Smart Supply Chains 3.0: Build, Manage and Upgrade
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The books is not a theoretical treatment with too much of a jargon-centric focus, but it does a good deal of substantiating what is normally taught in theory, with a quick-to-adopt perspective. Thus, important modern day concepts are introduced using a method and style that is casual and simple, but to the point, making it easy to comprehend for the new age reader. It is practice oriented and consultative, allowing a flexible and a learning approach rather than a prescriptive one. Thus, one could read it easily, even without any prior knowledge of the subject. It thus, caters to both beginners as well as professionals alike.
Most importantly, it helps the reader experience how expertise brings in rigor when it works in practical situations, thereby taking the reader to effortlessly go in depth, when needed. We cover and learn a lot of new age technologies throughout the book. And these are further made interesting through several real life applications in the form of case studies that help the reader comprehend the dynamics and learn intensly complex concepts from a practice perspective.
The book helps one prepare oneself for the next move: be it entering the supply chain family of professions, or taking up senior roles within organizations. Therefore, it provides a sound understand about cutting edge methods including the state of the art modeling and simulation approaches that are used in supply chain management today.
Lastly, it gives a sound perspective and a clear understanding about supply chain disruptions using new technologies like Industry 5.0, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, BlockChains and Analytics. Therefore, this is a must read in the current times.
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Nikhil S. Gurjar is the President of Consulting Connoisseurs and is also a pioneer in the Modeling and Simulations based Management Consulting practise in India. He is also the President of ProMaCert Solutions, a company offering a visionary certification program on Project Management that is jointly offered with AIBigData Technologies, Canada.
N. S. Gurjar is a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, a gold medallist MBA from NITIE, Bombay and a first class Master's
level Degree Holder in Intellectual Property Law from WIPO, Geneva and UniSA, Pretoria. His academic honors include the prestigious NCERT
National Talent Search Scholarship and the All India Universal Science Talent Search Award, the first prize in the Godrej sponsored All
India Business Plan Competition, the Chairman's Best Student Award and the Director's Best Project Award at NITIE.
Mr. Gurjar is a pioneer in the field of modeling and simulation-based management consulting in India and has also worked in several
sectors including steel, specialty materials, oil, white goods, consumer goods, education, IT, robotics technology, government and
textiles. His functional expertise span across the areas of management consulting, project management, sales, operations and Information
Systems and IT. His earlier association has been with top industries like ThyssenKrupp, Oracle, Siemens, Indian Oil, Electrolux and IIT.
His experience has spanned across the geographies of the United States, Europe (including Germany, France, Netherlands and Italy) and
India. He is also, therefore, fluent in six languages.
Mr. Gurjar was an empaneled consultant at the National Productivity Council of India for Lean Management under the MSME Scheme. He was
also in the expert committee of DST for the National Spatial Database Infrastructure. He is also known for his innovative models for
Public Private Partnerships, contracting and government policy development. Therefore, in addition to corporates, he has done extensive
consulting work in the government and non-profit sector as well. His clients include blue-chip companies of the country and he also supports SMEs through various initiatives.
His passion for development has seen him develop programs for CII and also the Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK. In
addition he has also conducted several development activities for agencies like IIT, VIT, PPMAI, etc. in various areas and each of his
programs have received overwhelming response. Mr. Gurjar has also been a guest faculty teaching Project Management and Supply Chain
Management at NITIE, a leading B-School in India. He is also associated visiting faculty at
SP Jain School of Global Management, NL Dalmia, NL Dalmia - Virginia Tech Program, Northeastern Illinois University - Jaro Program, etc. He has also launched three certification programs on
Project Management for Students, Industry Practitioners and Public Sector Project Professionals. Mr. Gurjar is on the Academic Review Committees and the Board of Studies of several institutes like SVKM Narsee Monjee, Vidyalankar Institute, Guru Nanak College, etc. He is an industry mentor for many colleges.
Mr. Gurjar has published over 15 international papers in several areas including Strategy Management, Business Process Re-engineering,
Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Law and Education. Much of his work has been interdisciplinary and go on to demonstrate
his extensive skills in diverse areas and techniques. They also explain the innovative approaches that were used to solve business issues
across a variety of clients. Some of his papers are part of the MBA curriculum in colleges around the world. He has also published several
articles in magazines and newsletters for different fora. He has also released a book titled `A Forward Looking Approach to Project Management' through Springer in August, 2016. The book has sold around 30,000 downloads till date.
In his free time, he is busy working on his third book on Applied HR, preparing plans for traveling or meeting people. An active member of Rotary
International, Mr. Gurjar was the co-Director for Mumbai Revenue District 3141 for Road Safety Projects under the District Thrust Areas. He was also nominated as the co-Director for Mumbai Revenue District 3141 for Rotary Service Projects called Rotary Seva Abhiyan; again a thrust area under the
District managed by the Governor. He is in the District 3141 avenue for Positive Health in the upcoming year. He has also handled the magazine portfolio at the Rotary Club of Bombay Powai and won the Best Rotarian Award as well. He has also
been a Vocational Director and the Director Memberships at the Club.
Mr. Gurjar is also associated with MACCIA, the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, an apex chamber of Maharashtra state. He was a Governing Council Member, the Chairman of the Business Networking
Committee and the co-Chairman of the Coastal Shipping Committee as well as the IT Committee. He also supports other committees at MACCIA like the Education and Skills Committee and the Young Entrepreneur Committee. He is the architect of the famous i-PRO Program that was used to orient students and faculty members across Maharashtra state last academic year. Around 10,000 students were trained in the initiative.
Mr. Gurjar often comes on television channels as a speaker and has a good fan-following on his programs and talks. He has been invited for live interviews on DD Sahyadri, ABP Majha, IBN Lokmat, etc.