Sridhar R. Tayur
Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing

B.Tech, IIT, Madras, 1986;
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990

(On Leave AY 2002-2003)

E-mail: stayur@grobner.gsia.cmu.edu

Research Page: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu:80/andrew/stayur/

Teaching and Research Interests:

Internet-enabled supply chains, supply chain management, managing product variety, plant management, JIT, logistics.

Major Publications/Papers:

"Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains," with R. Kapuscinski and S. Gavirneni, Management Science;

"Variability Reduction Through Operations Reversal," with R. Kapuscinski, Management Science;

"Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management," with R. Ganeshan and M. Magazine, Kluwer Academic Press;

"Managing Broader Product Lines Through Delayed Differentiation Using Vanilla Boxes," with J. Swaminathan, Management Science;

"Scheduling and Reliable Lead Time Quotation for Orders with Availability Intervals and Lead Time Sensitive Resources," with P. Keskinocak and R. Ravi, Management Science;

"A New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming," with O. Bertsimas and G. Perakis, Management Science;

"A Capacitated Production-Inventory Model with Periodic Demand," with R. Kapuscinski, Operations Research;

"Managing Stochastic Multi-Product Systems: Models, Measures and Analysis," with R. Anupindi, Operations Research;

"Sensitivity Analysis for Base Stock Levels in Multi-Echelon Production-Inventory System," with P. Glasserman, Management Science;

"A Randomized Algorithm for Optimizing over Certain Convex Sets," with R. Kannan and J. Mount, Mathematics of Operations Research;

"An Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Scheduling in Presence of Setups and Correlated Demands," with R. Thomas and N. R. Natraj, Mathematical Programming;

"Structural Properties and a Heuristic for a Kanban Controlled Serial Manufacturing System," Management Science.

Awards/Honors:

• President of MSOM/INFORMS, 2001-2002
• George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom, 1999
• Department of Industrial Management Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993
• Enterprize Business Case Competition, Top Prize for “SmartOps,” 1999
• Informs Case Competition, First Place, for “Time-Shared Jet Aircraft,” 2000

Editorial Boards:

• Associate Editor, Management Science, 1997-
• Senior Editor, MSOM Journal, 1996-
• Associate Editor, Operations Research, 1997-
• Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization and Engineering

Consulting:

• INTEL
• McKinsey and Co.
• Caterpillar Inc.
• General Electric
• Ciscorp
• Bush Industries