Dr. Amar Sapra is Professor and IIMB Chair of Excellence in the Production and Operations Management area at IIM Bangalore.  He completed PhD at Cornell University and BE at IIT Roorkee. Prior to joining IIM Bangalore in 2009, he taught at the University of Florida and Cornell University in the United States.  Outside of IIMB, he was an independent director on the board of Future Supply Chain Solutions Ltd from 2017-23.   

His research interests include Supply Chain Management, Pricing, and Inventory Management. His research has been published in top-tier journals such as Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. One of the chapters from his PhD dissertation received the prestigious Best PhD Student Paper Award in Operations Management in 2003, given annually by the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. He serves on the editorial review board of the journal, Production and Operations Management. He has also co-authored a book titled, Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More (published by Springer in 2010). He received an Honorable Mention for Best Published Paper in Scheduling and Logistics Track in IIE Transactions (Journal) during 2013 to 2014 for ‘A Continuous Time Analog to the Martingale Model of Forecast Evolution’.  He regularly contributes to popular media on articles related to operations and supply chain management. 

His teaching experience, spanning nearly two decades, includes teaching high-rated courses on Supply Chain Management, Inventory Control, Operations Management, Spreadsheet Analytics, Simulation, and Optimization.