Industry 4.0 and Hyper-Customized Smart Manufacturing Supply Chains

Nachiappan (Nachi) Subramanian is a Reader in Operations and Logistics Management at University of Sussex. Nachi is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK and Charted member of Institute of Logistics and Transport. Previously, Nachi worked at University of Nottingham Ningbo, China for five years and at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India for twelve years. Nachi has 17 years of academic experience and 2 years of industrial experience. He has post-doctoral research experience at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. He has received several research fellowship awards including BOYSCAST fellowship, Career award and Young Scientist fellowship award from Indian government agencies as well as Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship Award. His research works centres on novel research topics in logistics and supply chain management such as sustainability, risk and innovation and these topics are within our University priority research areas. Nachi is the principal investigator for two major research projects under the sustainable business model development theme of Innovation team project at UNNC. Nachi has published over 65 refereed research papers in leading operations and supply chain management journals. He also serves as a reviewer to many leading journals and has organised internationals conferences.