Dr Vinaya Shukla

Senior Lecturer in Management

Vinaya Shukla

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Strategy, Leadership & Operations

  • Location London

Research activities

Main research interests are in the areas of:

  • Green and sustainable supply chainmanagement 
  • Advanced technology applications such asBlockchain, Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence in supply chain management
  • Supply chain risk management 
  • Green and reverse logistics 

    • Some key recent journal publications: 

  • Chanchaichujit, J., Balasubramanian, S.,and Shukla, V. (2024), “Barriers to Industry 4.0 technology adoption inagricultural supply chains: A Fuzzy Delphi-ISM approach”, InternationalJournal of Quality and Reliability Management   https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-07-2023-0222
  •  Balasubramanian,S., Shukla, V., Islam, N., Upadhyay, A., and Duong, L. (2023), “Applyingartificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic”,International Journal of Production Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2023.2263102
  • Habib, M. H., Balasubramanian, S., Shukla, V., Chitakunye, D. and Chanchaichujit, J.(2022), “Practices and performance outcomes of green supply chain managementinitiatives in the garment industry”, Management of EnvironmentalQuality, 33 (4), pp. 882-912.
  • Balasubramanian, S., Shukla, V., Islam,N., and Manghat, S. (2021), "Construction Industry 4.0 andSustainability: An Enabling Framework”, IEEE Transactions onEngineering Management, 71, pp. 1-19, DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2021.3110427
  • Balasubramanian,S., Shukla, V., Sethi, J, S., Islam, N., and Saloum, R. (2021), " Areadiness assessment framework for Blockchain adoption: A healthcare case study",Technological Forecasting and Social Change https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120536
  • Balasubramanian, S., Shukla, V., Mangla, S. andChanchaichujit, J. (2021), " Dofirm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literaturereview‐based assessment",Business Strategy and the Environment, 30, pp. 1389-1416, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2692

    • Some key recent practitioner articles where workquoted: 

  • Hayes, M. (2022)“Construction 4.0 key to sustainability” Available at: https://www.construction-europe.com/news/construction-4.0-key-to-sustainability/8017935.article
  • Balasubramaniam, S. and Shukla, V. (2023) “Understanding the climate changeimpact on UAE’s construction industry”, https://www.constructionweekonline.com/,Available at: https://www.constructionweekonline.com/business/insights/understanding-the-climate-change-impact-of-uaes-construction-industry
  • Balasubramaniam,S. and Shukla, V. (2023) “Understanding the climate change impact on UAE’sconstruction industry”, https://www.constructionweekonline.com/,Available at: https://www.constructionweekonline.com/business/insights/understanding-the-climate-change-impact-of-uaes-construction-industry

    • Some key recent book chapters:

  • Balasubramanian, S, V.Shukla, A. Kavanancheeri, L. (2023) “ImprovingSupply Chain Sustainability using Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from theManufacturing Sector” in the Book: Industry 4.0 Technologies: SustainableManufacturing Supply Chains:  Volume II -Methods for transition and trends (Editors: Vimal K E K, Sonu Rajak, VikasKumar, Rahul S Mor and Almoayied Assayed), Springer 
  • Shukla,V., A. Upadhyay and B. Khandve. (2020) “Applicationsof Green Supply Chain Management in the UK Restaurant industry” in theBook: Sustainable Supply Chains: Strategies, Issues, and Models (Editors: Prof.Usha Ramanathan and Prof. Ramakrishnan Ramanathan), Springer
  • Balasubramanian, S, V. Shukla,A. Upadhyay, M. Gharehdash, and M. Gharehdash. (2020)“Supply Chain Network designmodels for a circular economy: A Review and a case study assessment” in theBook: Circular Economy for the Management of Operations (Editors: Anil Kumar,Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes and Syed Abdul Rehman Khan), CRC Press (Taylor &Francis Group)


    • Current Teaching

    Vinaya currently teaches on the following modules and programmes:

  • Programme Leader for the MSc in GlobalSupply Chain Management
  • Module Leader MGT4803 Operations and SupplyChain Management
  • Module Leader MGT4641 Operations and SupplyChain Management#
  • Module Leader MGT4643 Procurement
  • Module Leader MGT3012 Logistics
  • Module Leader MGT2011 Operations andInformation Management

    • Current Postgraduate (PhD) Supervision:

    - Adwoa Owusu-Nimoh, 'Industry 4.0 and Agri-food supply chains',Director of Studies,  September 2020 - present 

    - Rory McConnon, 'Sustainability of Vertical Food Systems',Director of Studies, January 2022 - present

    - Golshan Ahmadi, 'Improving circularity of agri-foodthrough Artificial Intelligence',      Director of Studies,September 2023 - present

    - Mahnoush Gharehdash, 'Supply chain resilience throughArtificial Intelligence', Director of Studies, September 2023 - present


    Biography

    Vinaya joined the university in 2010 after completing his PhD atCardiff Business School. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Strategy,Leadership and Operations Department and also the Programme Leader for theMasters in Global Supply Chain Management programme. He is an active researcherin the areas of sustainable supply chain management, technology applications(such as Industry 4.0, Blockchain, Data analytics and artificial intelligence)in supply chain management including for sustainability, supply chain riskmanagement and supply chain systems supervising and examining PhDs, andpublishing in prestigious journals in these areas. Vinaya is also an ExternalExaminer for the postgraduate Operations and Supply Chain Management modulesand programmes at Kingston and Greenwich universities.  

    Earlier, he was the Programme Leader for the MBA programme andalso the Link Tutor for the MBA franchise to Niels Brock Copenhagen BusinessCollege. He has also worked for several years as a Management Consultant onsupply chain management and operations performance improvementprojects. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from IIT Kanpur,Masters in Operations Research from Lancaster University, MBA from S.P JainInstitute of Management and Research and PhD from Cardiff BusinessSchool. 

    Vinaya is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logisticsand Transport (CILT), the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), theCouncil of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), and the Higher EducationAcademy.

    External activities

  • External Reviewer for the BSc Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics programme, University of Buraimi, Oman, 2023
  • Book proposal on Managing Global supply chains, Routledge, 2022
  • External Examiner for postgraduate Operations and Supply Chain Management modules, University of Greenwich, 2021
  • External Reviewer for the BSc Logistics with Supply Chain Management programme, Muscat University, Oman, 2021
  • External Examiner for postgraduate Operations and Supply Chain Management modules, Kingston University, 2020
  • Book proposal on Sustainable Supply Chains and Logistics, Macmillan Education | Palgrave, 2020

    • Publications

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