Debashish Jena

Background

About Debashish Jena

I have always maintained a strong desire to be constantly challenged by real-world problems, and a passion for actionable research-led consulting. I am ever so excited about finding creative ways to solve complex and challenging problems faced by clients. A combination of consulting and research experience allows me to bring the right amount of strategic perspective and analytical rigor to bear on messy business problems without compromising on accuracy. I firmly believe in leveraging both intuition and insight-driven approaches to provide durable solutions for my clients' pressing issues. I have substantial experience in operations consulting in a variety of corporate settings, including manufacturing and process industries, energy, and services; I have worked with MNCs, PSUs, government agencies, and the private sector. I have considerable consulting and research experience in the following areas: Production Planning and Scheduling, Personnel Planning and Allocation, Mixed-Model Planning in Manufacturing and Services, Planning and simulation of capacity-sensitive goods and services, logistics and supply chain modeling, crew planning, and allocation models, supply chain contract design, multi-sourcing models, optimization (Gurobi, ILOG CPLEX/CP; GAMs, Solvers), discrete event simulation (ARENA,@Risk), Excel-VBA, Python-based application development, etc. I teach supply chain management, operations management, lean operations management, operations research, service operations management, and project management to MBA students. I liberally mix games, simulations, cases, and live projects into my courses.