Shams Rahman
 Professor
Business IT and Logistics
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Dr Shams Rahman is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University. He is also the Deputy Head of School, Research and Innovation.Professor Rahman, a former British Commonwealth scholar, has worked with several universities in Australia, United Kingdom, and Thailand. In Australia he worked for the University of Western Australia, The University of Sydney, prior to joining RMIT University. He also held visiting fellowship at the Virginia Tech, US and University of Exeter, UK and currently, an International research scholar to Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, China. Professor Rahman is an expert in the in the field of supply chain logistics and he is frequently called upon to make presentations for various professional bodies and senior executives on issues such as supply chain sustainability, talent management in logistics, lean six-sigma and quality management, reverse logistics, and theory of constraints."
Research Interest
Reverse logistics
Publications
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 An investigation into critical service determinants of customer to business (C2B) type product returns in retail firms
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 Integrated optimization model and methodology for plastics recycling: Indian empirical evidence
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 Green public procurement implementation challenges in Australian public healthcare sectorÂ