Rabindranath Bhattacharya retired from Sundaram Fasteners Ltd, Chennai in 2006 (a TVS group of companies) as General Manager (Materials) and subsequently worked as an advisor in materials management and strategic planning at Ucal Fuel Systems Ltd, Chennai, from which he retired in 2009.

He obtained his bachelor's degree from Jadavpur University, master's degree from Allahabad University and PhD in Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras after retirement from service. He has been teaching MBA students for more than a decade at leading business schools of India as an adjunct faculty.

Anindita Maitra Bhattacharyya is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Amity University Kolkata. She obtained her PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Applied Mathematics and carried out her post-doctoral work as a scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

List of Figures ix List of Tables xxi List of Abbreviations xxiv Acknowledgements xxvi Foreword by Gautam Sinha xxviii Foreword by Kunal Kanti Ghosh xxix Authors xxx Introduction xxxii 1 Understanding the Supply Chain and Operations Management 1 2 Inventory Analytics 51 3 Sourcing Analytics 121 4 Production Planning Analytics 185 5 Production Control Analytics 249 6 Data Mining and Aggregation Analytics 323 7 Transportation and Network Planning Analytics 387 8 Location and Network Design Analytics 440 9 Simulation Analytics 521 10 Remanufacturing Analytics: The Way Forward 570 Epilogue 605 Appendix: Supply Chain Success Stories 611 Index 635