FACULTY PROFILE

Dr Debashish Jena earned his BE in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Allahabad and his PhD in Operations Management from IIM Lucknow. Before entering academia, he worked as a management consultant for the National Productivity Council (NPC), a body of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. Additionally, he has also been a Guest Faculty at several IIMs. As a consultant, trainer, and researcher, he has more than 20 years of expertise. Dr Jena offers a range of courses in analytics, decision sciences, project management, supply chain management, service operations management, and management of revenues.

He also has a wealth of consulting and training experience in industries dealing with Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Processes, Energy and Services. He effortlessly bridges the gap between business and academia with clients like Cadbury India, NTPC, NALCO, Indian Oil Corporation, Apollo Hospital, GAP International, Rail Coach Factory, Hero Cycles, Ashok Leyland, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Power, MRKFED, MILKFED, and ESI Hospitals.

Education
Ph D 2006-2011 Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
PGDIE 1996-1998 National Productivity Council
B E (Mech.) 1991-1995 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad 
Experience
2011 – Till date

Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
1998 – 2006 Assistant Director, National Productivity Council (under Ministry of Comm. and Industry)
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Service Operations Management
  • Games and Simulation
  • Operations Management
  • Project Management
  • Lean operations management
  • Advanced mathematical programming and simulation (doctoral)
  • Decision Making under Uncertainty
  • Operations Research
  • Revenue Management
Research Interests
  • Production planning and scheduling
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • Multi-sourcing 
  • Returns Management
  • Revenue Management and Analytics
  • Deep learning in the supply chain
  • ML in circular economy
  • Decison Risk Analysis
Research Projects

 

Consulting Projects
  • Productivity study, workforce planning and optimization at Cadbury India
  • Establishment of long range executive manpower requirement at NTPC, New Delhi
  • Product Mix and Capacity planning, for Aluminum rolling plant at NALCO, Angul
  • Technology up-gradation, low-cost automation and process improvement for Bicycle Cluster under the aegis of SDC, SIDBI & Hero Cycles
  • Lean implementation, capacity & production planning application for auto component cluster under the aegis of MSME, GoI and Ashok Leyland, Rudrapur
  • Manufacturing Process, Design and Technology improvement Rail Coach Factory(RCF) Kapurthala
  • Manufacturing Process improvement, innovation, productions norms & manpower planning, Kamla Dials & Devices
  • Process improvement and re-engineering for Apparel suppliers to GAP India, Gurgaon
  • Productivity Study and Process improvement across Indian Leather Industry, Ministry of Leather, GoI
  • Productivity study and benchmarking for ESI Hospitals, Punjab
  • Process improvements, and lab staff optimization for Diagnostic Labs at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
  • Accelerated Power Development and Reforms (APDRP) project, Ministry of Power, GoI
  • Production norms, and manpower planning for Automobile bearing manufacturing unit at Gabriel Industries(Anand Group), HP
  • Productivity linked Incentive Scheme Design, MILKFED, Punjab
  • Product Mix planning and Materials Management, MARKFED, Punjab
  • Office automation- Software development for Case Document Management at Office of Advocate General, Govt of Punjab
  • Executive MBA in Energy Transition 
  • Supply Chain Management in Oil & Gas Sector for IOCL excutives
  • MDP on Project Management in Refining, Marketing and Gas Sector
  • Productivity- Modern Trends at HAL Corba
  • Management Decision Making for NTPC executives in Advanced Management Program at PMI, NOIDA
  • Supply Chain Management in Oil & Gas Sector for IOCL executives
  • Project Management in CGD networks for Oil & Gas sector executives at OIDB
  • Method study and Process improvements for RCF, Kapurthala
  • Product & Process Innovation at IOCL Panipat
  • Team Work & Motivation for SVJN, HP
  • Project Management for Punjab Infotech Ltd. (under Govt. of Punjab), Chandigarh
  • Cost reduction through Value Engineering for MSME sector in Himachal Pradesh

Journal Publications

“Prediction of Consumers Refill Frequency of LPG: A Study Using Explainable Machine Learning.” Heliyon 10 (1): Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024, e23466.

"Maintenance in Aviation Enabled by Industry 4.0 Technologies: Exploring the Current Research Trends Using Topic Modeling Approach.” International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, December 12, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-11-2023-0625.

“Crack Spread Forecasting for Supply Chain Optimization – A Hybrid Model Using Time Series and Deep Learning with Bayesian Optimizations,” Academy of Marketing Studies Journal 28, no. 3 (2024): 1–25.

“Decoding Sustainable LPG: A Topic Modeling Study on Emerging Patterns and Practices,” Academy of Marketing Studies Journal 28, no. 2 (2024): 1–23.

“Recognize and Thrive: Predicting Employees’ Satisfaction towards Fairness in Reward and Recognition System Using Explainable Machine Learning and Text Mining.” Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, August 27, 2024.

 

Conference Publications

 “A Machine Learning model for Forecasting Domestic LPG Demand” presented at the XXIIIth Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Kanpur, Dec 2019

 “Implementation of Spreadsheet based Capacity Planning tool for an Auto component Manufacturer”, presented at the XX Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIITM, Gwalior, India, Dec 2016.

 “A real-world MBA course timetabling application using Excel VBA”, presented at the XIX Annual Conference of Society of Operations Management, IIM, Calcutta, India, Dec 2015.

 “Multi-stage hybrid re-entrant flow shop planning with application to aluminum rolled product”, presented .at the 21st POMS Annual Conference, Vancouver, 2010.

 “Process Improvement in Precision Component Manufacturing: A Case Based Approach”, Proceedings of the International Multi Conference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, Vol- II, Hong Kong, 2011.  

 “A Constraint Programming Approach to a Re-entrant Line problem with time lags and partial resource flexibility”, presented at the XIVth Annual Conference of Society of Operations Management, held at NITIE, Mumbai, India, Dec 2010. 

 “General Precedence based continuous time planning model for Aluminium rolled product manufacturing”, presented at the XIII th Annual Conference of Society of Operations Management, held at IIT, Madras, India, Dec 2009.  

 “Tactical insights from Joint Crew allocation and Oven scheduling: A case study”, presented at the XIIth Annual Conference of Society of Operations Management, held at IIT, Kanpur, India, Dec 2008

Case Studies

Jena, D. & Srivastava, R.K. “Watch Dial Manufacturing: Design, Operation and Improvement”, IIML Case Series: 2009-10/ 01

Jena, D. & Srivastava, R.K. “Improving Operations in Watch Dial Manufacturing”, IIML Case Series: 2009-10/ 02

  • Chairperson, Publicity and Promotion Committee 
  • Invited member, Senate 
  • Dept. Representative, Institute Social Media Committee
  • Dept. Representative, Institute Website Committee
  • Member, DPGC, DoMS 
  • Member, DPGC, CSE
  • Member, Guest Hostel, Purchase Committee
  • Member, Gyanarpan Logistics Committee
  • AIR - 2021, IIT JEE 1991
  • Best Paper Award: Jena D and Padhy R K “Implementation of Spreadsheet-based Capacity Planning tool for an Auto component Manufacturer”, presented at the XX Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIITM, Gwalior, India, December 2016

Kaushal K Jha

  • Research Topic : Study of Maintenance 4.0 in the Aviation Sector
  • Awarding Institution : RGIPT, Jais
  • Year : 2021 (Part-time)

Abhijit Deb Roy

  • Research Topic : Exploring Adoption and Sustainability Aspects of LPG Use: Machine Learning-Based Applications
  • Awarding Institution : RGIPT, Jais
  • Year : 2016 (Part-time)

Praveen Kumar

  • Research Topic : Leveraging Deep Learning for Enhanced Forecasting in Downstream Oil and Gas Industry
  • Awarding Institution : RGIPT, Jais
  • Year : 2016 (Part-time)

Dr Debashish Jena

Assistant Professor
Operations and Supply Chain Management
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