Dr Ram Roy

Ram Roy (2)

Senior Lecturer

Email

rroy@eit.ac.nz

Areas of Teaching

Advanced Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Designing and Improv

Qualifications

PhD in Supply Chain Management, M. Tech., B. Eng., PG Dip. in Business Administration, MPOMS(USA), MCILT(NZ)

Phone

06 974 8000

Extension

5228

Bio

First of all Namaste, Hello and Kia Ora to all the stakeholders in my academic activities. It’s very hard for me to write a biography as I have never done it before. All I can say is that I have gone wherever my academic dreams have taken me to and in that process I have traveled and worked in places like: Middle East, Horn of Africa, India, and now New Zealand. Just before my departure from India, my father was a little worried about me when I showed him the map of New Zealand with lots of water all around. He knew I wasn’t a good swimmer, but after coming here I assured him that there are lots of places for aircraft to land safely and I won’t mind getting lost here as New Zealand is beautiful in any direction.

I have about 20 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and graduate levels in various institutes. I have taught and conducted research in the domain of supply chain and logistics management at graduate level. Some of the other subjects are: production operations management (inventory models, JIT, MRP, MRP-II, CAPP, OPT, forecasting, supply chain logistics, shortest path algorithms, etc), operations research, decision sciences, and TQM.
As part of my management studies programme at University of Canterbury, I worked on a variety of short-and long-term projects related to New Zealand organizations such as: Woosh Wireless, Aotea Electric, Fonterra, and Winstone Wallboards Ltd.

Based on my long years of varied experiences, I am sure I will be able to contribute to the teaching/learning and consultancy process of EIT.

Research outputs 2010

Roy, R. (2010, May). Effectiveness of innovative technologies in New Zealand farming and supply chain management: A tale of two companies. Paper presented at POM 2010: 21st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Vancouver, Canada. Available from http://www.pomsmeetings.org/ConfProceedings/015/FullPapers/Fullpaper.htm

Roy, R. N., & Cordery, N. (2010). Comparing and improving value chain-supply chain in the three most important wine regions of New Zealand. International Journal of Value Chain Management, 4(3), 288-303. doi: 10.1504/IJVCM.2010.033617

Research outputs 2009

Wilson, M. M. J., & Roy, R. N. (2009). Enabling lean procurement: A consolidation model for small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 20(6), 817-833.

Research outputs 2008

Roy, R., & Cordery, N. (2008). Comparing and improving some aspects of value chain-supply chain in the three most important wine producing regions of New Zealand. In A. N. Haq, T. Selvaraj, P. Asokan & S. Kumaran (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (pp. 35-43). Chennai: Macmillan India.

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