Nachiappan Subramanian

Nachiappan (Nachi) Subramanian is a Reader in Operations and Logistics Management at University of Sussex. Nachi is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK and Charted member of Institute of Logistics and Transport. Previously, Nachi worked at University of Nottingham Ningbo, China for five years and at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India for twelve years. Nachi has 17 years of academic experience and 2 years of industrial experience. He has post-doctoral research experience at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. He has received several research fellowship awards including BOYSCAST fellowship, Career award and Young Scientist fellowship award from Indian government agencies as well as Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship Award. His research works centres on novel research topics in logistics and supply chain management such as sustainability, risk and innovation and these topics are within our University priority research areas. Nachi is the principal investigator for two major research projects under the sustainable business model development theme of Innovation team project at UNNC. Nachi has published over 65 refereed research papers in leading operations and supply chain management journals. He also serves as a reviewer to many leading journals and has organised internationals conferences.

Publications

An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
Emily Anne Carey, Nachiappan Subramanian. © 2021. 19 pages.
This chapter aims to explore the feasibility of using blockchain in the beef supply chain to reduce waste. A mono-method, qualitative, inductive, single case study approach was...
Exploring the Blockchain Technology Application in the Chinese New Retail Business Model
Exploring the Blockchain Technology Application in the Chinese New Retail Business Model
Yuhong Li, Nachiappan Subramanian. © 2021. 13 pages.
While the new retail is revolutionizing retailing in China, the supply chain of the new retail has a few problems or potential risks which will decrease the customer satisfaction...
An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
Emily Anne Carey, Nachiappan Subramanian. © 2021. 19 pages.
This chapter aims to explore the feasibility of using blockchain in the beef supply chain to reduce waste. A mono-method, qualitative, inductive, single case study approach was...
Industry 4.0 and Hyper-Customized Smart Manufacturing Supply Chains
Industry 4.0 and Hyper-Customized Smart Manufacturing Supply Chains
S.G. Ponnambalam, Nachiappan Subramanian, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Wan Azhar Wan Yusoff. © 2019. 347 pages.
Next-generation supply chains revolve around smart manufacturing processes and personalized customization of products and services. For businesses to stay relevant in the market...
An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
An Exploratory Study on Blockchain Application in a Food Processing Supply Chain to Reduce Waste
Emily Anne Carey, Nachiappan Subramanian. © 2019. 25 pages.
This chapter aims to explore the feasibility of using blockchain in the beef supply chain to reduce waste. A mono-method, qualitative, inductive, single case study approach was...
Exploring the Blockchain Technology Application in the Chinese New Retail Business Model
Exploring the Blockchain Technology Application in the Chinese New Retail Business Model
Yuhong Li, Nachiappan Subramanian. © 2019. 17 pages.
While the new retail is revolutionizing retailing in China, the supply chain of the new retail has a few problems or potential risks which will decrease the customer satisfaction...
Supply Chain Management in the Big Data Era
Supply Chain Management in the Big Data Era
Hing Kai Chan, Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad Dan-Asabe Abdulrahman. © 2017. 299 pages.
Technological advancements in recent years have led to significant developments within a variety of business applications. In particular, data-driven research provides ample...
Big Data Analytics: Academic Perspectives
Big Data Analytics: Academic Perspectives
Muhammad D. Abdulrahman, Nachiappan Subramanian, Hing Kai Chan, Kun Ning. © 2017. 12 pages.
This chapter discusses the scholarly views on big data analytics with respect to the challenges in terms of visualization and data driven research in smart cities and ports. The...
Big Data Analytics: Service and Manufacturing Industries Perspectives
Big Data Analytics: Service and Manufacturing Industries Perspectives
Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman, Hing Kai Chan, Kun Ning. © 2017. 11 pages.
In this chapter, we will introduce practical issues and implementation challenges from the industry perspective. In particular, we explain three aspects based on the panel...