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Associate Professor of Supply Chain, Information Systems and Analytics

Bharat Srivastava teaches courses in Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management. His research interests include Production Planning and Scheduling, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Cellular Manufacturing, and Combinatorial Optimization.  His work has been published in several journals, such as the Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Control, Journal of Operational Research Society, Discrete Applied Mathematics, International Journal of Production Economics, and Business Horizons. Dr. Srivastava received the EMBA Excellence in Executive Education Award in 2005, 2017, and 2022.

Education

• B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India 1979
• MS Washington State University 1983; MBA Washington State University 1985
• PHD Washington State University 1992.

Courses Taught

Fall 2025 - MBA 6100 (Business Analytics) and EXBU 6560 (Business Analytics).  Spring 2026 - Sabbatical. 

Professional Affiliations

INFORMS

Professional Interests

Production Planning and Scheduling, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Technological Issues in SCM, Lean Manufacturing, and Combinatorial Optimization. 

Specialization

Business Analytics, Operations Management and Supply Chain Management 

Selected Publications

Chen, B., and Srivastava, B., "An Improved Lower Bound for the Bin Packing Problem," Discrete Applied Mathematics, 66, pp. 81-94, 1996.

Srivastava, B., "An Effective Heuristic for Minimizing Makespan on Unrelated Parallel Machines," Journal of the Operational Research Society, 49, 886-894, 1998.

Srivastava, B., "Radio Frequency ID: The Next Revolution in Supply Chain Management,鈥� Business Horizons, 47, pp. 60-68, Nov-Dec 2004.

Honors and Awards

• Excellence in Executive Education Award (2005)
• Summer Research Grant, College of Business Administration, 黑料论坛, (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000).
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, Graduate School, 黑料论坛, (1996, 1998).