Rajesh Piplani
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Prof Piplani is an Associate Professor with the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering since December 1998. He received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1995, and M. Eng. from Arizona State University in 1990. Dr Piplani is the director of M.Sc. (Supply Chain & Logistics). His research interests are in the area of inventory planning and network design of supply chains, and modeling of healthcare and production systems. He has worked on several funded research projects and was the program manager, Integrated Manufacturing and Service Systems (IMSS) for A*Star, managing the SGD 8 Million research program for four years.
Research Interest
Inventory planning and network design of supply chains, and modeling of healthcare and production systems.
Publications
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Ghosh, S*, Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S., 2013, "Optimal inventory rationing policy under service differentiation for multiple customer classes with deterministic demand,†International Journal of Services and Operations Management (to appear).
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Agustina, D.*, Lee, C.K.M., Piplani, R., 2014. Scheduling and routing at a cross-docking center for a food supply chain. (To appear in International Journal of Production Economics, Special issue on Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations and Technology).
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Ghosh, S, Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S, 2014. A new two-bin policy for inventory systems with differentiated demand classes. (To appear in Production and Operations Management).
