IITKGP

Jitendra Kumar Jha

Associate Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

+91-3222-283748

jkjha@iem.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Vice-Chairperson, Career Development Centre

Research Areas

Dr. Jha is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He obtained his PhD from IIT Kanpur where he worked in the area of Supply Chain Management. He graduated in Production Engineering from BIT Sindri and completed his MTech in Industrial Management from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. His main areas of teaching and research include Operations Research, Statistical Decision Modeling, Facility Planning, Supply Chain Optimization and  Logistics Planning. He published/presented more than fifty papers in international journals and conferences, and his publications appeared in the leading journals like Journal of the Operational Research Society, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice. He has been associated with several projects from various sponsoring agencies. He organized short-term courses on Facility Planning, Service Science, Quantitative Decision modeling, and DATA Analytics with SAS.
  • Bidirectional option contract for prepositioning of relief supplies under demand uncertainty Patra T.D.P., Jha J.K. By Computers and Industrial Engineering 163 - (2022)
  • An integrated inventory problem with transportation in a divergent supply chain under service level constraint Jha J. K., Shanker K. By Journal of Manufacturing Systems 33 462-475 (2014)
  • Strategic location of ambulances under temporal variation in demand and travel time using variable neighbourhood search based approach Nadar R.A., Jha J.K., Thakkar J.J. By Computers and Industrial Engineering 162 - (2021)
  • A two-period newsvendor model for prepositioning with a post-disaster replenishment using Bayesian demand update Patra T.D.P., Jha J.K. By Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 78 1-12 (2021)
  • Benders decomposition approach with heuristic improvements for the robust foodgrain supply network design problem Tanksale A., Jha J.K. By Journal of the Operational Research Society 71 16-36 (2020)
  • Pricing and coordination strategies of a dual-channel supply chain considering green quality and sales effort Ranjan A., Jha J.K. By Journal of Cleaner Production 218 409-424 (2019)
  • Solving multi-region multi-facility inventory allocation and transportation problem: A case of Indian public distribution system Tanksale A., Jha J. K. By Computers & Industrial Engineering 110 175-190 (2017)
  • Optimal lot-sizing under strict carbon cap policy considering stochastic demand Ghosh A., Jha J. K., Sarmah S. P. By Applied Mathematical Modelling 44 688-704 (2017)
  • Two-echelon supply chain inventory model with controllable lead time and service level constraint Jha J. K., Shanker K. By Computers & Industrial Engineering 57 (3) 1096-1104 (2009)
  • Optimal production-inventory policy for closed-loop supply chain with remanufacturing under random demand and return Mawandiya B. K., Jha J. K., Thakkar J. J. By Operational Research 20 1623-1664 (2020)
  • Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Amit Ranjan

Area of Research: Supply Chain Management

Anand Ranjan

Area of Research: Supply Chain Management

Ashok Kumar Gaula

Area of Research: Supply chain and logistics

Bethalam Brahma Sai Nikhilesh

Area of Research: Supply Chain and Logistics

Mitrajit Chowdhury

Area of Research: Performance Evaluation

Mohammad Mufassir Khan

Area of Research:

Priya Ranjan Mallick

Area of Research: Risk Optimization in Supply Chain