Associate Professor Kamrul Ahsan
Details
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College: Accounting, Info Sys & Supply Chain
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Department: Accounting, Info Sys & Supply Chain
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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kamrul.ahsan@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-9757-1285
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Kamrul Ahsan, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management. He has positive track record of academic research, teaching and higher degree research supervision, and academic leadership activities.
He has been teaching since 2003 in business schools in the supply chain management, project management and operations management areas. He has authored many peer-reviewed articles in reputed international journals. He has experience of program administration, curriculum development, and course coordination. He was program coordinator of Bachelor of Business (Supply Chain and Logistics Management) at RMIT University and program director of Master of Supply Chain Management at Victoria University.
He has work experience in multi-cultural environments within an international arena. He has worked at College of Business, Victoria University, Melbourne; School of Business, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Bang College of Business, KIMEP, Kazakhstan; and Industrial and Production Engineering Department, BUET, Bangladesh. He was a visiting research fellow at University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA and visiting research scholar at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He has taught customized courses to industry professionals such as Linfox, Australia, and Beca Construction, New Zealand.
Dr. Ahsan has extensive higher degree research (HDR) supervision experience. His research specialisation areas include social and environmental sustainability in supply chain, circular supply chain, digital supply chain strategy, supply chain procurement, skills and competencies essential for operations and supply chain professionals, and other interdisciplinary issues of sustainability and technology management.
Awards
- Teaching excelence award 2024, School of AISSC, RMIT
- Nominated 'Excelence in Research Supervision 2024', College of Business and Law, RMIT
- Best Paper Award 2024 (with Vei Yie Tan and Aswini Yadlapalli), the 28th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2024), Thailand
- Best Paper Award 2018 (with Rezaul Shumon and Shams Rahman), the 23rd International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2018), Bali, Indonesia
- Best Paper Award 2011, the 21st International Conference on Production Research (ICPR21), Stuttgart, Germany
- Project Management Institute NZ, Research Achievement Award 2011
Supervisor projects
- A Blockchain-Based Last-Mile Delivery Deployment Model
- 6 Feb 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in demand planning: a case for German manufacturing SMEs in the electric vehicle industry
- 5 Feb 2024
- Circular economy and supply chain sustainability
- 24 Nov 2022
- How Blockchain Technology can remediate Modern Slavery in Healthcare Supply Chains
- 28 Jun 2022
- The Relationship Between Supply Chain Sustainability Practices and Financial Performance: Evidence from the GRI-G4 Reports of OECD Manufacturing Firms
- 1 Mar 2018
- The impact of stringent buyer environmental requirements on environmental performance of supply chains
- 29 Feb 2016
- Building Capabilities to Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness: A Study of Australian Advanced Manufacturing SMEs
- 29 Feb 2016
- A Qualitative Study of Success Factors for Portfolios of Agile Projects in Large Organisations
- 22 Feb 2016
- Financial Supply Chain Risk in Australian Financial Institutions
- 3 Sep 2015
Teaching interests
Teaching expertise
- Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain
- Retail Service and Logistics Management
- Operations and Logistics Strategy
- Business Project Management
- Procurement Management
HDR supervision interests
- Sustainable supply chain - addressing social and environmental dimensions.;
- Procurement - exploring sustainable practices in public and private sectors, including project procurement;
- Circular supply chain - Emphasising circular product design and reverse logistics;
- Managing challenges related to product returns and recalls;
- Human Resource Management in Logistics and Supply Chain: Focusing on skills development, competencies, and talent management;
- Technology in logistis and supply chains: enhancing performance through technological advancements.
Research interests
Supply Chain and Logistics, Technology Management, and Studies in Higher Education areas:
- Sustainable supply chain - addressing social and environmental dimensions.;
- Procurement - exploring sustainable practices in public and private sectors, including project procurement;
- Circular supply chain - Emphasising circular product design and reverse logistics;
- Managing challenges related to product returns and recalls;
- Human Resource Management in Logistics and Supply Chain: Focusing on skills development, competencies, and talent management;
- Technology in logistis and supply chains: enhancing performance through technological advancements;
- Studies in Higher Education: contract cheating, assessment design and evaluation, use of micro-credentials in future learning
