Total Quality Management (TQM) (ePub)

national journals. He acted as an editor/reviewer in international journals/conferences and short-term training programmed. He delivered many expert lecturers and participated in panel discussions. His specific areas of interest are operations and quality management, just-in-time, (JIT), production planning and control, manufacturing processes, supply chain management, educational planning, industrial engineering, productivity, entrepreneurship and green supply chain management, etc.

Dr. Ashish Agarwal has been working as Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering at School of Engineering & Technology Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi India since 1993. He has earned his PhD from IIT Delhi in the area of Supply Chain Management. His papers have been published in International and National Journals. He has published his research papers in European Journal of Operational Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Work Study, International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, International Journal Intelligent Enterprise, Production & Manufacturing Research, International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, Competitiveness Review, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Productivity, Industrial Engineering Journal and Global Journal of Enterprise Information System. He is reviewer in International and National Journals. He has supervised nine PhD students in the area of Operations Management. He is at present supervising five PhD students. He is life member of Indian Society for Technical Education and Indian Institutions of Industrial Engineering.

Dr Sachin Mangla Kumar is working as a Faculty of Knowledge Management and Business Decision Making, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Dr Sachin is working in the field of Green and Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations; Industry 4.0; Circular Economy; Decision Making and Modelling. He is committed to do and promote high quality research. 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; Transportation Research Part - E; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews; Resource Conservation and Recycling; Information System Frontier; Management Decision; International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications; Benchmarking an International Journal; Industrial Data and Management System; International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management) and conferences (POMS, SOMS, IIIE, CILT - LRN, GLOGIFT). He has an h-index 28 and i10-index 55. He is involved in editing couple of Special issues as a Guest Editor in leading ABDC/ABD high ranked journals. 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. 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.