Amitabh S. Raturi, PhD, MBA
Professor and SAP Research Fellow

Amitabh S. Raturi, PhD, MBAProf. Raturi's research interests are in the area of manufacturing planning and scheduling and operations strategy. His work experience includes engineering and purchasing. He has published over 30 papers in Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Production and Operations management Society, IIE Transactions,European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Omega, Journal of Operations Research Society, Interfaces and others. He has co-authored a book, Principles of Operations Management. He is also the author and architect of Pathways for Continuous Improvement, an intensive workshop for small manufacturing firms developed and offered at the Navy Centers for Excellence by the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences and the Department of the Navy. Prof. Raturi has consulted with over 30 manufacturing firms in areas such as lean manufacturing, operations strategy and ERP implementation.

Contact Information
E-mail: amit.raturi@uc.edu Phone: (513) 556-7192
Office/Address: 530 Carl H. Lindner Hall
PO Box 210130
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0130
Fax: (513) 556-5499
 
 
Areas of Expertise
General Expertise: Quantitative Analysis
Specific Expertise: Decision Modeling, Operations Management, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management
Research Interests: Operations strategy
Operations Planning and ERP
Teaching Interests: Operations Management
Operations Strategy
Project Management
Publications
  • Retail Price Markup Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains, with Y. Liu and Mike Fry, European Journal of Operations Research, 192:1, 277-292, 2009.
  • Lessons learned from methodological triangulation in management research, EP Jack, AS Raturi, Management Research News, 2006
  • Vertically Restrictive Pricing in Supply Chains with Price Dependent Demand, with Y. Liu and A. Raturi, Naval Research Logistics, 53:6, 485-501, 2006
  • On the trade-offs between risk-pooling and logistics costs in a multi-plant network with commonality, SS Kulkarni, MJ Magazine, AS Raturi - IIE Transactions, 2005
  • Risk Pooling Advantages of Manufacturing Network Configuration, POMS Journal, Volume: 13 | Issue: 2, Page(s): 186-199, 2004
  • Creating a volume-flexible firm AS Raturi, EP Jack - Business Horizons, 2004
  • Testing the relationship between team and partner characteristics and cooperative benchmarking outcomes Ramabadran, R. Dean, J.W., Jr. Evans, J.R. Raturi, A.S, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Volume: 51, Issue: 2 On page(s): 208- 225, 2004
  • Measuring and Comparing Volume Flexibility In the Capital Goods Industry, POMS Journal 2003.
  • On incorporating business risk into continuous review inventory models, European Journal of Operational Research. Volume 75 Issue 1, Pages: 136-150, 2004
  • Sources of volume flexibility and their impact on performance, Journal of Operations Management, 2002, Vol 20, Iss 5, pp 519-548
  • Capacity-constrained reorder intervals for materials requirements planning systems IIE Transactions, 1997, Vol 29, Iss 11, pp 951-963
  • The Customization responsiveness Squeeze, Sloan management Review, 1994, Vol 35, Iss 2, pp 89-99
  • Effect of process learning on manufacturing schedules E Pratsini, JD Camm, AS Ratur - Computers and Operations Research, 1993
  • Capacitated lot sizing under setup learning E Pratsini, JD Camm, AS Raturi - European Journal of Operational Research, 1994
  • A comparison of tool management strategies and part selection rules for a flexible manufacturing system, International journal of production research, 1992, vol. 30, no4, pp. 733-748
  • A Model for Determining Tactical Parameters for Materials Requirements Planning Systems, Journal of Operational Research Society, 1 June 1992, Volume 43, Number 6, Pages 605-620
  • The effect of inventory decisions and parameters on the opportunity cost of capital VR Singhal, AS Raturi - Journal of Operations Management, 1990
  • Estimating the opportunity cost of capital for inventory investment S Raturi, V Singhal, Omega, 1990
  • Coping with the Build to Forecast Environment, Journal of Operations Management, Vol 9 No 2, 1990.
  • Alternative Research Paradigms in Operations (with Meredith, Kaplan, Gyampah), Journal of Operations Management, Vol 8 No 4, 1989.
  • Cutting Big M Down to Size Jeffrey D. Camm, Amitabh S. Raturi, Shigeru Tsubakitani , Interfaces, Vol. 20, No. 5, September-October 1990, pp. 61-66
  • Confidence interval for the total advertising impact and its mean duration under Koyck models JM McCann, RC Morey, AS Raturi - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 1991
  • An Experimental Analysis of Capacity Sensitive Lotsizing Procedures for MRP Systems (with Hill), Decision Sciences, Vol 19 No 4, Fall 1988
  • Heuristic part selection procedures for flexible manufacturing systems AS Raturi, J Meredith, M Vineyard - Recent Developments in Production Research, Elsevier, 1988
  • Incorporating the effects of setups in lotsizing procedures AS Raturi - Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 1989
Affiliations
  • DSI
  • INFORMS
  • APICS
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