K. Ganesh

K. Ganesh is working as Knowledge Specialist in Supply Chain Management - Center of Competence, McKinsey Knowledge Center, McKinsey & Company, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. He has graduated in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Annamalai University, TamilNadu, India with the university first rank. He pursued his Masters’ degree in Industrial Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, TamilNadu, India and secured college first. He then moved to Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, TamilNadu, India where he obtained his doctoral degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He was a half-time teaching and research assistant at IIT Madras awarded by MHRD research fellowship for 4 years. He then joined the supply chain management department of Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, Coimbatore as Research Analyst and worked for 2 years. He served as project leader for the five major consulting assignments namely business transformation, balanced score card, business optimization by supply chain synchronization, strategic cost reduction and knowledge management. He then joined as Assistant Consultant at Integrated Supply Chain, Manufacturing Industry Solutions Unit, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai and worked mainly in the areas of supply chain network design and optimization for 2 years. Later he joined as Senior Consultant in Global Business Services-Global Delivery of IBM India Private Limited, Mumbai, India and worked in Supply Chain Transformation projects for various industries for the span of 2 years. He worked as visiting professor for DJ Academy for Managerial Excellence, Coimbatore, India (1st Jan 2006 to 30th July 2007), Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College, Pollachi, Coimbatore, India (1st July 2006 to 30th December 2006), Sardar Vallabhai Patel Institute of Textile Management, Coimbatore, India (2nd Jan 2007 to 30th June 2007), Amrita Deemed University, Coimbatore – India (Adjunct Faculty of Research from 2006) and Swayam Siddhi College of Management and Research, Mumbai – India (12th July 2008 to Till Date). He is having 6 years consulting experience in top consulting companies and cumulative of 14 years of research, teaching and consulting experience in the supply chain domain for manufacturing, process and chemical industry. He has published 66 papers in leading international research journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research and Expert Systems with Applications and 4 papers in leading national journals. He has presented and published 51 papers in the reputed international conferences and 8 research articles in the national conferences. He has written a chapter for six books. He is Editor-in-Chief for 3 international journals (IJLSCM, IJDMSCL, IJOSHRM and AJMS), Editor for IJENM and associate editor for IJLEG, AJCST and IJISSCM. He is in the editorial board for various international journals. He is referee for 12 reputed international journals. He has been honored with 3 awards for his bachelor degree and one award for his master’s degree for academic excellence. He has obtained 4 awards from Tata Consultancy Services Limited and received 5 appreciation awards from IBM India Private Limited. Dr. K. Ganesh is expertise in areas such as Supply Chain (SC) Transformation, Strategic SC Network Design and Optimization, Production Planning Optimization, Inventory optimization, Demand Planning and Forecasting, Product Flow Optimization, Production Scheduling and Transportation Optimization. Among his other interests are music, counseling, website designing, interior decoration and photography. He is himself a lyricist and has written several poems in both English and Tamil.

Publications

International and Interdisciplinary Studies in Green Computing
K. Ganesh, S. P. Anbuudayasankar. © 2013. 238 pages.
With the growing awareness and popularity of environmental preservation, research on green computing has gained recognition around the world. Information technology must adopt...
Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Balanced Allocation Problem of Third Party Logistics Providers
R. Rajesh, S. Pugazhendhi, K. Ganesh. © 2013. 20 pages.
Third party logistics (3PL) service providers play a growing responsibility in the management of supply chain. The global and competitive business environment of 3PLs has...
Genetic Algorithm for Inventory Levels and Routing Structure Optimization in Two Stage Supply Chain
P. Sivakumar, K. Ganesh, M. Punnniyamoorthy, S.C. Lenny Koh. © 2013. 17 pages.
Several analytical models have been developed to solve the integrated production distribution problems in Supply Chain Management (SCM). In certain multi-stage service supply...
Decision Support System for Real Time Vehicle Routing in Indian Dairy Industry: A Case Study
R. A. Malairajan, K. Ganesh, M. Punnniyamoorthy, S. P. Anbuudayasankar. © 2013. 25 pages.
In today’s highly competitive and demanding environment, the pressure on both public and private organizations is to achieve a better way to deliver values to end customers....
An Approach for Setting Inventory Norms for a Two-Echelon Supply Chain
N. Ramkumar, P. Subramanian, T. T. Narendran, K. Ganesh. © 2013. 18 pages.
Managing inventories is crucial to the objective of minimizing supply chain costs. This paper presents an approach for setting inventory norms in context of a real-life case of...
Meta-heuristic Approach to Solve Mixed Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls in Enterprise Information System of Service Industry
S. P. Anbuudayasankar, K. Ganesh, Tzong-Ru Lee. © 2011. 16 pages.
This chapter presents the development of simulated annealing (SA) for a health care application which is modeled as Single Depot Vehicle routing problem called Mixed Vehicle...
Genetic Algorithm to Solve Multi-Period, Multi-Product, Bi-Echelon Supply Chain Network Design Problem
R. Dhanalakshmi, P. Parthiban, K. Ganesh, T. Arunkumar. © 2011. 15 pages.
In many multi-stage manufacturing supply chains, transportation related costs are a significant portion of final product costs. It is often crucial for successful decision making...
Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Balanced Allocation Problem of Third Party Logistics Providers
R. Rajesh, S. Pugazhendhi, K. Ganesh. © 2011. 21 pages.
Third party logistics (3PL) service providers play a growing responsibility in the management of supply chain. The global and competitive business environment of 3PLs has...
Meta-heuristic Approach to Solve Mixed Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls in Enterprise Information System of Service Industry
S. P. Anbuudayasankar, K. Ganesh, Tzong-Ru Lee. © 2010. 16 pages.
This chapter presents the development of simulated annealing (SA) for a health care application which is modeled as Single Depot Vehicle routing problem called Mixed Vehicle...
Genetic Algorithm to Solve Multi-Period, Multi-Product, Bi-Echelon Supply Chain Network Design Problem
R. Dhanalakshmi, P. Parthiban, K. Ganesh, T. Arunkumar. © 2010. 17 pages.
In many multi-stage manufacturing supply chains, transportation related costs are a significant portion of final product costs. It is often crucial for successful decision making...
Genetic Algorithm to Solve Multi-Period, Multi-Product, Bi-Echelon Supply Chain Network Design Problem
R. Dhanalakshmi, P. Parthiban, K. Ganesh, T. Arunkumar. © 2010. 15 pages.
In many multi-stage manufacturing supply chains, transportation related costs are a significant portion of final product costs. It is often crucial for successful decision making...
Artificial Intelligence Heuristic for Combinatorial Routing Problem
R. Dhanalakshmi, T. Arunkumar, P. Parthiban, K. Ganesh. © 2009. 20 pages.
The banking industry has initiated an assortment of new customer services and products using Information Technology (IT) systems. The banking industry has gone through many...
Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Heuristics and Clustering Algorithm for Combinatorial Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
K Ganesh, R. Dhanlakshmi, A. Tangavelu, P Parthiban. © 2009. 36 pages.
Problems of combinatorial optimization are characterized by their well-structured problem definition as well as by their huge number of action alternatives in practical...
Genetic Algorithm to Solve Multi-Period, Multi-Product, Bi-Echelon Supply Chain Network Design Problem
R. Dhanalakshmi, P. Parthiban, K. Ganesh, T. Arunkumar. © 2009. 19 pages.
In many multi-stage manufacturing supply chains, transportation related costs are a significant portion of final product costs. It is often crucial for successful decision making...
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM)
John Wang. Est. 2008.
The International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM) examines current, state-of-the-art research in the areas of SCM and the interactions...