Sunil Chopra
is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has served as the interim dean, deputy dean and senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching, and the codirector of the MMM program, a joint dual-degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Kellogg, he taught at New York University and spent a year at IBM Research.

Professor Chopras research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management, operations management, combinatorial optimization and the design of telecommunication networks. He has won several teaching awards at the MBA and Executive programs of Kellogg. He has authored more than 50 papers and two books.

He has been a department editor for
Management Science
and an associate editor for
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
,
Operations Research
and
Decision Sciences Journal
. He has also consulted several firms in supply chain and operations management.

1. Understanding the Supply Chain
2. Achieving Strategic Fit in a Supply Chain
3. Supply Chain Drivers and Financial Performance

1. Network Design in the Supply Chain
2. Building and Evaluating Optionality in Global Supply Chain Networks

1. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
2. Planning Supply in a Supply Chain: Aggregate Planning
3. Sales and Operations Planning in a Supply Chain
4. Coordination in a Supply Chain

1. Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
2. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
3. Growing Supply Chain Profits Using Product Availability

1. Transportation in a Supply Chain

1. Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
2. Information Technology in a Supply Chain
3. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
4. Sustainability and the Supply Chain
5. Segmentation and Tailoring of Supply Chains
6. Building Resilience to Disruption in Supply Chains