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40
Citations
5762
World Ranking
7398
National Ranking
2022

Overview

Rajan Suri is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering, business, management, and decision sciences. The subfields where their work is concentrated include industrial and manufacturing engineering, management information systems, architecture, and management science and operations research.

Their recent scholarly output includes a paper titled Leveraging Strategic Demand Variability: The Role of Lead-Time Measurement, published in 2025 in the Journal of Operations Management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Suri include:

  • John Burke
  • Suzanne de Treville
  • Tyson R. Browning
  • Roger W. Schmenner

Their publication record shows a consistent presence in the Journal of Operations Management.

Suri has also contributed to the literature through book publications. Notably, they authored Quick Response Manufacturing, published by Productivity Press eBooks in 2020.

The main research topics addressed by their work include:

  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Architecture and Computational Design
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Quality and Supply Management

Overall, their work integrates concepts from engineering and management disciplines to explore areas of manufacturing efficiency, supply chain dynamics, and innovation processes.

Best Publications

  • Perturbation analysis gives strongly consistent sensitivity estimates for the M/G/ 1 queue

    Rajan Suri;Michael A. Zazanis

  • Locking Performance in Centralized Databases

    Y. C. Tay;Nathan Goodman;R. Suri

  • Modelling flexible manufacturing systems using mean-value analysis

    Rajan Suri;Richard R. Hildebrant

  • Sample-path optimization of convex stochastic performance functions

    Erica L. Plambeck;Bor-Ruey Fu;Stephen M. Robinson;Rajan Suri

  • Convergence properties of infinitesimal perturbation analysis

    Philip Heidelberger;Xi-Ren Cao;Michael A. Zazanis;Rajan Suri

  • A control perspective on recent trends in manufacturing systems

    S. B. Gershwin;R. R. Hildebrant;R. Suri;S. K. Mitter

  • Chapter 5 Performance evaluation of production networks

    Rajan Suri;Jerry L. Sanders;Manjunath Kamath

  • Decision support requirements in flexible manufacturing

    Rajan Suri;Cynthia K. Whitney

  • Robustness of queuing network formulas

    Rajan Suri

  • An overview of evaluative models for flexible manufacturing systems

    R. Suri

  • A mean value performance model for locking in databases: the no-waiting case

    Y. C. Tay;Rajan Suri;Nathan Goodman

  • Infinitesimal perturbation analysis for general discrete event systems

    Rajan Suri

  • Time-optimal control of parts-routing in a manufacturing system with failure-prone machines

    G. Olsder;R. Suri

  • A variable buffer-size model and its use in analyzing closed queueing networks with blocking

    Rajan Suri;Gregory W. Diehl

  • Re-Examining the Performance of MRP and Kanban Material Control Strategies for Multi-Product Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Ananth Krishnamurthy;Rajan Suri;Mary Vernon

  • A Class of Center-Free Resource Allocation Algorithms 1

    Y.C. Ho;L. Servi;R. Suri

  • Optimal multiprogramming

    Peter J. Denning;Kevin C. Kahn;Jacques Leroudier;Dominique Potier

  • Planning and implementing POLCA: a card-based control system for high variety or custom engineered products

    Ananth Krishnamurthy;Rajan Suri

  • A Concept of Monotonicity and Its Characterization for Closed Queueing Networks

    Rajan Suri

  • Research and Models for Automated Manufacturing

    Kalyan Singhal;Charles H. Fine;Jack R. Meredith;Rajan Suri

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary K. Vernon
Mary K. Vernon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Xi-Ren Cao
Xi-Ren Cao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nathan Goodman
Nathan Goodman George Mason University
Ashoka Mody
Ashoka Mody Princeton University
Philip Heidelberger
Philip Heidelberger IBM (United States)
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning Naval Postgraduate School
Yu-Chi Ho
Yu-Chi Ho Harvard University
Jack R. Meredith
Jack R. Meredith Wake Forest University

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