Dr. N. Ravichandran

"Teacher By Choice"

N. Ravichandran was the 4th (regular) director of The Indian Institute of Management Indore. He is an MSc in maths from Annamalai University and holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is currently a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of Strategy, Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques...Read More

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N. Ravichandran was the 4th (regular) director of The Indian Institute of Management Indore. He is an MSc in maths from Annamalai University and holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is currently a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of Strategy, Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques.

Educational Qualification

MSc Annamalai University
PhD Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Administrative Positions Held

Professional/Academic Affiliation

Friends and Family

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Teaching

IIM Ahmedabad

March 2019 - Present

IIM Indore

March 2019 - Present

Manipal University

March 2019 - Present

Publication

Conference Proceedings

  1. N. Ravichandran (2014), An Operations Framework for Project Management, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 9-12, 2014.
  2. N. Ravichandran (2014), Practice Precedes Theory in Management: An Empirical Evidence in the Context of Business Strategy, Second Pan-IIM Conference, IIM Kozhikode, November 5-8, 2014.
  3. Bhavin Shah and N. Ravichandran (2014), Discount Coupons at BFL: A Privilege to Shareholders or A Means to Erode Shareholders’ Wealth? Anniversary Conference 2014 (Case Centre, U.K.), held in IIM Bangalore, September 8-9, 2014.
  4. N. Ravichandran and R. Radha (2014), Ms Tara’s Dilemma: To Litigate or Otherwise, Presented in 13th National Case Writing Workshop, April 25-27, 2014 held at Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Gwalior.
  5. N. Ravichandran (2008), Blood Banking in India, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC October 12-15, 2008.
  6. N. Ravichandran (2008), Promoting OR in India: Challenges and Opportunities, IFORS 2008, Sandton, South Africa, July 13-18, 2008
  7. N. Ravichandran (2008), OR in Health Care, Third National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 22-24, 2008.
  8. N. Ravichandran (2007), Experiences of designing a study tour to the post graduate students of IIMA, Fifth AIMS International Conference on Management (AIMS5), Hyderabad, December 27-30, 2007.
  9. N. Ravicandran (2007), Health Care Delivery Models in India: An Overview, 40th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, New Delhi, December 4-6, 2007.
  10. N. Ravichandran (2007), Case on Simplifly : Evolution of Low Cost Air Line in India, Annual Meeting of North American Case Research Association, Keystone, Denver, October 18-20, 2007.
  11. N. Ravichandran (2007), Hospital Supplies Management: A Radical Prescription, HOSMAN 2007, Second National Health Care Conference, Kochi, October 6-7, 2007.
  12. N. Ravichandran (2007), OR and Health Care: An Opportunity Assessment, Operations Research Applied to Health Science (ORAHS), Saint-Etienne, France, July 15-20, 2007.
  13. N. Ravichandran (2007), Jaipur Foot: A Case Study on Mass Customization, POMS, London School of Business, London, July 12-13, 2007.
  14. N. Ravichandran (2007), Some Comments on Perishable Inventory Sysems, EURO 2007, Prague, July 8-11, 2007.
  15. N. Ravichandran (2007), Stochastic Models in Management Science, Theme Presentation, Second National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, March 9-11, 2007.
  16. N. Ravichandran (2007), Some Comments on Perishable Inventory Systems, Second National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, March 9-11, 2007.
  17. N. Ravichandran (2007), Models in Management in Science: Issues in Implementation, ORSP 20th Anniversary and 2007 National Conference, Manila, Philippines, February 16, 2007.
  18. N. Ravichandran (2006), Bullwhip Effect: Concept, Implications and Responses – A Tutorial, 39th Annual Convention of ORSI, Kolkata, January 5-7, 2007.
  19. N. Ravichandran (2006), Closed Loop Queueing Model for Material Handling Systems, INFORMS, Pittsburgh, November 5-8, 2006.
  20. N. Ravichandran (2006), Bullwhip Effect: Concept, Implications and Responses – A Tutorial,14th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 21-25, 2006.
  21. N. Ravichandran (2006), Election Logistics in India: A Process Based Approach, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Euro XXI 2006, Iceland, July 2-5, 2006.
  22. N. Ravichandran (2006), IT Enabled Supply Chain: An Indian Case Study, INFORMS, Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2006.
  23. N. Ravichandran (2006), Innovations in Health Care Delivery: An Indian Case Study, 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, INCOM’2006, Saint Etienne, France, May 17-19, 2006.
  24. Saumya Kolluri and N. Ravichandran (2006), Competing through Mass customization: A case in Indian Furniture Industry, National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 31 – April 1, 2006
  25. Surya Prasad and N.Ravichandran (2006), Revamping GSRTC, National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 31 – April 1, 2006
  26. N. Ravichandran (2006), Tutorial on OR Applications, National Conference on Management Science and Practice, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 31 – April 1, 2006
  27. N. Ravichandran (2006), Sundaram Medical Foundation, MCHCI, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 21-24, 2006.
  28. N. Ravichandran (2006), (Invited Talk), Wisdom From Real Life Experiences, APORS 2006, Manila, Phillippines, January 16-18, 2006.
  29. N. Ravichandran and K. Sharat Chandra (2006), Excellence in Logistics - A case study from a social sector in India The International Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM 2006), Hong Kong January 5-7, 2006.
  30. N. Ravichandran (2005), Wisdom from Real Life Experiences, ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 27-29, 2005.
  31. N. Ravichandran (2005), National Seed Company: Portfolio of Computer Applications, International Conference on Management Case Studies (ICMC2005), Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, December 19-20, 2005.
  32. N. Ravichandran (2005), Mumbai Widget Limited: Supply Chain Efficiency and Improvement Initiatives, IX Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, December 16-18, 2005.
  33. N. Ravichandran (2005), Models in Management in Science: Issues in Implementation, National Conference on Applied Stochastic Processes (NCASP-2005), Invited Talk, Department of Mathematics, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai, December 17, 2005.
  34. N. Ravichandran (2005), Excellence in Project Management: Lessons from Amalgamation of Banks, INFORMS, San Francisco, Nov. 13-16, 2005.
  35. N. Ravichandran (2005), Participated in the 7th ISIR Summer School on Supply Chain Inventory Management, Mennheim Business School, University of Mannheim, Germany, August 14-19, 2005.
  36. N. Ravichandran (2005), A case on supply chain planning in a process industry in India, IFORS, Hawaii, July 11-15, 2005.
  37. N. Ravichandran (2005), A Process Oriented Approach to Waiting Line Management in a Large Pilgrimage Center in India, EUROMA 2005, Budapest, Hungary, June 19-21, 2005.
  38. N. Ravichandran (2005), Tuberculosis Control in developing countries: A Generalized Community Health Worker Based Model, 37th Annual Convention of Operations Research Society of India, January 8-11, 2005, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
  39. N. Ravichandran (2004), Logistics: The Bombay Dabbawala’s Operations, INFORMS, Denver, Oct. 24-27, 2004.
  40. N. Ravichandran (2004), A Finite Horizon Inventory Model: An Operational Framework, 13th ISIR Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 22-27, 2004.
  41. Resource person by invitation for a workshop on Global Sourcing, preceding the 9th International Symposium on Logistics (9th ISL), Logistics and Global Outsourcing, Bangalore, India, July 11-14, 2004.
  42. N. Ravichandran (2004), Management of Spares in a Public Transport Utility in India: A Simulation based optimization model, MSOM Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 1-2, 2004
  43. N. Ravichandran (2004), Operations Management as a Change Agent: A Framework based on Indian case studies, EUROMA 2004, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, June 27-29, 2004.
  44. N. Ravichandran (2004), Improved Efficiency in Logistics Using ERP, COS-INFORMS Conference, Banff, Canada, May 16-19, 2004
  45. N. Ravichandran, Devanath Tirupati and Satyendra Kumar (2003), Bharat Cements Limited: Optimizing Route Planning, APORS 2003, New Delhi, December 8-10, 2003.
  46. N. Ravichandran (2003), Modelling LPG Distribution in India, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 19-22, 2003.
  47. N. Ravichandran (2003), Improving In-plant Logistics by Process Reengineering: Case Study, 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence, Melbourne, October 13-15, 2003.
  48. N. Ravichandran (2003), Participated as a Senior Researcher in the ISIR Summer School, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, August 18-22, 2003.
  49. N. Ravichandran (2003), Stochastic Inventory Models: An Operations Management Perspective, Seminar on Point Processes - SPP-2003, Anna University, Madras, August 8-9, 2003.
  50. N. Ravichandran (2003), Hospital Supplies Management: A Radical Prescription, EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, July 6-10, 2003.
  51. N. Ravichandran (2003), Regional Passport Office, Ahmedabad: Rapid Response Time by Process Redesign, MSOM conference, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, June 16-17, 2003.
  52. N. Ravichandran (2003), Competitive Strategy in Indian Hospitals: A New Framework, 6th Convention of Strategic Management Forum of India, XLRI Jamshedpur, April 24-26, 2003.
  53. N. Ravichandran (2002), Towards Lean Logisics: A Framework, XXXV Annual Convention of ORSI - ICORD 2002, Madras, December 27-30, 2002.
  54. N. Ravichandran (2002), Transplantations of Toyota Systems in the Indian Context, VI Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Kozhikode, December 20-22, 2002
  55. N. Ravichandran (2002), Optimal Scheduling Algorithm for an Ophthalmologist's Clinic, The International Conference on Modeling and Simulating of Complex System, Business School of Sichuan University, P.R. China, June 11-14, 2002.
  56. N. Ravichandran (2001), Materials Management System in Larger Hospitals, Operational Research Society of India (Annual Conference), Calcutta, December 29-31, 2001.
  57. N. Ravichandran (2001), Tutorial on Lean Logistics, Operations Management Society Conference, Bombay, December 21-23, 2001.
  58. N. Ravichandran (2001), Competing Through Manufacturing: A Framework for Implementation, Informs International, Maui, Hawai, June 17-20, 2001.
  59. N. Ravichandran (2001), Competitive Environment in India: A Framework for Corporate Response, Hawai Business Conference, June 14-17, 2001.
  60. N. Ravichandran (2001), ERP Implementation Issues, International Conference on OR in Developing countries, Johhensberg, May 16-18, 2001.
  61. N. Ravichandran and V.R.V. Shriprasad (2000), Competing Through Manufacturing: A Case Study, Operations Management Conference 4, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, December 22-24, 2000.
  62. N. Ravichandran, et al. (2000), Optimal Scheduling Rules for an Opthalmologist’s Clinic, Annual Meeting of Operations Research Society of India, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, December 13-15, 2000.
  63. N. Ravichandran (2000), Management Concepts from the Indian Epic Ramayana, International Conference on Ramayana and Mahabharata II, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, September 13-15, 2000.
  64. N. Ravichandran (2000), Teaching Simulation Course for Management Students, APORS 2000, Singapore, July 5-7, 2000.
  65. N. Ravichandran (1999), Teaching Simulation at IIMA: An Experience, OR Society Conference, S.V. University, Tirupathi, December 20-22, 1999.
  66. Kalyan Bhattacharya and N. Ravichandran (1999), Simulation Based Decision Support System for Blood Bank Management, The 15th Triennial Conference, The International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Beijing, China, August 16-20, 1999.
  67. N. Ravichandran (1998), A decision support system for Shop Scheduling, Informs Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 26-29, 1998.
  68. N. Ravichandran (1998), Stochastics Models in Supply Chain Management, International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Department of Mathematics, Anna University, Madras, January 08-10, 1998.
  69. N. Ravichandran (1997), BPR Implementation in Indian Organisations, Operational Research Society Conference, Jamshedpur, December 22-24, 1997.
  70. N. Ravichandran (1997), Revised National Tuberculosis Programme: A Case of BPR, APORMS, Manila, Philippines, November 25-28, 1997.
  71. N. Ravichandran (1997), Royal Enfield Motors Limited, Proceedings of North American Case Research – Association Annual Meeting, Vol. 11, No. 2, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 23-25, 1997.
  72. N. Ravichandran (1995), Perishable Inventory Systems: The case of Blood Bank, INFORMS, Singapore, June 25-28, 1995.
  73. A. Korwar, N. Ravichandran and S.C. Bhatnagar (1995), National Office Automation Company, Proceedings of North American Case Research Annual Meeting, Vol. 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 23-25, 1995.
  74. N. Ravichandran (1994), MSRTC: Management of Tyre Logistics, Operations Research Society of India Convention held in Calcutta, December 20-22, 1994.
  75. N. Ravichandran (1993), Monto Curlo Simulation of Parallel Redundant Systems - Paper presented in the International TIMS/ORSA meeting held at Paris - June 1993.
  76. N. Ravichandran and R. Sridharan (1992), Allocation of Buses to Depots: A Decision Support System; - Presented in the International Conference on Operations Research in Development Countries held in IIMA - December 1992.
  77. N. Ravichandran and S.P. Seetharaman (1991), A Decision Support System for Distribution Planning, ORSI meeting, Bangalore, December 26-28, 1991.

Reviewed Articles

  1. N. Ravichandran (2014), Book Review, (At the Helm: A Memoir by V. Krishnamurthy, Harper Business), Vikalpa, Vol.39, No.3, July-September 2014.
  2. Harshal Lowalekar and N. Ravichandran (2013) Blood Bank Inventory Management in India, OPSEARCH, Springer 2013.
  3. Harshal Lowalekar and N. Ravichandran (2011) A Model for Blood Components Processing, Transfusion, GSABC Journal of Blood Services, Volume 51, July 2011, pp. 1624-1634.
  4. Harshal Lowalekar and N. Ravichandran (2010) Model for Blood Collections management, Transfusion, Journal of Blood Services, Volume 50, pp. 2778-2784.
  5. N. Ravichandran (2013) An Alternative Direction for Doctoral Education, Indian School of Business Insight, Volume 09, Issue 4, pp. 18-20 (invited contribution).
  6. N. Ravichandran (2007), A Finite Horizon Inventory Model: An Operational Framework, International Journal of Production Economics, 108 (2007) 406-417.
  7. N. Ravichandran (2007), Coordinator, Genesis – Creating Value through Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Colloquium, Vikalpa, Vol. 32, No. 2, April-June 2007.
  8. N. Ravichandran (2007), A Finite Horizon Inventory Model: An Operational Framework, International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, 108 (2007), pp. 406-415
  9. N. Ravichandran (2007), Building World Class Educational Institutions in India: Challenges and Prospects, Colloquium, Vikalpa, Vol. 32, No. 1, January-March 2007.
  10. N. Ravichandran and Ankur Roy (2006), Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited: Managing the Value Chain Transformation, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, IVEY, 9B06M071.
  11. N. Ravichandran and Doorva Bahuguna (2006), Rule Bound Government Agency to Customer Centric Facility: Can Indian Passport Offices Make the Leap? IIMB Management Review, March 2006 Issue, Volume 18 Number 1, pp. 59-66.
  12. N. Ravichandran (2006), Hospital Supplies Management: A Radical Prescription, Effulgence, Vol. 4, No. 1, January-June 2006, pp.13-20.
  13. N. Ravichandran (2005), Supply Chain Planning in a Process Industry in India: A Case Study, Metamorphosis, A Journal of Management Research, IIM Lucknow, Volume 4, Number 2, 2005, pp. 157-169.
  14. N. Ravichandran and I.V. Subba Rao (2005), A Process oriented Approach to Waiting Line Management in a Large Pilgrimage Center in India: A Case Study, The Smart Manager, Vol 5, Issue 1, pp. 69-76.
  15. N. Ravichandran and Manish Srivastava (2005), Revolutionizing Blood Banking in India: Prathama Blood Center, The ICFAI University Press, February 2005, pp. 48-62.
  16. N. Ravichandran and P.K. Sinha (2004), Cool King Limited, Asian Journal of Management Cases, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Vol 1, Number 2, 2004, pp. 146-160.
  17. N. Ravichandran (2004), South Africa and the AIDS Epidemic, Diagnoses, Vikalpa, Vol 29, No. 3, July-September 2004, pp. 135-151.
  18. Vivek Golcha, Vikas Gupta and N.Ravichandran (2004), Ahmedabad Management Association: A Search for Strategic Direction, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Vol. 29, No. 3, July-September 2004.
  19. N. Ravichandran (2003), Improving In-plant Logistics by Process Reengineering: Case Study, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence, Melbourne, October 13-15, 2003.
  20. N. Ravichandran (2003), Coordinator, Indian Banking Sector: Challenges and Opportunities, Colloquium, Vikalpa, Vol. 28, No. 3, July-September 2003.
  21. Doorva Bahuguna and N. Ravichandran (2003), Ahmedabad Regional Passport Office: Rapid Response Time by Process Redesign, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Vol. 28, No. 3, July-September 2003, pp. 101-111.
  22. N. Ravichandran, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd: (2003), Diagnosis, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Vol. 28, No. 1, January-March 2003, pp. 125-127.
  23. S.K. Maheshwari and N. Ravichandran (2003), Mangalore Chemicals and fertilizers Limited: Strategic Renewal, Asian Case Research Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 219-268.
  24. N. Ravichandran (2003), Stochastic Inventory Models: An Operations Management Perspective, Edited Proceedings (edited by S.K. Srinivasan and A. Vijayakumar) of the Seminar on Point Processes - SPP-2003, Narosa Publications, pp. 272-286.
  25. Anand Sridharan and N. Ravichandran (2001), Amtrex Hitachi Appliances Limited: Competing for the Future, Vikalpa, Vol. 26, No. 4, October-December 2001, pp. 67-89.
  26. N. Ravichandran, A. Sridharan and V.T. Bharadwaj (2001): Needed: A Revised ERP Strategy, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Volume 26, Number 1, January-March 2001, Page 120-123.
  27. N. Ravichandran (2000), Lucas-TVS Limited: Past, Present and Future, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Volume 25, Number 4, October-December 2000, Page 82-83.
  28. N. Ravichandran (2000), Konkan Railway Corporation: Marketing Strategy, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Volume 25, Number 3, July-September 2000, Page 73-74.
  29. N. Ravichandran (2000), Asoka Spintex : Transformation of a Composite Textile Unit to Spinning Division, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Volume 25, Number 2, April-June 2000, Page 69-70.
  30. N. Ravichandran (1997), OMECL: A Case for Process Redesign, Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, Indian Institute of Management, Volume 22, No. 3, July-September 1997, Page 95-97.
  31. N. Ravichandran (1995), Stochastic Analysis of a Continuous Review Perishable Inventory System with Positive Lead Time and Poison Demand, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 84, 1995, 444-457.
  32. S.K. Srinivasan and N. Ravichandran (1994), Multi item (S,s) inventory model with Poisson Demand, General Lead time and adjustable reorder size, -G.V. Krishna Reddy et al, (Reviewed edited), Proceedings of the Conference of Stochastic Models, Optimization and Computer Application, Wiley Eastern Limited, 1994, pp. 226-236.
  33. M. Pijnenburg, N. Ravichandran and G.Regterschot (1993), Stochastic analysis of a dependent parallel system, European Journal of Operational Research 68, pp. 90-104
  34. V. Raman and N. Ravichandran (1992), Production Planning Models in a Refinery - Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Convention of ORSI held in IIMA; OR in India A retrospective - pp. 89-97, Wiley Eastern Ltd, Dec. 1992.
  35. D.N. Basu, N.Ravichandran, P.Rengarajan, and A.Tripathy (1991), Agro Climatic Regional Planning: A (Prototype) Expert System, National Seminar 91, CSI, February 21-22, 1991, Ahmedabad, pp. 89-99.
  36. M.Pijnenburg and N. Ravichandran (1991), Quasi-Stationary Distributions of a Two-Unit Dependent Parallel System, OPSEARCH, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 264-281.
  37. N. Ravichandran (1991), Issues on Computerization in Road Transport Undertakings, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Journal of Transport Management, November 1991, pp. 5-10.
  38. N. Ravichandran (1991), Decentralized Computing in Materials Management, Udyog Pragati, January-June 1991, pp. 27-29.
  39. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1990), Correlation Functions in Reliability Theory, Proceedings of the Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, held in honor of Professor S.K. Srinivasan, December 27-30, 1990, Bombay, India, published by Springer-Verlag Lecture Note Series 360, pp. 282-292.
  40. O.P. Sharma, N. Ravichandran and J.Dass (1989), Transient Analysis of Multiple-Unit Reliability Systems, Naval Research Logistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Vol. 36, pp. 255-264.
  41. S.K. Srinivasan and N. Ravichandran (1989), Analysis of (S, s) Inventory System with Decaying Items, Progress in Inventory Research, Edited by Attila Chikan, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1989, pp. 433-439.
  42. N. Ravichandran (1988), Probabilistic Analysis of a Continuous Review Perishable Inventory System with Markovian Demand, Erlangian Life and Non-instantaneous Lead Time, OR Spektrum (1988) 10:23-27, Springer-Verlag 1988.
  43. N. Ravichandran (1988), On the Use of Renewal Theory in the Analysis of Redundant Systems, Proceedings of the Seminar Series of INRIA (Institute National De Rescherche En Informatiqute et en Automatique, pp. 137-149.
  44. N. Ravichandran (1988), Probabilistic analysis of a continuous review perishable inventory system with Markovian demand, Erlangian life and non-instantaneous lead time. Journal: OR Spektrum, Vol. 10, pp. 23-27.
  45. N. Ravichandran (1987), The Evolution of Computer Applications in MRL, Petroleum Asia Journal, Vol. X No. 3, September 1987, pp. 121-125.
  46. N.M. Balasubrahmanyam and N. Ravichandran (1986), Rescheduling Mail/Express and Goods Trains – A Simulation Model, Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation Systems Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd, December 18-22, 1986, pp. 455-459.
  47. N. Ravichandran and A. Gravey (1984), Some comments on the simple queue, Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 16, pp. 933-935.
  48. N. Ravichandran (1984), A Note on (S, s) Inventory Policy, SP Aggarwal (edited) Operational Research in Managerial Systems, Academic Publications, India, pp. 136-140.
  49. N. Ravichandran (1984), A note on (S,s) inventory policy, AIIE Transactions, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 387-390.
  50. N. Ravichandran (1982), Availability Measures for a class of Redundant Systems, Reliability in Electrical and Electronic Components and Systems, North-Holland Publishing Company (edited by E.Lauger and J.Moltoft), 1982.
  51. N. Ravichandran (1982), General Analysis of a 2-unit warm standby redundant repairable system with preventive maintenance, Proceedings of Indian Statistical Institute Golden Jubilee celebrations held in Delhi from 15-18 February 1982, T3-44-61.
  52. N. Ravichandran, June (1982), Availability measures for a class of systems, Proceedings of EUROCON'82 held in Copenhagen, pp. 1077-1079.
  53. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1981), Interval Reliability of a redundant system, Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 409-421.
  54. N. Ravichandran (1981), Analysis of a Two-Unit Parallel Redundant System with Phase Type Failure and General repair, Microelectron Reliab., Pergamon Press Ltd, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 569-572.
  55. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1981), Interval reliability of an n-unit system with single repair facility, IEEE Transactions on Reliability (Special Issue) R-30.
  56. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1981), On the use of regeneration point technique in reliability theory, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-38, pp. 388-390.
  57. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1981), Study of A 2-Unit Priority Standby System, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume R-30, Number 4, October 1981, pp.388-390.
  58. N. Ravichandran (1981), Stochastic point processes in Reliability theory - An illustrative example, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference RECOMEX'81 held in Poland, September pp. 59-65.
  59. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1981), A complex system with preventive maintenance, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 559-567.
  60. R. Subramanian, N. Ravichandran and N.Natarajan (1981), Stochastic models of 2 unit system, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-30, pp. 85-86.
  61. N. Ravichandran (1981), Analysis of a 2-unit parallel redundant system with phase type failure and general repair, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 569-572.
  62. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran, August (1980), On the methods of obtaining interval reliability of redundant systems, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Reliability and Maintainability held in Lannion, France, pp. 219-224.
  63. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), A 2-Unit Priority Redundant System with Premptive Resume Repair, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-29, Number 2, June 1980, pp. 183-184.
  64. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), On a series parallel system, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 20, pp. 525-527.
  65. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), An n-unit priority redundant system, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 20, pp. 525-527.
  66. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), A 2-unit redundant system, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 19, pp. 277-278.
  67. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), A Complex 2 unit system, Zeitschrift fur Operations Research (ZOR), Vol. 24, pp. 83-90.
  68. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), Probabilistic analysis of a 2-unit standby redundant system with finite repair capacity, OPSEARCH, Vol. 17, No 2 and 3, pp. 71-80.
  69. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), Probabilistic analysis of a 2-unit parallel redundant system, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 19, pp. 321-324.
  70. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1980), A redundant systems with bulk replacement, Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematic and Mechanic (ZAMM), Vol. 60, pp. 632-34.
  71. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1979), Stochastic behaviour of a 2-unit redundant system, IEEE Transactions and Reliability, Vol. R-28, pp. 419-423.
  72. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1979), Interval reliability of a 2-unit redundant system, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-228, p. 81.
  73. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1978), Availability of a redundant system, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-27, pp. 237-238.
  74. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1978), Availability of a 2-unit redundant system with preventive maintenance, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol.R-27, pp. 73-74.
  75. R. Subramanian and N. Ravichandran (1978), On a n-unit standby redundant system with imperfect switchover, Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 17, pp. 585-586.

Books (Edited and Authored)

  1. Nagarajan Krishnamurthy and N. Ravichandran (2014) (Editors) Proceedings of the Advanced Tutorial and Workshop on Operations Research, IIM Indore, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
  2. N. Ravichandran (2013) (Editor), Management Science and Practice (MSP 2009), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
  3. N. Ravichandran (2011) (Editor), Management Science and Practice (MSP 2008), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
  4. N. Ravichandran (2008) (Editor), Management Science and Practice (MSP 2007) organized in memory of Professor S.K. Srinivasan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  5. N. Ravichandran (2006) (Editor), Management Science and Practice, National Conference on Management Science and Practice organized in honor of Professor Jahar Saha, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  6. N. Ravichandran (2006) (Editor), Vision 2020: The Strategic Role of Operational Research, 37th Annual Convention of Operations Research Society of India, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  7. N. Ravichandran (1999) (Editor), Competition in Indian Industries: A Strategic Perspective, Vikas Publishing Co. Ltd, New Delhi.
  8. N. Ravichandran, (1998) (Co-Editor), Corporate Strategy and Government Policy: Some Linkages, IIMA Publication.
  9. N. Ravichandran (1991) (Editor), Microcomputers in Materials Management, Wiley Eastern Limited, India.
  10. N. Ravichandran (1990) Stochastic Methods in Reliability Theory, Wiley Eastern Limited, India.
  11. N. Ravichandran (2023) (Co-Author), Managing Social Organisations: Lessons from the World’s Largest Pilgrimage Centre, WILEY Publications

Cases

Cases
  1. N. Ravichandran (1993): Karnataka Milk Federation Limited
  2. N. Ravichandran (1993): Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation The Management of Tyre Logistics
  3. N. Ravichandran (1992): Pranarakshak Blood Bank
  4. N. Ravichandran (1992): Tamil Nadu Engines
  5. N. Ravichandran (1991): Staff Retirement Benefit Scheme : APSRTC
  6. N. Ravichandran (1990): Pallavan Refineries Ltd.
  7. N. Ravichandran (1990): Anna Road Transport Corporation
  8. N. Ravichandran (1990): KSRTC Passenger Reservation System
  9. N. Ravichandran (1988): Indian Railways
  10. N. Ravichandran (1988): Tobacco Board
  11. N. Ravichandran (1988): Hindustan Motors Limited
  12. N. Ravichandran (1986): Kalyan Engineering Corporation Ltd.
  13. N. Ravichandran (1983): Wiley Eastern Limited
Registered with IIM Ahmedabad
  1. N. Ravichandran (2008): OBC Quota in Indian Institutes of Higher Education: A Cause for Concern or an Opportunity to Lead Social Change?
  2. N. Ravichandran (2008): Simplifly Deccan: Evolution of Low Cost Carrier in India
  3. N. Ravichandran (2006): The Living Room: Redefining the Furniture Industry
  4. N. Ravichandran (2006): Gati Limited: Evolution of a Third Party Logistics Organization
  5. N. Ravichandran (2005): Mumbai Widget Limited: Supply Chain Efficiency and Improvement Initiatives
  6. N. Ravichandran (2006, IVEY, 9B06M071) Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited: Managing the Value Chain Transformation
  7. N. Ravichandran (2005): Standard Chartered and ANZ Grindlays Bank Amalgamation: Excellence in Execution
  8. N. Ravichandran (2005): Sundaram Medical Foundation: Excellence in Community Health Care Delivery
  9. N. Ravichandran (2004): Cheran Transport Corporation: Management of Maintenance Spares
  10. N.Ravichandran, Devanath Tirupati and Satyendra Kumar (2003) –
    • Optimizing Route Planning in SCL: Problem Formulation (A)
    • Optimizing Route Planning in SCL: Towards Optimal Solution (B)
    • Optimizing Route Planning in SCL: Towards an Operational Solution (C)
    • Optimizing Route Planning in SCL: From Operational Solution to Efficient Systems (D)
  11. N. Ravichandran (2003): Fairdeal Traders limited, Ahmedabad: Operational Efficiency by Economics of Scope
  12. P.K. Sinha and N.Ravichandran (2003): Cool King Division: To be or not to be in the Window Air-conditioner Business?
  13. N. Ravichandran (2003): Nadiad Kidney Hospital: Revamping Systems and Processes for Growth
  14. A.H. Kalro and N. Ravichandran (1992, Revised in 2003): Towards an Integrated Materials Management System: Christian Medical College and Hospital - Classification: Competitive Strategy
  15. N. Ravichandran (1991, revised in 2003): Hoechst India Ltd: Managing Regional Distribution - Classification: Inventory, Distribution Management
  16. N. Ravichandran (1988, Revised in 2003)): Skittles India Ltd: Competing Through Lean Logistics .- Classification: Lean Logistics System
  17. N. Ravichandran (1992, Revised in 2003): Sales Accounting System in Fairdeal Traders, Ahmedabad - Classification: Systems Analysis and Design
  18. N. Ravichandran (1999, Revised in 2003): Western India Heavy Chemicals Limited: Inbound and Outbound Logistics Planning - Classification: Logistics Management
  19. Doorva Bahuguna and N.Ravichandran (2002): Regional Passport Office: Ahmedabad Rapid Response Time by Process Redesign
  20. Vivek Golcha, Vikas Gupta and N. Ravichandran (2002): Ahmedabad Management Association: A Search for Strategic Direction
  21. S.K. Maheswari and N. Ravichandran (2002): Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd: Strategic Renewal
  22. N. Ravichandran (1996, Revised in 2002): Towards World Class In-plant Logistics: Hindustan Industries Limited
  23. A. Sridharan and N. Ravichandran (2001): Amtrex-Hitachi: Competing for the future
  24. N. Ravichandran (2001): National Seed Company: Portfolio of Computer Applications
  25. N. Ravichandran (2000): Royal Enfield Motors Limited.
  26. Ashok Korwar and N.Ravichandran (2000): State Bank of India - Towards a World Class Bank
  27. Kaushik Madhavan and N. Ravichandran (2000): Erhant + Lamier ERP Implementation
  28. N. Ravichandran (1996): Inductotherm (India) Ltd.
  29. N. Ravichandran (1996): Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Implementation at India Confectioneries Limited - A case of ERP implementation
  30. N. Ravichandran (1995): Bajaj Auto Ltd.
In Indore Management Journal
  1. Lowalekar Harshal and Ravichandran N., (2012) Managing the Outpatient Department Waiting Time at Rajas Eyes Hospital, Indore Mnagement Journal, Volume 4 Issue 1, April- June 2012 , pp-36-46.
  2. Gunta Srinivas and Ravichandran N., (2011) Infosys: Transition at the Top, Indore Management Journal, Volume 3 Issue 2, July –September 2011, pp-38-52.
  3. Desai Palsule D.Omkar and Ravichandran N., (2010) Euthanasia: Should it be Lawful or Otherwise, Indore Management Journal, Volume 2 Issue 2, July- September 2010, pp-55-65.
  4. Basu Shubhabrata and Ravichandran N., (2010) Towards the Strategic Transformation of Gujarat State Road Transport corporation, Indore Management Journal, Volume 2 Issue 1, April-June 2010, pp-42-75.
  5. Ravichandran N., (2009) Gati Limited, Indore Management Journal, Volume 1 Issue 1, April- June, 2009, pp-27-56.
Case Commentaries
  1. Ravichandran N., (2012) Employee background verification System: Implementation Challenges, Case Commentary, Indore Management Journal, Volume 3 Issue 4, January –March 2012, pp-47-49.
  2. Ravichandran N., (2011) The Career of Ram: The Warp and Weft of a personality Evolution, Case Commentary, Indore Management Journal, Volume 3 Issue 3, October-December 2011, pp-36-38.

Other Publications

Book Reviews
  1. Ravichandran N., (2010) Tiya – A Parrot’s Journey Home, Indore Management Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3, October – December 2010, pp-67-72.
  2. Ravichandran N., (2010) Gopinath G.R. (2009) Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey, Indore Management Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4, January – March 2010, pp. 118-121.
  3. Ravichandran N., (2009) An Eye for Excellence, Indore Management Journal, Volume 1, Issue 3, October – December 2009, pp-109-111.
  4. Ravichandran N., (2009) Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century, Indore Management Journal, Volume1 Issue 2, July- September 2009, pp-102-106.
Memoriam
  1. Ravichandran N., (2010) In Memoriam, Reflections on Management Contributions of Prof.C.K.Prahald, Indore Management Journal, Volume 1 Issue 4, January- March 2010, pp-1-6.
Newspaper Articles
  1. Ravichandran N., Management Education in India: Past, Present and Future. Communicated to Free Press.
  2. Ravichandran N., (2009) Avsaro se Bharpoor Rajya, Danik Bhaskar (Hindi), 4 November, 2009, Hindi.
  3. Ravichandran N., A State of opportunity for Professionals, Danik Bhaskar, 4 November, 2009, English.
Other Articles
  1. Ravichandran N., (2010) Reflections on the Evolution of IIMA as an Institution Nurturing Institutional Excellence, IIM Ahmedabad Golden Jubilee Volume.
  2. Ravichandran N., (2009) A Note on Transformational Leadership, Indore Management Association, Indore Manager Commemorative Volume, 7-8, November 2009.
  3. Ravichandran N. and Shri Vohra A.K., (2008) Management Training – The Challenge in an Evolving Economy Introductory Note, Abhivyakti The Journal of Railway staff college, Vol.19, No.2, July – December 2008, pp-2-11.

Consulting

  1. 2011 – Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround Initiatives for GSRTC
  2. 2007 - HMT - Chinar Revival Plan: A Critical Appraisal
  3. 2005 – MMTC – Vision, Mission and Objectives
  4. 2003 – Tuberculosis Control in developing countries: A Generalized Community Health Worker Based Model (funded by World Bank)
  5. 2003 – Standard Chartered and Grindlays Amalgamation.
  6. 2002 - Logistics Audit for a 30 million metric ton cement factory located in Rajasthan.
  7. 2002 - Business restructuring, strategy formulation and implementation for Thomson Press (I) Ltd, a state of art printing press in India.
  8. 2001 - Business restructuring and consulting with Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Ahmedabad.
  9. 2001- Competitive strategy and implementation for Nilkamal Industries, the largest manufacturer of plastic furniture and crates in India.
  10. 2000 - Formulation of IT strategy and its implementation for Nutrine Confectioneries Ltd.
  11. 1999 - A study on review of purchase management operations for Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Ahmedabad.
  12. 1999 – A study on distribution logistics network design for Pfizer India Ltd.
  13. 1999 – A study on computerisation plan for the Thread Division of Vardhaman Group Companies.
  14. 1998 – A study on information technology strategy formulation for Valia Chemicals, an export oriented business house.
  15. 1997 – A study on information technology strategy for Roots Industries Ltd. Coimbatore.
  16. 1996 - A study on In-plant Logistics operations of a large polymer plant in India (Reliance Industries Ltd.)
  17. 1996 – A study on distribution logistics of drugs for the revised national tuberculosis Programme sponsored by World Health Organisation, Geneva.
  18. 1993 - A study on Logistics Management for Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Limited, Ahmedabad.
  19. 1992 - A study for Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore to review and evolve a plan for their materials management computerisation.
  20. 1989 – A study on materials management computerisation plan for Cholan Roadways Corporation, a public transport utility with a fleet strength of 500.
  21. 1985 - A Simulation model for the Indian Railways to determine the capacity of routes and appropriate scheduling of trains (funded by Ministry of Railways)
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  23. CCI

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