drivers Contributing towards Modern Last Mile Delivery Operations: A Qualitative Analysis using ISM" published in International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences - ABDC B Category, (2023), https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vijay-Sharma-17/publication/374754109_Decisive_Drivers_Contributing_towards_Modern_Last_Mile_Delivery_Operations_A_Qualitative_Analysis_using_ISM/links/652de4360ebf091c48fa67bb/Decisive-Drivers-Contributing-towards-Modern-Last-Mile-Delivery-Operations-A-Qualitative-Analysis-using-ISM.pdf
- Surya Prakash, with Priyank Srivastava, Hammad Ansari,Melfi Alrasheedi,Rohit Sharma,Surya Prakash & Sumit Gupta, "Leveraging supply chain collaboration with digital technologies for supply chain performance: an empirical investigation of Indian meat industries" published in International Journal of Food Science and Technology - ABDC A Category, (2024), https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijfs.17052
- Surya Prakash, with Venkataramanaiah Saddikuti Surya Prakash Vijaydeep Siddharth Kanika Jain Sidhartha Satpathy, "A prescription for efficiency: optimizing the surgical item inventory management practices in a healthcare facility" published in Journal of Advances in Management Research - ABDC B Category, (2024), https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JAMR-11-2023-0342/full/html
- Surya Prakash, with Satyender Singh, Vijay Prakash, Nandita Choudhury, "Empirical Study of Knowledge Management and Student Empowerment for Employability" published in International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies - ABDC C Category, (2024), https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJKMS.2024.138066
- Surya Prakash, "A Prototype Model of Zero Trust Architecture Blockchain with EigenTrust-Based Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Protocol to Manage Decentralized Clinical Trials" published in Blockchain: Research and Applications (Elsevier) - Indian Publication indexed in Scopus and/or WoS Category, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2024.100232
- Vijay Prakash Sharma, Surya Prakash, Ranbir Singh, Ankur Brar (2023), "Decisive Drivers Contributing towards Modern Last Mile Delivery Operations: A Qualitative Analysis using ISM", International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 8(6), 1188-1205. DOI- https://doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2023.8.6.067. (Scimago Q3, Scopus, ESCI, JCR IF-1.6) Available at https://ijmems.in/article_detail.php?vid=8&issue_id=41&article_id=538Vijay
- Prakash Sharma, Surya Prakash, Ranbir Singh, Bharti Ramtiyal (2023), Diffusion of Industry 4.0 technologies in logistics: learning from past and future direction, International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, DOI: 10.1504/IJIE.2023.10060185. Q4 and Scopus, Order full copy at https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=ijie
- Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Vipul Jain, APS Rathore (2018), “Closed-loop supply chain network design and modeling under risks and demand uncertainty: An integrated robust optimization approach”, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 290, pp. 837–864. (‘A’ category in ABDC Ranking).
- Surya Prakash, Sharma, V.P., Singh, R., Vijayvargy, L. and Nilaish (2022), "Adopting green and sustainable practices in the hotel industry operations- an analysis of critical performance indicators for improved environmental quality", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-03-2022-0090. (Q1)
- Surya Prakash., Kumar, S., Soni, G., Jain, V., Dev, S. and Chandra, C. (2022), "Evaluating approaches using the Grey-TOPSIS for sustainable supply chain collaboration under risk and uncertainty", Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. (Q1, ABDC -‘B’)
- Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore (2015) "A grey based approach for assessment of risk associated with facility location in global supply chain", Grey Systems: Theory and Application, Vol. 5 Iss: 3, pp.419 – 436. (SCI, IF 2.1)
- Prakash, Surya., Agrawal, A., Singh, R., Singh, R.K. and Zindani, D. (2022), "A decade of grey systems: theory and application – bibliometric overview and future research directions", Grey Systems: Theory and Application, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/GS-03-2022-0030 (SCI, IF=2.1)
- Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore, Shubhender Singh (2017), "Risk analysis and mitigation for perishable food supply chain: a case of dairy industry", Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 24 Iss: 1, pp.2 – 23. (ABDC - ‘B’, ESCI).
- Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore, (2017) "Embedding risk in closed-loop supply chain network design: Case of a hospital furniture manufacturer", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. 12 Issue: 3, pp.551-574. (‘ABDC -‘C’, ESCI)
- Kale, S.R., Kota, S., Jasti, N.V.K., Soni, G. and Prakash, Surya. (2022), "An occupational health and safety management system framework for lean process industries: an interpretive structural modelling approach", International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Vol. 13 No. 6, pp. 1367-1394. (Q1, IF=5.8)
- Narula, S., Puppala, H., Kumar, A., Luthra, S., Dwivedy, M., Prakash, Surya. and Talwar, V. (2022), "Are Industry 4.0 technologies enablers of lean? Evidence from manufacturing industries", International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLSS-04-2021-0085 (Q1, IF=5.8)
- Sinha, Priyank, Sameer Kumar, and Surya Prakash (2020). "Measuring and mitigating the effects of cost disturbance propagation in multi-echelon apparel supply chains." European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 282, No. 1, pp-148-160. (ABDC- ‘A*’, IF=5.33).
- Soni, G., Jain, V., Chan, F.T.S., Niu, B. and Prakash, Surya. (2019), "Swarm intelligence approaches in supply chain management: potentials, challenges and future research directions", Supply Chain Management, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 107-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-02-2018-0070 (ABDC- ‘A’ IF= 11.2).
- Surya Prakash, Gunjan Soni, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore, (2017) "A critical analysis of supply chain risk management content: a structured literature review", Journal of Advances in Management Research, Vol. 14 Iss: 1, pp.69 – 90. (ESCI).
- Surya Prakash, Sameer Kumar, Maheshawar Dwivedy, (2018), “Modelling the barriers for mass adoption of EVs in India”, ICIEA-2018, 26-28 April 2018, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. (In-press- IEEE Xplore Digital Library) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8387144/
Memberships in Professional Associations
Book Chapter
- Surya Prakash, "Drivers of Industry 4.0 Operations for Logistics Management: An Analysis of Critical Performance Indicators for Last Mile Delivery" published in International Conference on Advancement in Manufacturing Engineering (2023)
Conference Proceedings
- Surya Prakash, with Manojkumar Pal, Murari Lal Mittal, Sagar Ghuge, "Agents based model for MODFJSP with efficient energy consumption" published in BAMS-ORSI 2024, IIT Mumbai (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2024.100232
- Surya Prakash, "Integrating 4D Security Framework in Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Enterprise Data Management" published in The Unified International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial AI, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (2024)
- Surya Prakash, "Analysing human-centric sustainability factors in Industry 5.0 for logistics management" published in POMS India International Conference 2024, IIM Ranchi (2024)
Popular Press
- Surya Prakash, "Managing Supply Chain With China+1, The Role of India" published in The Machinist (Times Group) (2024)
- Surya Prakash, with Jayatu Sen, "IndiGo and Ola Electric: The High Cost of Rapid Expansion and Operational Struggles" published in Outlook Business (2025), https://www.outlookbusiness.com/columns/how-indigo-and-ola-electrics-divergent-journeys-offer-lessons-in-expanding-a-business
