Murali Sambasivan

Murali Sambasivan
Phone : 603-89467698, E-Mail: murali@econ.upm.edu.my
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Research Interests : Operations Management, Applications of Operations Research and Statistics, Supply Chain Management
Teaching Interests : Operations Management, Operations Research, Business Statistics, Supply Chain Management, Quantitative Techniques, Decision Analysis


Education:
• Doctor of Philosophy (Management Science), Aug 1994, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

• Post-Graduate (MS) in Industrial Engineering, June 1985, National Institute for Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Bombay, India

• Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), June 1983, Madras University, India
Specialization: Production Engineering
• CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management)– A Professional certification given by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society), USA
Teaching Experience:
Contract Lecturer – May 1999 – present, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Part-time Faculty – August 1994 to March 1999, S.P. Jain Institute of Management Studies and Research, Bombay, India


Courses taught at UPM:

GSM 5167 Business Statistics – PhDs, Masters
MGM 3162 Business Statistics – undergraduates (full-time and Executive)
MGM 3161 Quantitative Techniques – undergraduates (full-time and Executive)
GSM 5116 Operations Management – MSc (Plantation Management)
GSM 5114 Decision Analysis – MBAs (full-time and part-time)
Some Recent Teaching Evaluation Results: MGM 3162 – 4.7/5, MGM 3161 – 4.6/5


Corporate Work Experience (USA and India)


Research Associate, Alabama Productivity Center (APC), University of Alabama, USA
Aug 1990-June 1994
General Manager (Group Strategic Planning), RPG Enterprises, Bombay, India, Jan 1997-May 1999.
Manager (Industrial Engineering), DHL Worldwide Express, Bombay, India, June 1995-Dec 1996.
Software Developer, Baan Info Systems, Bombay, India, Nov 1994-June 1995
Executive, Management Services, Deepak Nitrite Ltd, Bombay, India, Jan 1990-Jun 1990
Software Developer, Patni Computer Systems, Bombay, India, Jan 1988-Jan 1990
Industrial Engineer, Premier Automobiles Ltd, Bombay, India, July 1985-Jan 1988


Research Experience:
International Journals:
(1) A Heuristic procedure for solving multi-plant, multi-item, multi-period capacitated lot-sizing problem – Murali Sambasivan and Charles. P. Schmidt
Journal: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 19, 2002, 87-105
Murali Sambasivan
International Journals (continued)
(2) A Lagrangean-based heuristic procedure for solving multi-plant, multi-item, multi-period capacitated lot-sizing problem with inter-plant transfers – Murali Sambasivan and Salleh Yahya
Journal: Computers and Operations Research (Accepted for publication, Available online from October 2, 2003)
(3) The Influence Of Corporate Culture And Organisational Commitment On Performance — Md Zabid Rashid, Murali Sambasivan and Juliana Johari
Journal: Journal of Management Development, 22(8), 2003, 708-728
(4) The influence of organizational culture on attitudes toward organizational change -- Md Zabid Rashid, Murali Sambasivan and Azmawani bte Abdul Rahman
Journal: Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 25(2), 2004, 161-179
(5) An empirical examination of relationship between Supply Chain Learning, SCM Process Knowledge, and Organization Performance -- Murali Sambasivan, Loke Siew Phaik, Salleh Yahya, and Zainal Abidin Mohamed
Journal: International Journal of Production and Operations Management (already submitted)
(6) A GA-based algorithm for solving multi-plant capacitated lot-sizing problem with inter-plant transfers – Murali Sambasivan and Charles P. Schmidt
Journal: IIE Transactions (under submission)


Local Journals:
(1) Optimal teller windows in banking industry – Salleh Yahya, Murali Sambasivan, Seow Hsin Voon
Journal: Banker’s Journal Malaysia, 116, 2000, 29-34
(2) Impact of Supply Chain Practices on Competitive Position of a company: A study on MNCs in Malaysia – Murali Sambasivan and Jacob George
Journal: Pertanika Journal of social science & humanities (already submitted)

Books/Study Guides:
(1) Statistics for Management – Murali Sambasivan and Choo Wei Chong, 2002, Prentice Hall
(2) Decision Analysis – Murali Sambasivan and Salleh Yahya, 2002, Prentice Hall
(3) Business Statistics – Choo Wei Chong, Goh Poi Leng, and Murali Sambasivan, 2002, Prentice Hall
(4) Contemporary Issues in Economics – Compiled by Samsinar Md Sidin, Murali Sambasivan and others, 2003, Prentice Hall (Based on papers submitted for FEP Seminar, 2003)
(5) Contemporary Issues in Business – Compiled by Samsinar Md Sidin, Murali Sambasivan and others, 2003, Prentice Hall (Based on papers submitted for FEP Seminar, 2003)


Conference Proceedings (excluding the Faculty seminar)
(1) A Lagrangean-based heuristic procedure for solving multi-plant, multi-item, multi-period capacitated lot-sizing problem with inter-plant transfers – Murali Sambasivan and Salleh Yahya -- Asia Pacific Conference on Economics and Management held at Kucing between Oct 2 and Oct 5, 2002.
(2) The Roles of Market competition and AMT in predicting MACS change -- Che Ruhana Isa, Foong Soon Yau, and Murali Sambasivan -- IX Asia Pacific Management Conference at Osaka, Nov 19-21, 2003
Refereeing Experience in an International Journal:
Referee to Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research
Supervision/Co-Supervision Experience:
Master’s and PhD Students – 10

Research Awards:
Silver Medal in the Research Exhibition, 2002 for the project entitled: Genetic algorithm (GA) based heuristic approach to solve capacitated multi-plant, multi-item, and multi-period production and distribution planning problems with inter-plant transfers
Bronze Medal in the Research Exhibition, 2003 for the project entitled: The Relationship between work values, organizational commitment and Job Performance amongst Executives