| Name | Dr. C.N. Udaya Shankar |
| Subject Area | Operations and SCM |
| udaya.s@iba.ac.in |
Dr. C.N. Udaya Shankar has a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Bangalore University, MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University,
M.Phil in Management from Sri Venkateswara University and Ph.D. in Management
from Bharathiar University.
He has worked for more than 25 years in industries like Bosch Ltd
and Techno CNC Pvt. Ltd. His passion is in Lean Manufacturing.
He was trained in Lean concepts in Bosch plants located in Germany, China and Malaysia.
He believes in teaching in a simple way through simulation games, connecting concepts to
real-life examples, videos, industrial visits and driving the complex concepts into students’
minds in a simple way to make them industry ready.
- BE (Mech.), MBA (Fin), M.Phil (Mgmt), MS (Mfg), PhD (Mgmt)
- 25 years in Industry (Bosch Limited and Techno CNC Pvt. Ltd) & 10 years in academics
- Mentored students of Ramaiah Institute of Management in Kaizen. The teams participated in a National level competition arranged by QCFI at Aurangabad. The team got Par Excellence Award and qualified to participate in the International Level Competition.
- Certified as “BPS Mentor” (Mentor in Lean Manufacturing) by Bosch, Germany.
- Won BEML Trophy as “Best Supply Chain Manager” in a competition organised by IIMM in 2004.
- Received appreciation for Bosch – India from customer M/s Hartz, Germany for providing a low-cost solution to a complex technical problem in their manufacturing process.
- Instrumental in securing the Best BPS Plant Award for Power Tools Division of Bosch India out of 27 Bosch plants worldwide for implementing Lean practices in 2011.
- BOS Member for Don Bosco Institute of Technology and R V College of Engineering.
- Empanelled Lean Consultant with Ministry of MSME.
- Awarded Black Belt in Six Sigma.
- Worked with PES Institute of Technology as Consultant for implementing Lean Manufacturing in 10 MSMEs.
- Jury for assessing Kaizen events conducted by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI).
- Operations and Supply Chain management
- Book on Personability attributes and their impact on Entrepreneurial success” published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (22.01.2023) with ISBN 978-6205633106
- ‘A study on operation Performance of selected automobile companies specific to India’ published in African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, Vol. 17, No. 17, 2024. ISSN: 1993-3463 (ABDC).
- ‘Marginal study of the Buying Behaviour of Investors with respect to Insurance’ published in Empirical Economics Letters – Monthly International Economics Journal, Vol. 23, Special Issue 3, Sept 2024. ISSN: 1681-8997 (ABDC).
- ‘Systematic Analysis of challenges in reducing the carbon footprint in automobile industry’ published in Journal of International Conference Proceedings (JICP), Bali, Vol. 07, No. 5, 2024. ISSN: 2621-993X.
- ‘The systematic literature review of Lean practices in India’ published in Journal of International Conference Proceedings (JICP), Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1155–1169, February 2025. P-ISSN: 2622-0989 / E-ISSN: 2621-993X.
- ‘Role of Lean Manufacturing and its effectiveness on productivity’ published in International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education (INT-JECS), Vol. 14, Issue 07, 2022. DOI: 10.48047/INTJECSE/V14I7.186, ISSN: 1308-5581 (WoS).
- Rs 8 lakhs for consultancy work in implementation of Lean Manufacturing in a cluster of 7 MSMEs