Sunderesh Heragu

co-author of "Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management"

December 11, 2018

Sunderesh S. Heragu is a regents professor, the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Chair and the head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. Previously, he was the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics in the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Louisville, where he was also director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute. He was also a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, taught at State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and held visiting appointments at State University of New York, Buffalo; Technical University of Eindhoven and University of Twente, in the Netherlands; and IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Dr. Heragu has received the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. He is also a Fellow of IISE, has won the IISE Award for Technical Innovation in 2008, the 1998 IISE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing Award and IISE Transactions Award for Best Paper published in "Feature Applications" for a paper co-authored with his student.

“Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management” provides an overview of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain research, making them available to practitioners, while also serving as a point of reference for academicians.

Operations and logistics are cornerstones of modern supply chains that in turn are essential for global business and economics. The composition, character and importance of supply chains and networks are rapidly changing, due to technological innovations such as information and communication technologies, sensors and robotics, internet of things, and additive manufacturing, to name a few - often referred to as Industry 4.0.

Societal developments such as environmental consciousness, urbanization or the optimal use of scarce resources are also impacting how supply chain networks are configured and operated. As a result, future supply chains will not just be assessed in terms of cost-effectiveness and speed, but also the need to satisfy agility, resilience and sustainability requirements. To face these challenges, an understanding of the basic as well as more advanced concepts and recent innovations is essential in building competitive and sustainable supply chains and, as part of that, logistics and operations. These span multiple disciplines and geographies, making them interdisciplinary and international.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2019-honorees/sunderesh-heragu

Last Updated: 11 December 2018