Dr Vinaya Shukla
Lecturer in Operations Management and Programme Leader for MBA (full time)
Department: Business and management
Contact
- Telephone: +44(0)20 8411 4247
- E-mail: v.shukla@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
- M.Tech,Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
- MBA, S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India
- M.Sc, Lancaster University Management School
- PhD, Cardiff Business School
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
- Supply chain systems
- Supply chain risk management
- Humanitarian Logistics
- Behavioural issues in operations management
Teaching Interests
Module Leader for MBA 4642 (Products and Processes) andMBA 4800 (Project)
Teaching Interests: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Project Management
Biography
Vinaya is the Programme Leader for the MBA (full time) programme and has teaching and research interests in different aspects of Supply Chain Management. Prior to Middlesex he did his research as a part of the EPSRC funded McCLOSM project (http://www.cuimrc.cf.ac.uk/McCLOSM). Before that he spent a number of years as a Management Consultant advising clients in a range of sectors on performance improvement opportunities.
Select Journal Publications
- Shukla, Vinaya,Naim, Mohamed and Yaseen, Ehab (2009) Bullwhip and Backlash in supply pipelines.,International Journal of Production Research, 47 (23). pp. 6477-6497.
- Sarmiento, Roberto and Shukla, Vinaya (2011) Zero-sum and frontier trade-offs: an investigation on compromises and compatibilities amongst manufacturing capabilities.,International Journal of Production Research, 49(7), pp. 2001-2017.
- Shukla, Vinaya., Naim, Mohamed and Thornhill, Nina(2012) Rogue seasonality detection in supply chains,International Journal of Production Economics (In press).
Refereed Conferences
- Shukla, V., Naim, M. M., "An operations management framework for disturbance detection in supply networks", 14th International Annual EurOMA Conference. Ankara, Turkey, June, 2007
- Shukla, V., Naim, M. M. and Yaseen, E. A. "Bullwhip and backlash in supply pipelines", 37thInternational Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, Oct, 2007.
- Shukla, V., Naim, M. M. "The impact of capacity constraints on supply chain dynamics", 39thInternational Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering,Troyes, France, July, 2009.
- Shukla, V., Naim, M. M., "Investigation of disturbances in a grocery supply chain",14th Logistics Research Network Annual Conference., Cardiff, Sep, 2009
Professional Memberships
Operational Research Society (UK), INFORMS (USA)



