Sivakumar S

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sivakumar.s@iimtrichy.ac.in

Operations Management & Decision Sciences

Fellow (IIM Bangalore), PG Diploma in Software Enterprise Mgmt (IIM Bangalore), B.E. in Mechanical Engg (NIT Trichy)

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Sivakumar S is an Associate Professor in OM & DS Area at IIM Tiruchirappalli. He brings a blend of outstanding academic and professional track record, high-quality research publications, with rich consulting and industry experience. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from NIT Trichy and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Bangalore. He is a doctoral fellow of IIM Bangalore in the area of Production and Operations Management. He was the winner of SAP Labs merit scholarship during his doctoral program at IIM, Bangalore. He was also the winner of the Director’s merit list (DML) award for his academic performance at both the doctoral level and post-graduation level at IIM, Bangalore.

He has an industry work experience of 14 years with Wipro Technologies including 7 years of experience in Europe and USA. During his professional career he played diverse roles in solution design & consulting, delivery operations, project mgmt, account mgmt, mining sales, domain competency development, and corporate training.  He has been recipient of the Best People Manager award, Best Project award, and Best Process Change award from the Chairman of Wipro.

He specializes in consulting on business process re-engineering, quality & process improvement, supply chain and cost optimization, service system design & management, and Industry 4.0 implementations. His consulting portfolio includes a large UK-based technology firm, a global information services company, a leading UK-based global financial services company, a leading US-based global airlines company, and several leading media & DTH companies. He has also consulted for an India-based polypropylene bag manufacturer and a leading windmill manufacturing company.

 
Research Interests

  1.     Service Operations – Coproduction systems, Services Outsourcing, and Servitization of manufacturing.
  2.     Industry 4.0 – Strategy, design, implementation, and performance management
  3.     Supply Chain contracts  and Strategic Sourcing issues 

Journal Articles

GJFSM | Year – 2024
Sivakumar, S., & Mahadevan, B. (2024). Design of Coproductive Systems: Is Service Modularity Preferable over Resource Flexibility? Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-024-00374-3

EJOR | Year – 2021
S. Sivakumar, B. Mahadevan (2021), Configuring and pricing smart coproductive services, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 294, Issue 2, Pages 779-789, ISSN 0377-2217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.01.041

HBSP | Year – 2020
S. Sivakumar & B. Mahadevan (2020), Exceed: Improving productivity and reliability in delivery of software solutions (case study), Harvard Business School Publishing.

INTERFACES | Year – 2013
B. Mahadevan, S. Sivakumar, D. Dineshkumar, K. Ganeshram (2013), Redesigning Midday Meal Logistics for the Akshaya Patra Foundation: OR at Work in Feeding Hungry School Children, INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics, Vol. 43(6), pp. 530–546.

  • Business Statistics (QM1) – Core course
  • Operations Management – Core course
  • Strategic Management of Services – covers service operations and marketing
  • Operations Strategy
  • Managing Industry 4.0 Transformation
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Managing e-business operations
  • Managing Industry 4.0 Transformation
  • Achieving Service Excellence
  • Supply Chain Management & Strategic Sourcing
  • Sales and Operations Planning
  • Serving as the Area Chairperson of the OM&DS Area
  • Served as the Chairperson of the PGPM Program in 2020 & 2021
  • Served as the Program Director for the first two e-learning long-duration executive education programs launched by the institute

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