Anupam's Resume

Anupam Agrawal
Fontainebleau 77300 France	www.insead.edu/phd/careers/aagrawal

EDUCATION
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2004 - 2008 (expected)	INSEAD	France
Ph.D. Technology and Operations -
2006	INSEAD	France
M.S. Management -
1992 - 1994	Indian Institute of Management	Calcutta, India
MBA Management -
1988 - 1992	Indian Institute of Technology	Kanpur, India
B. Tech Aerospace Engineering -

RESEARCH

Dissertation:
Essays on Supply Chain Efficiency - in progress
in progress

Committee: Luk Van Wassenhove(co-chair), Arnoud De Meyer (co-chair), Stephen
Chick, Kishore Sengupta

WORK IN PROGRESS

1. A. Agrawal and A.. De Meyer, Case Studies on Supply Chain Efficiency: This is an empirical work, which I have been doing for the past three years. The case studies focus on how these firms are redesigning their supply chains to get more value.

2. A. Agrawal, A. De Meyer and L.V. Wassenhove, Supplier Networks, Cooperation and Supply Chain Efficiency: This is a modeling paper, where I am using cooperative game theoretic tools to analyze the situations I have encountered in my empirical work (Paper 1 above)

3. A. Agrawal, Quality and Relationship Choice in Supply Chains: In this paper, I examine the interaction between supply chain partners from a quality perspective, and show that investment at the supplier is beneficial for the buyers in the long term, once critical thresholds are crossed.

4. A. Agrawal, S. Savin and S. Netessine, Modularity, Incentives and Contracts: In this paper, I am researching how modularity of components affects the contracting schema between buyers and their vendors.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

M. Sosa, A. Agrawal, S.D. Eppinger and C. M. Rowles,A Network Approach to Define Mod-
ularity of Product Components . Design Theory and Methodology Conference, ISETC/CIE
2005

PUBLISHED CASE STUDIES

The Moral Compass: Values-Based Leadership at Infosys , INSEAD Case Study (2006)
Available with teaching note

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

A. Agrawal, Component Modularity, Product Obsolescence and Sourcing (2007)

In this paper, I formally define and develop two measures of component modularity by linking Graph Theory and Product Architecture principles. I develop product representations as component networks that evolve from sharing of interfaces with other components in a product and link them to the external world of sourcing via the two modularity measures. The first measure, degree modularity, is related to the strength of design dependencies with adjacent components. The second measure, bridge modularity, is related to the criticality of components. These two component modularity measures are calculated and interpreted by studying the actual product architecture of two products - a small machinery product and an automobile subsystem. I then develop a sourcing framework, treating product obsolescence as a moderating variable in the effect of modularity on sourcing.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
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1997 - 2004 Senior Manager (Supply Chain)	Tata Motors	Lucknow, India
Set up and headed the Procurement function for Fully built Vehicles (FBV)business Developed new suppliers and initiated new product development for FBV Developed Bill of Material based product pricing for all vehicles, and negotiated the same with suppliers. Manager (Human Resources)2000-2001 Job Rotated and headed the Human Resources function during Lockout of Lucknow plant and subsequent opening and setting up of new team based culture at the plant (200 officers, 675 workmen) Introduced Career Planning, Succession planning, Competency based Selection and Training and 360 ◦ feedback initiatives at Tata Lucknow. Set up Industry-Academia interaction with IIT Kanpur. Assistant./ Deputy Manager (Materials Pricing)1997-2000 Developed processes and systems for Materials pricing and Supply Chain Manage- ment. Set up the Lucknow Materials Pricing department. Achieved cost savings of over Rs. 20 million by introducing data based approvals, simplified and strategic procurement. Initiated inter plant logistics simplification. Identified as firm level resource in an internal talent search (Top 25 out of 4500 officers) -
1995 - 1997 Section Manager (Sales Systems)	Procter & Gamble	Mumbai, India
Set up the P& G Bangladesh country level Distribution Systems. Worked as core team member on India Distributor Systems Project for setting up distributors all over India. Set up policies for Distributor Business Systems. -
1994 - 1995 Manager (Marketing)	ITW Signode	Secunderabad, India,
Managed Product management and Application Engineering for the Steel Packaging Group. Initiated concentrated product focus through application involvement at the cus- tomers factories resulting in increased sales opportunities with Hindalco and Ispat Industries. -

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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March-April 2007 Responsible for Tutorial Teaching	INSEAD	France
I taught 3 sessions - there were about 140 students in each tutorial session. During the tutorials, I made a presentation on main concepts covered in class, and solved problems. For my tutorials, I developed teaching material by adapting a particular situation which was being faced by a manager in one of the firms I am doing research with. I explored with students as to how this real life problem could be solved by combining the basic fundamentals of process flows and queuing. (This material is on my webpage at http://www.insead.edu/phd/careers/aagrawal/teaching.htm). -
2001 - 2002 Inhouse Faculty for Project Management	Tata Motors	Lucknow, India
I developed and delivered this course to Tata Motors executives several times. This course was popular with other firms also, and I delivered a three day session (alone) where Tata Motors had invited Planning and Manufacturing executives from firms in the nearby areas. -
2001 - 2004 Inhouse Faculty for Tata Business Excellence model	Tata Motors	Lucknow, India
I prepared and delivered the course material based on the Malcolm Baldrige Quality criteria, to a large number of Tata executives, inhouse, after getting certified as a senior Assessor. -

AWARDS AND HONORS

Merit List Holder at U.P. state Level in High School - 4th in state.

Indian National Talent Research Scholarship upto Postgraduate Level

Selected as Senior Assessor of Tata Group in 2003 from the pool of External Assessors

for the Tata Business Excellence award (Malcolm Baldrige Quality criteria). External
Assessors help other Tata Group companies in planning their business on the quality
excellence path. The Tata Group employs more than 2,50,000 people and there is a
pool of about 50 Senior Assessors.

Chosen as one of the six Fulbright Scholars from India for the Leadership in Man-

agement fellowship by Fulbright foundation (2004). Rescinded scholarship in favor of
doctoral study at INSEAD.

CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

INFORMS

MSOM

Computer Society of India

National HRD Network of India

Lucknow Management Association

Founder member of Lucknow Chapter of IIT Kanpur Alumni.

REFERENCES
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Luk Van Wassenhove, Professor INSEAD Fontainebleau France -
Arnoud De Meyer, Professor Judge Business School Cambridge UK -
Stephen Chick, Professor INSEAD Fontainebleau France -
Sergei Savin USA -

Anupam's Resume (Last updated September 30th 2007)