Biography

Prof. B V N Sachendra has about 26 years of work experience including corporate and academics. While working as Engineer (Purchase), he was responsible for Vendor Development, Supplier Selection, Material Procurement and Follow up. He has developed several case studies, textbooks and workbooks in the area of Operations Management. He has taught courses on Operations Management, Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, Project Management in Business Schools of repute. Besides, he is also proactive in developing, designing and delivering Executive Development Programs and Management Development Programs. He has conducted about 300 training programmes and trained more than 6000 middle and senior level officers / executives from Government, Public and Private Sector Units in functional areas like Materials and Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management, Logistics Management, Project and Contract Management, Procurement Procedures for World Bank Aided Projects, Public Procurement Principles & GeM and Productivity Management. He has ten papers to his credit, out of which four were presented at the international level.

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