Browsing by Author "Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar"

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Analyzing the sourcing alternatives in an Indian manufacturing company
(Emerald, 2013-05) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the sourcing alternatives (i.e. supplier development (SD), supplier switching (SS) and in‐house production (IP)) in an Indian manufacturing supply chain environment
Development of supply chain risk mitigation strategy: a case study
(Inder Science, 2014) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar
The supply chain managers are making efforts to identify, assess, manage and mitigate the supply chain risks successfully to survive in the long run and to attain competitive advantages. The failure to manage these risks effectively can have a significant negative impact on supply chain performance. Therefore, the supply chain risks should be identified, quantified and analysed and it will form the basis for developing the supply chain mitigation strategies. Therefore, a complete and structured methodology is proposed for analysing supply chain risks and developing the supply chain risk mitigation strategies in a manufacturing supply chain environment. The application of proposed methodology has been demonstrated with a manufacturing case environment. It will be quite useful in the environment where quantitative information related to supply chain risks is not available.
Enhancing supplier capability through Six Sigma enablers
(Emerald, 2021-12) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar; Reosekar, Ravi Shrikrishna
The purpose of this paper is to identify, analyze and orient the enablers of Six Sigma to enhance supplier capability for an Indian manufacturing supply chain (SC).
Evaluating the implementation performance of a supplier development program
(Emerald, 2016) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar
The purpose of this paper is to quantify, evaluate and compare the implementation performance of a supplier development (SD) program using graph theoretic approach (GTA).
Improving supply chain performance by Supplier Development program through enhanced visibility
(Elsevier, 2018) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar
Established collaborative relationship with supplier in form of Supplier Development (SD) has gained ample popularity among manufacturing organizations due to significant benefits in product development time, capacity utilization, product quality and manufacturing cost. Sometime, slender supply chain is a result of extensive SD program at multiple stages of a value chain. The leaner the supply chain lesser the time to respond the market change and other uncertainty. The increasing uncertainty because of market dynamics creates the new panorama of visibility issue where the existence of proper visibility deliver a seamless operation in supply chain performance, but its absence create havoc in entire value chain. In presence of SD where the supply chain is leaner, the visibility is a significant governing issue which can produce all the disadvantages of SD, if not dealt properly. In this paper, an attempt is made to address the criteria and their orientations those govern the supply chain performance through visibility under the presence of a well-defined SD. An Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method is used to get a structural framework in a case environment.
Six Sigma Enablers for Incoming Material Quality Improvement and Their Interaction in Supplier Domain for Indian Manufacturing Scenario
(Elsevier, 2021) Routroy, Srikanta; Pradhan, Sudeep Kumar; Reosekar, Ravi Shrikrishna
Material quality is the predominant factor in governing competition in the existing supply chain. Hence, the right quality product at a competitive price has ever existed as it is now. Though the end-users are exploiting maximum benefit from this scenario, the complete value chain is moving towards cost optimization without scarifying the product quality. Every value chain is trying to improve or at-least maintaining the status-quo by creating a strategic supplier relationship program where the close relationship with suppliers helps the organization to avoid the uncertainties related to response time, order stability and incoming material quality, which incidentally responsible for the quick product to market. The incoming materials quality from the supplier is largely governed by process capability at the supplier end with respect to the desired quality standard from the manufacturing organization. In this context, Six Sigma is a widely accepted practice used in the industry in recent days for process capability improvement. Many researchers have studied Six Sigma in various contexts as a process improvement benchmark tool. In this paper, seven Six Sigma enablers are identified and one of the major enabler related to supplier domain; i.e., Supplier management is discussed in detail. The enablers (Proximity, Supplier Performance, Leadership, External Environment, and Supplier Management) those are directly contributing towards supply management are identified, and their interaction is studied through a hypothesized model. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is performed to understand relationship strength among these enablers. The enablers like leadership and supplier performance, exhibit relationship strength at a moderate level with supplier management. The relationship strength for all other enablers is at the minor level yet significant. Mediation does not affect the relationship significantly.