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.

[1] Associate member IndianInstitution of Industrial Engineers (India) - Membership No. SM-10341 (99).

[2] Life Member of Global Conference onFlexible Systems Management (GLOGIFT)

[3] Member- OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA

[4] Member – Society ofOperations Management (SOMS)

[5] Member – MCDM Society

• External Examiner - Middlesex University London, 2020-2021.
• Visiting Professor of Master’s program - Neoma Business School, France, August 01-03, 2020.
• Visiting Professor, Department of International Logistics Management, Yasar University, Turkey, June 20- 26, 2019.
• Visiting Professor IIM Shillong, for teaching Business & Sustainability from September 23-26, 2019.
• Visiting Scientist, Turkish-German University, Turkey from May – November, 2019.

[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.

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 

1] Chaired a session in International conference on innovations in Business Management on 16th and 17th January, 2020, ICFAI University, Dehradun, India.

[2] Chaired as session in workshop on Circular pathways to Food Supply Chain in Turkey, sponsored under UK-Turkish project, Turkey, Oct 13, 2018.

[3] Chairing as session on Knowledge Management and Decisions in “Faculty of Business – 13th Doctoral Conference’ at June 25-26, 2018, in University of Plymouth, UK.

[4] Chaired session on “Smart Strategies for Digital World - Industrial Engineering Perspective (ICP01)” at the 58th National Convention of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and International Conference on Smart Strategies for Digital World - Industrial Engineering Perspective, hosted by the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE) at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management, Nagpur, October 22 October, 2016

[5] Chaired a session on “Operations Sustainability: An Approach towards Make in India” at the National Seminar/Workshop (DST-SERB & UCOST Sponsored) “Material and Operations Sustainability: An Approach towards Make in India” at Graphic Era University, Dehradun, August 22, 2016