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Rajkumar Sharma

Rajkumar Sharma

Rajkumar Sharma is a researcher and academician with specialization in Operations Management and Supply Chain Management. He has submitted his thesis on topic “Study and Design of an Optimum Downstream Grain Supply Chain” in the Department of Management at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus.

Before joining BITS, he worked as a proficient production engineer in the operations department of Secure Meters Ltd, Ahmedabad. He has around 4 years of industrial experience. His experience is related to operations management, manufacturing, quality management, and supply chain management.

His research interests are Supply chain optimization, Supply chain analytics, and agriculture supply chain management. He has published his work in reputed journals, including B and C in the ABDC list and Q1 and Q2 in the Scopus list. He has attended and presented his research work at various international conferences.

2021-2025 PhD

  1. Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus.

2019 – 2021 MTech

  1. Quality Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani.

2014 – 2018 BTech

  1. Mechanical Engineering from BK Birla Institute of Engineering and Technology Pilani.
  1. Jan 2018 – October 2021 Production Engineer at Secure Meters Limited, Ahmedabad

Research articles –

  1. Sharma, R. and Sharma, S.K. (2025), “Optimizing agricultural downstream supply chain: addressing information asymmetry and losses”, Business Process Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-02-2024-0097 (ABDC-B, Scopus – Q1)
  2. Sharma, S.K., Sharma, R. and Jindal, A. (2024), “An integrated structural model for supply chain vulnerability influencing factors in manufacturing enterprises”, Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. 19 No. 5, pp. 1510-1534. https://doi.org/10.1108/JM2-10-2023-0227 (ABDC-C, Scopus – Q2)

Book Chapters –

  1. Sharma, R. and Sharma, S.K. (2022), “Facility layout optimization”, Industry 4.0 and Climate Change, pp. 9–22, Doi: 10.1201/9781003293576-2.
  2. Sharma, R. and Sharma, S.K. (2023), “Long Term Business Planning to Mitigate Ill-effects of Natural Calamities”, Handbook of Evidence Based Management Practices in Business, pp. 552–563, Doi: 10.4324/9781003415725-67.
  1. Operations Management, Supply chain Management, Agriculture supply chain, Logistics, Supply chain Analytics

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