Ravishankar, G 'Ravi'

Research

research overview

Prof. Gurumurthi Ravishankar is a teaching assistant professor and the faculty director of the MS Supply Chain program at the Leeds School of Business. His research and expertise centers on operations management, technology transfer, and supply chain management.

keywords

Lean manufacturing, THC and alcohol sensing, Technology transfer, supply chain, logistics

Teaching

courses taught

BASE 2104 - BCOR Applied Semester Experience
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020
Focuses on major business decisions integrating across business functional areas. Students complete multiple business projects drawing on knowledge and tools from previous BCOR courses.
BCOR 2206 - Principles of Operations Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Introduces the student to the common activities performed by an operations manager and sets the stage for the student to operate as a member of a cross-functional team responsible for adding value for the customer. These common activities include planning and designing goods and services, sourcing materials and supplies, producing the goods and delivering the services, and dealing with product end-of-life requirements. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2500, BASE 2101.
EMEN 4110 - Supply Chain Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Explores the key issues related to the design and management of supply chains. Covers the efficient integration of suppliers, production facilities, warehouses, and stores so that the right products in the right quantity reach customers at the right time. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chair cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries. Same as MGMT 4110.
EMEN 5500 - Lean and Agile Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Learn lean and agile concepts and tools to improve customer value, improve processes and reduce waste. Examine and apply lean and agile principles in diverse circumstances including hardware/software, product development/ongoing operations and manufacturing products/providing services. Apply your learning to improving performance in current responsibilities, whether as an individual contributor or as a manager. Degree credit not granted for this course and OPIM 6080.
MBAC 6030 - Quantitative Methods
Primary Instructor - Summer 2019
Covers foundations for statistical reasoning and statistical applications in business. Topics include graduate-level treatment of descriptive statistics,probability, probability distributions, sampling theory and sampling distributions, and statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing). Provides an introduction to regression analysis, analysis of variance, time series forecasting, decision analysis, index numbers, and nonparametric methods.

MBAX 6801 - Global Perspectives Seminar
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Provides students with an in-depth perspective about a specific country or region outside the United States. The course can focus on a different region or country each time it is offered. If demand for this type of experience is strong, multiple sections of the course could be offered in a given semester. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

MBAX 6806 - Global Perspectives
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Contrasting operations in US and a country or region outside the United States, students will study what changes US companies have made to successfully operate in foreign markets and how US companies have influenced foreign business operations. Reviews the history and present state of the inter-dependency between the domestic and international business environments. Culminates in a week-long trip to the country/region of study. Provides students with an in-depth perspective about a specific country or region outside the United States. The course can focus on a different region or country each time it is offered. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

MGMT 3100 - Operations Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Spring 2023
Examines concepts, tools and techniques used in the management of service operations. Focuses on how firms add value and compete with high quality and efficient services. Emphasizes the use of models for designing new products services and improving the effectiveness of service processes. Studies the application of technology in the context of productivity, growth and the globalization of manufacturing and services.

MGMT 4110 - Supply Chain Management
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Explores the key issues related to the design and management of supply chains. Covers the efficient integration of suppliers, production facilities, warehouses, and stores so that the right products in the right quantity reach customers at the right time. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chair cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries. Same as EMEN 4110.

MSBC 5480 - SCMN Experiential Projects
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Provides an opportunity to execute a project for a company, integrating course work knowledge in an applied capstone experience. Allows first hand exposure to the business analytics as both an observer and creator of the business analytics process. Students work closely with an area client company to solve an important business analytics problem under the close supervision of the instructor.

MSBX 5435 - Planning and Production
Primary Instructor - Spring 2024
At the core of GDP and productivity is the science of planning new products of services in design, bringing them to market then producing and replicating it in reliable, dependable, scalable fashion. The course takes an in-depth look at the mechanisms for supporting new product/process design in a scaled, often world-wide supply chain. (MRP, Six Sigma, Modeling Software, Heuristic Model use).

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