Digital twins' readiness and its impacts on supply chain transparency and sustainable performance

Anchal Patil is a scholar in the field of Operations and Supply Chain. He has a PhD from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. His research interests include the applications of simulation, optimization, and MCDM methods to improve supply chain performance. His PhD focuses on the performance improvement of disaster relief operations. Anchal has published several research papers related to transportation and humanitarian work in reputed journals, including the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, the International Journal of Logistic Management, and Computer and Industrial Engineering. He has also reviewed manuscripts from several reputed journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production and Computers and Industrial Engineering. Earlier, he was working as an assistant professor in the area of Lean Operations and Systems at CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India. Anchal has also worked with Genpact Pvt. Ltd. He holds degrees of M. Tech from IIT Delhi and B. Tech from NIT Kurukshetra in Industrial Engineering.

Shefali Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. Her research interests mainly include sustainability, circularity, servitization, value co-creation, and quality management. She completed her Post at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 2022 in the field of circular supply chains. She obtained her PhD in Service Operations Management from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, in 2019. She has published several research papers in eminent SCOPUS and ABDC, ABS-indexed journals like Journal of Cleaner Production, Benchmarking- An International Journal, TQM Journal, International Journal of Healthcare Management, etc. She has also received “HIGHLY COMMENDABLE PAPER - LITERATI AWARDS-2020” by EMERALD Publishers in 2020. She is also included in the p-ranking list of the top 500 researchers in the South Asian Region in the field of business and management.

Sanjoy Kumar Paul is an Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia. He has published more than 130 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Production Economics, Business Strategy and the Environment, Computers and Operations Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Management in Engineering, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and so on. He is also an editor and active reviewer of many reputed journals. His research interests include supply chain risk management, sustainability, and applied operations research. Dr Paul has received several recognitions and awards in his career, including the top 2% of scientists in author databases of standardized citation indicators since 2020, the Research with Relevance Award, the ASOR Rising Star Award, Excellence in Early Career Research Award, the Stephen Fester prize for most outstanding thesis, and high-impact publications award for publishing articles in top-tier journals.

Ashish Dwivedi is a professor of operations management and decision sciences at Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University), Sonipat. He holds a doctorate (PhD) from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He holds an MTech degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India. He is an engineering graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has received the second prize in the Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Researcher Award 2022 based on the count of ABDC A/ABDC A*/ABS 4-level publications over five years. His research has been published in various journals of international repute, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, Business Strategy and the Environment, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, International Journal of Disaster Risk and Reduction, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and so forth. He has also presented his research works at various international conferences held in the US, Italy, Maldives, and Dubai.