Dr. RAJESH PIPLANI

SELECTED JOURNAL PAPERS
 

  • H. Widiarta, S. Viswanathan and R. Piplani, 2009, “Forecasting Aggregate Demand: An Analytical Evaluation of Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Forecasting in a Production Planning Framework,” International Journal of Production Economics, 118(1), 87-94.
  • Widiarta, H., Viswanathan, S., Piplani, R. 2008, “Evaluation of Hierarchical Forecasting for Substitutable Products,” International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 4, 277-295.
  • Zou, X., Pokharel, S, Piplani, R., 2008, "A two-period supply contract model for a decentralized assembly system," European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 187, no. 1, 257-274.
  • Kusumastuti, R.D., Piplani, R., Lim, G.H., 2008. “Redesigning closed-loop service network at a computer manufacturer: a case study,” International Journal of Production Economics, Special Issue on Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Vol. 111 (2), 244-260.
  • S. Viswanathan, H. Widiarta, and R. Piplani, 2007, “Forecasting aggregate time series with lumpy sub-aggregate components: Top-down versus bottom-up Forecasting,” Accepted and forthcoming in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
  • H. Widiarta, S. Viswanathan, and R. Piplani, 2007, “Forecasting Item-Level Demands: An Analytical Evaluation of Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Forecasting in a Production Planning Framework,” Accepted and forthcoming in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
  • Viswanathan, S, Widiarta, H., Piplani, R, 2007, "Value of Information Exchange and Synchronization in a Multi-tier Supply Chain," International Journal of Production Research, 45, 5057-5074.
  • Widiarta, H., Viswanathan, S., Piplani, R., 2007. “On the Effectiveness of Top-Down Approach for Forecasting Autoregressive Demands,” Naval Research Logistics, vol. 54, no. 2, 176-188.
  • Piplani, R., Wetjens, D. 2007. "Entropy-based dispatching rules for Flexible Manufacturing Systems," European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 176, no. 1, 317-331.
  • Piplani, R., 2006, "Coordination in the Supply Chain: Vendor-managed Inventory is the way to go" Serbian Journal of Management, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 41-47.
  • Piplani, R., Yonghui Fu, 2005, "A coordination framework for supply chain inventory alignment," Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 16, Issue 8.
  • Zou, X., Pokharel, S, Piplani, R., 2004, "Channel coordination in an assembly system facing uncertain demand: synchronizing process time and delivery quantity," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No. 22, pp. 4673-4689.
  • Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S., 2004, "Supply Chain Inventory Coordination through Multiple, Common replenishment Epochs and Selective Discount," International Journal of Logistics, Vol. 7, No. 2, 109-118.
  • Piplani, R., Pokharel, S., Tan, A., 2004, "Perspectives on the use of Information Technology at Third Party Logistics Service Providers in Singapore." Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 27-41.
  • Fu, Yonghui, Piplani, R., 2004, "Supply-side collaboration and its value in supply-chains," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 152, Issue 1, 281-288.
  • Piplani, R., Puah, Sen Ann, 2004, "Simplification Strategies for Simulation Models of Semiconductor Facilities." Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 15, No. 7, 618-625.
  • Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S., 2003 "A model for Evaluating Supplier Owned Inventory Strategy." International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 81-82 (C), 565-571.
  • Ng, Woon Kian,  Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S., 2003, "Simulation Workbench for analysing Multi-echelon Supply-chains," Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 14, no. 5, 449-457.
  • Piplani, R., 2002, "Curing Myopia in Automated Analysis of Manufacturing Systems: A Model-based Reasoning Approach," Journal of the Institution of Engineers Singapore, Vol. 42, No. 5, 45-49.
  • Viswanathan, S., Piplani, R., 2001, "Coordinating Supply-chain Inventories through Common Replenishment Epochs," European Journal of Operational Research, 129, 277-286. (Citations: 112)
  • Piplani, R., Hubele, N., 2001, "Enhancement and Evaluation of Pattern Recognition in Control Charts," International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 18 (3), 237-253.
  • Piplani, R., Talavage, J., 1997, "An Integrated Approach to Multi-criteria Design and Control of Manufacturing Systems using Simulation and Goal-regression," International Journal of Production Research, 35(12), 3433-3446.
  • Piplani, R., Talavage, J., 1995, "Loading and Dispatching Strategies for Multi-criteria Control of Closed Manufacturing Systems with Flexible Routing Capability," International Journal of Production Research, 33(8), 2181-2196.

 

WORKING PAPERS  

  • Saraswat, A., Piplani, R. (2008). Design of Robust Service Networks for Reverse Logistics. (Under Review with Computers in Industrial Engineering).
  • Saraswat, A., Piplani, R. (2008). Combined production and distribution scheduling of ready-mix concrete: a multiple vehicle pick-up and delivery problem with time windows. (To be submitted to European Journal of Operational Research).
  • Shudong, L., Piplani, R. (2008). Capacity Rationing and Lead Time Quoting in a Make-to-Order System with two customer classes. (To be submitted to IIE Transactions).
  • Kusumastuti, R.D., Piplani, R., Lim, G.H. (2007). Multi-objective model for design of reverse logistics network for computer recovery. (Under review).

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS PAPERS  

  • Piplani R. and A. Saraswat, "A case study in the design of Service Networks for Reverse Logistics," 5th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, Melbourne, Australia, June 30-July 2, 2008.
  • Piplani R. and A. Saraswat, "Design of Robust Service Networks: Identification of Uncertain Parameters," 37th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, October 21-23, 2007.
  • Piplani R., Vorasayan, J, "A Robust Approach to Optimization of Service Networks for facilitating Reverse Logistics," Int. Conf. on Operations and SCM, Bangkok, Thailand, May 18–19, 2007.
  • Piplani R., Dekker, R, "Design and Analysis of Robust Service Networks," 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, November 5-8, 2006.
  • Piplani R., "Development and comparison of entropy-based dispatching rules in flexible manufacturing systems," 36th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 20-23, 2006.
  • Fong P.Y., Piplani, R., “Combined Production and Distribution Scheduling of Ready-mix Concrete,” 2nd Multi-Disciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, New York, USA, July 18-21, 2005.
  • Xiong Jun, Piplani, R. “Leap-frogging in sequential generation introduction of high-tech consumer products.” Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, December 12-15, 2004.
  • Piplani R., Zhang Weifeng, "Order selection in make-to-order companies: application of yield management," 33rd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Jeju Island, Korea, March 25-27 , 2004.
  • Piplani, R., S. Viswanathan, "Supply Chain Inventory Coordination through Multiple, Common replenishment Epochs and Selective Discount," Sixth International Conference of APORS, Delhi, India, December 8-11, 2003.  (Won second best theoretical paper award)
  • Pang Yoke Fong, Weidong Lin and R. Piplani, "Meta-heuristics based distributed scheduling with consolidated veicle resources for the ready-mix concrete industry," International Conference on Agile manufacturing, Beijing, China, 4-6 December 2003, 507-512.
  • Woon Kian Ng, R. Piplani and S. Viswanathan, "Information Exchange Mechanisms for a 4-Echelon Supply Chain," 30th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Tinos Island, Greece, June 28-July 2, 2002.
  • Fu, Yonghui, Piplani, R., Aligning Inventory Control Decisions in Decentralized Supply Chains, 13th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2001), Marseilles, France, pp. 909-913, 2001.
  • Fu, Yonghui, Piplani, R., "Managing Inventory Dependencies in Decentralized Supply-chains," International Conference on Integrated Logistics , Singapore, August 22-24, 2001.
  • Piplani, R., Puah, Sen Ann, "Production Planning in Semiconductor Industry using Simulation: Simplification strategies." International Conference on Production Research,  Prague, Czech Republic, 30 July- 3 August, 2001.
  • Fu, Yonghui, Piplani, R., "A Collaborative Supply-chain model for inventory management," 10th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference , Dallas, May 20-22, 2001.
  • Wang Sen, Yu Wei Shin, Kumar, A., Piplani, R., "Supply-chain demand response strategy evaluation and optimization," Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, 12-15 Nov. 2000, Singapore, pp. 782-787.
  • Piplani, R., Viswanathan, S., "A model for Evaluating Supplier Owned Inventory Strategy." 11th International Symposium on Inventories , Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2000.
  • Piplani, R., Miranti, F., "Costing Models for Vendor-managed Inventory." International Conference on Production Research ,  Bangkok, Thailand, August 2-4, 2000.
  • Piplani, R. "Multi-criteria satisficing for Supply-chain Management: a hierarchical approach." Operational Research  Society of Japan Fall Conference,  Tokyo, Japan, Septemeber 20-21, 1999.
  • Piplani, R. "Development of a Generic Object Hierarchy for Representation of Manufacturing Control Elements." OOPSLA ‘97 Workshop on Applied Object Technology for Manufacturing, Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, 16-17 June 1997.
  • Piplani, R., TalavageJ., "Definition and Quantification of System Interference in Flexible Manufacturing Systems." Proceedings of the Fifth IERC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 18-20 May 1996, pp. 803-808.
  • Piplani, R., Talavage, J., "Prescriptive Simulation for Multi-Criteria Operational Control of Manufacturing Systems." Proceedings of the Third IERC, Atlanta, Georgia, 18-19 May 1994, pp. 148-153.
  • Piplani, R., Talavage, J., "Conjunctive Goal Planning: An Application to Manufacturing Control." The Seventh International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Austin, TX, May 31- June 3 1994, pp. 541-544.


RESEARCH MEMORANDUM AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 

  • Piplani, R., N. Pujawan, S. Ray, 2008. “Sustainable Supply Chain Management,” International Journal of Production Economics, Forward of Special Issue on Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Vol. 111 (2), 193-194.
  • Survey Report, October 1999. "Survey on the use of Information Technology in Logistics Operations 1999," Co-authored with NCB, TDB and NTU participants.
  • Piplani, Rajesh and J. Talavage, November 1995. "An Integrated Approach to Multi-criteria Design and Control of Manufacturing Systems using Simulation and Goal-regression." School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Research Memorandum No. 95-18.
  • Piplani, Rajesh, March 1994. "Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Decision Support for Design and Operation." Journal of Manufacturing Systems, vol. 13, no. 1 (A book review).
  • NSF funded project, Grant no. ECS-8816483, Principal Investigator: Dr. Norma F. Hubele. Contributed sections on Generation Expansion and Maintenance Planning to the final report entitled "A Systems Approach to Decision-making Problems Involving Electric Load Forecasts."
  • Piplani, Rajesh, Spring 1990. "Future Factory Systems." Technical Horizons, vol. 11-5.


TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Area-editor of International Journal of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, since 2006.
  • Editorial Board member, Serbian journal of Management, since 2006.
  • Co-editor of special issue of “International Journal of Production Economics” on Sustainable Supply Chain Management.
  • Member of National Science Foundation (USA) peer review panel (April 2005) to review unsolicited proposals submitted to the Manufacturing Enterprise Systems program.
  • Chairman, Publicity Committee, International Conference on Integrated Logistics, Singapore, August 2001.
  • Technical Committee member, International Conference on Computer-integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, 2000.
  • Reviewer for the International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and the Third Industrial Engineering Research Conference, May '94.
  • Past Secretary, Operational Research Society of Singapore.