Srinivas Talluri

Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management

Sri Talluri earned the B. S. degree in mechanical engineering in India in 1989, the M. S. degree in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering and the Ph. D. degree in production and operations management from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. His research interests are in the areas of purchasing/supply chain management, technology evaluation and justification, performance evaluation and business process improvement. Research methodologies mainly include optimization methods with emphasis on linear, mixed-integer, multi-objective programming and data envelopment analysis. He has about 50 journal publications in a variety of academic journals including the IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and has presented papers in various national and international conferences. His research is funded by companies and organizations such as Lear Corporation, McNeil Healthcare, and Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies. His consulting experience includes a variety of companies in the area of supply chain optimization, which include SAP, Johnson & Johnson, Dash Optimization, and Gateway.

Dr. Talluri was the recipient of John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award for outstanding scholarly contributions in 2004. He serves as a Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Associate Editor for the Decision Sciences Journal and the International Journal of Production Research, editorial review board member for Production and Operations Management and other journals, and reviewer for many journals. He served as the Track Chair for Supply Chain Management at the 14th and 16th Annual Production and Operations Management Conferences, and the Track Chair for Sourcing Management for the 18th Annual POMS Conference. In addition, Sri also served as an Associate Executive Director for POMS from 2006-2009. He is a member of honor societies such as Alpha Pi Mu and Phi Kappa Phi and professional organizations which include the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).

Professor Talluri has about twelve years of teaching experience and has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of supply chain management, operations management, operations research/management science, and statistics.

Specialties

Purchasing and supply chain management with emphasis on supplier evaluation and rationalization, buyer-seller negotiation models, and optimal supply network design; technology evaluation and justification with emphasis on advanced manufacturing and information technologies; and multi-factor models for performance evaluation and process improvement in manufacturing and service industries