Samir K Srivastava

Samir K Srivastava is a Professor at IIML. He has over three decades of experience in research, teaching, consulting and industry. He worked in various positions in industry (AV Birla Group) in technical as well as management roles. He was an internal facilitator for TPM implementation at Indo Gulf Corporation leading it to win the TPM Excellence Award from JIPM Japan in the year 2000. He co-founded South Asia's first public procurement observatory (http://www.procurementobservatoryup.com). He has been a member of TPM Club of India, National Agricultural Innovation Project (Research on Production to Consumption Systems) and Sub-committee for Manufacturing Competitiveness (CII). He has published many research papers and co-authored two books. He serves on the Editorial Board of several International Journals and is an active referee for many journals of repute. His biographic profile appears in Marquis Who’s Who 2014 and Marquis Who’s Who 30th Pearl Anniversary Editions. He figures among the top 2% scientists in the world based on career-long impact in the database created by US-based Stanford University.

Prof. Samir is a leading researcher in the areas of green and sustainable supply chains, public procurement, and reverse logistics. His work has more than thirteen thousand citations in Google Scholar with a g-Index of 114, about three thousand two hundred citations in Scopus with an H-Index of 11 and more than two thousand citations in Publons. He serves on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. Based on career-long impact, he figures among the top 2% scientists in the world in the database created by US-based Stanford University.

Externally Funded Research Grants

• From Multi Donor Trust Fund for "Study to understand Government’s e-procurement intervention & its impact on procurement performance using data analytics".
• From Emerald/IAM for "Promoting Competition in Public Procurement: Finding right configurations for India".
• From Confederation of Indian Industry for "Developing Case Studies on themes related to Good Procurement Practices".
• From DST-India and EPSRC for “Engineering Driven Sustainable Supply Chains”.
• From UK-India Education and Research Initiative for “Understanding Indian and UK food industries”.

Teaching

• Operations Management
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Operations Strategy
• System Dynamics Modelling
• Reverse Logistics
• Manufacturing Excellence
• Green and Sustainable Supply Chains

Education

• B. Tech. from IT-BHU (now IIT BHU)
• Fellow of IIM Lucknow
• Completed with distinction TPM Implementation Course conducted by Japan Management Centre Incorporated, Tokyo

Consulting

• Impact Assessment study for business benefits through GeM
• Estimation of the volume of Public Procurement in India (Client: The World Bank)
• A study to evaluate e-procurement intervention at GeM, GAIL, States of Odisha and Assam & its impact on procurement performance using data analytics (Client: The World Bank).
• Operational efficiency of freight transportation by road in India (Joint Study with the Transportation Corporation of India).
• Study to understand Government of India's e-procurement intervention & its impact on procurement performance using data analytics (Client: The World Bank).
• Process Re-engineering of the General Administration processes of Kolkata Port Trust (Client: Kolkata Port Trust).
• Whether to follow tariff based reverse auction or closed e-bidding route for awarding projects in wind and solar sectors (Client: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India).
• Logistics Operations of Tata Motors, Prolife Business (Client: Tata Motors Limited).
• Procurement Observatory in the state of Uttar Pradesh (Client: The World Bank).
• Benchmarking and Negotiation Strategies for a Robust Acquisition System (Client: College of Materials Management, Indian Army).
• Review of Existing Procedure of Procurement of Dry, FOL and Fresh Rations (Client: ASC Centre & College, Indian Army).
• Setting up a Procurement Observatory in the state of Uttar Pradesh (Client: The World Bank).

Awards & Honours

• Among the top 2% scientists in the world based on career-long impact in the database created by Elsevier BV in 2021.
• Among the top 2% scientists in the world based on career-long impact in the database created by US-based Stanford University in 2020.
• Among Highly Cited Researchers 2016 by Thomson Reuters.
• Empanelled for competition assessment by the Competition Commission of India.
• Winner of the Prof. Manubhai M. Shah Memorial Award for Excellence in Commerce and Business Management (MMSMA) 2015.
• Highly commended runner-up of the Emerald/IAM Indian Management Research Fund Award 2015.
• Ranked 5th in the List of the top Indian academics in terms of logistics/SCM research output .
• Name appears in the List of the Top 5% Productive Researchers in Management Schools of India (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2016.02.004).
• Paper in the List of the 30 most-frequently cited publications in Omega.
• Springer Best Paper Award at the 23td Society of Operations Management International Conference, IIT Kanpur, December 2019.
• Best Paper Award at the 16th Society of Operations Management International Conference, IIT Delhi, December 2012.
• McGraw Hill Publishing Best Paper Award at the 3rd Global Conference on Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2004.
• Best Student Paper Award at the 7th Annual Society of Operations Management International Conference, IIM Indore, December 2003.
• Tuition Fee Waiver at Institute of Technology, BHU.
• Special Increment under "high potential" category at Indo Gulf Corporation Limited.