The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Sachin's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Sachin

Dr Sachin K Mangla. He is working as a Faculty of Knowledge Management and Business Decision Making, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. 

His research is in the field of Green and Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations; Industry 4.0; Circular Economy; Decision Making and Modelling. 

He has a teaching experience of more than five years in Supply Chain and Operations Management and Decision Making, and currently associated in teaching with various universities in UK, Turkey, India, China, France, etc. 

He has published/presented several papers in repute international/national journals (International Journal of Production Economics; International Journal of Production Research; Production Planning and Control; Business Strategy and the Environment; Journal of Cleaner Production; Annals of Operations Research; Transportation Research Part – D etc.

He is involved in editing couple of Special issues as a Guest Editor in Production Planning & Control, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Resource Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production etc. 

Currently, he is also involved in several research projects on various issues and applications of Circular economy and Sustainability. Among them, he is responsible for knowledge based decision model in "Enhancing and implementing knowledge based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)", European Commission RISE scheme, €1.3M. Recently, he has also received a grant as a PI from British Council - Newton Fund Research Environment Links Turkey/UK - Circular and Industry 4.0 driven sustainable solutions for reducing food waste in supply chains in Turkey. He is also working with USERC (Uttarakhand Science Education & Research Centre), Govt of Uttarakhand, India for managing food waste in Circular Economy. He is also a professional member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineers (India); OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA; Society of Operations Management (SOMS); Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Society; System Dynamics Society, UK.

Supervised Research Degrees

[1] Ph.D. Guidance= 08 (Ongoing/Awarded) [First/Second Supervisor] with IIT Roorkee, IIM Raipur and Graphic Era University, India, Munich University, Germany, University of Plymouth, UK

i) Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management – Mr. Yogesh Kumar Sharma  – Awarded.

ii) Sustainable Consumption and Production Management – Miss Surbhi Uniyal - Ongoing from July, 2016 and expected to complete by June 2019.

iii) E-mobility in India – Ms. Anja Barucha (Munich University) – Ongoing from September 2018.

iv) Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability – Piotr Warmbier (Munich University) - Ongoing from September 2018.

v) Closed Loop Supply Chain Management – Xiaoyi Zhan (University of Plymouth) – Ongoing from April, 2019.

vi) Perishable Food Supply Chain Management – Anish Kumar (IIT, Roorkee) – Ongoing from January 2018.

viii) Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy for Sustainable Supply Chains – Mr Akshay (IIM Raipur) Awarded.

Teaching

Global Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Knowledge Management & Decision Making, Operations Strategy and Management, Circular Manufacturing System, Supply Chain Innovations & Sustainability, Quality issues and Lean Management 

Contact Sachin

+44 1752 585790
sachin.kumar@plymouth.ac.uk