Amar Sapra

Professor Sapra completed his PhD in Supply Chain Management at Cornell University and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. Prior to joining IIMB, he taught at the University of Florida and Cornell University in the US. His research interests include Supply Chain Management, Pricing and Inventory Management. His research has appeared in top-tier journals such as Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He has also co-authored a book entitled, Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More (published by Springer in 2010). He currently holds a “Young Faculty Research Chair” at IIMB.

Recent Publications:

Sapra, A. Dual Sourcing in a Serial System. Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming. Onal, M., E. Romeijn, A. Sapra, and W. Heuvel. The Economic Lot-Sizing Problem with Perishable Items and Consumption Order Preference. European Journal of Operational Research, 244(3), 2015. Sapra, A. and P. Jackson. A Continuous Time Analog to the Martingale Model of Forecast Evolution. IIE Transactions, 46(1), 2014. Chen, L.-M. and A. Sapra. Joint Inventory and Pricing Decisions for Perishable Products with Two-period Lifetime. Naval Research Logistics, 60(5), 2013. Sapra, A., and P. Jackson. On the Equilibrium Behavior of a Supply Chain Market for Capacity. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 15(1), 2013. Muckstadt, J. and A. Sapra. Principles of Inventory Management: When You are Down to Four, Order More. Reference and textbook for Masters and PhD Students, Springer, 2010. Sapra, A., V. A. Truong, and R. Q. Zhang. How Much Demand Should be Fulfilled? Operations Research, 58(3), 2010.