Staff Profile

Dr. Ajinkya Tanksale is a Lecturer of Operations & Supply Chain management at Newcastle University Business School. Prior to joining Newcastle University, Dr. Tanksale worked at Reh School of Business, Clarkson University, USA and Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and System Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is a recipient of postdoctoral research fellowship at Sabanci University, Turkey. He is keenly interested in solving a variety of complex real-life problems in the domain of Operations and Supply Chain Management primarily using Operations Research techniques. Dr. Tanksale has published his research in several reputed Journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, Safety Science, INFOR, RAIRO and British Food Journal. He attended and presented his research in several reputed international conferences. He is an associate editor of OPSEARCH - journal of OR society of India, editorial board member of International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, and served as reviewer to many journals in OR/MS domain.

Research Interests

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• Supply chain network design
• Sustainability
• Last mile delivery
• Transportation
• Hyper-local retailing

Operations Management

• Non-profit and public sector operations
• Facility location
• Scheduling

Dr. Tanksale is open for research collaborations and student supervisions. Please feel free to reach out to discuss it further.

Dr. Tanksale has taught several courses in the domain of Operations & Supply Chain Management including Production and Operations Management, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Facility Location, Strategic Sourcing, Quality Management and Quantitative decision making.

• Articles

  • Raj A, Mishra V, Tanksale A, Samuel C. Solving hospital waste management problem in a developing country – a case of Varanasi city in India. Facilities 2024, 42(5/6), 421-445.
  • Tanksale A, Dalal J, Dubey N. Integrated foodbank network design: Model and a case study. International Journal of Production Economics 2024. In Press.
  • Kamthane A, Singh P, Tanksale AN. An optimisation-simulation framework for integrated inventory and cash replenishment problem of automated teller machines in India. International Journal of Operational Research 2024, 49(1), 19-46.
  • Singh R, Chouksey A, Tanksale AN, Samuel C. A strategic model for the closed-loop supply chain network design for omni-channel retailing. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management 2023, 46(4), 484-517.
  • Yadav N, Tanksale A. A multi-objective approach for reducing Patient’s inconvenience in a generalized home healthcare delivery setup. Expert Systems with Applications 2023, 219, 119657.
  • Dubey N, Tanksale A. A multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows, split pickup and split delivery for surplus food recovery and redistribution. Expert Systems with Applications 2023, 232, 120807.
  • Tripathi G, Tanksale AN, Verma M. Optimal location of accident relief facilities in a railway network. Safety Science 2022, 146, 105560.
  • Das D, Verma P, Tanksale AN. Designing a closed-loop supply chain for reusable packaging materials: A risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming model using CVaR. Computers & Industrial Engineering 2022, 167, 108004.
  • Yadav N, Tanksale A. An integrated routing and scheduling problem for home healthcare delivery with limited person-to-person contact. European Journal of Operational Research 2022, 303(3), 1100-1125.
  • Dubey N, Tanksale A. A study of barriers for adoption and growth of food banks in India using hybrid DEMATEL and Analytic Network Process. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2022, 79, 101124.
  • Chouksey A, Agrawal AK, Tanksale AN. A hierarchical capacitated facility location-allocation model for planning maternal healthcare facilities in India. Computers & Industrial Engineering 2022, 167, 107991.
  • Tanksale AN, Das D, Verma P, Tiwari MK. Unpacking the role of primary packaging material in designing green supply chains: An integrated approach. International Journal of Production Economics 2021, 236, 108133.
  • Singh P, Kamthane AR, Tanksale AN. Metaheuristics for the distance constrained generalized covering traveling salesman problem. OPSEARCH 2021, 58(3), 575-609.
  • Gedam VV, Raut RD, Jabbour A, Tanksale AN, Narkhede BE. Circular economy practices in a developing economy: Barriers to be defeated. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 311, 127670.
  • Tanksale A, Jha JK. Benders decomposition approach with heuristic improvements for the robust foodgrain supply network design problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society 2020, 71(1), 16-36.
  • Tanksale A, Jha JK. A hybrid fix-and-optimize heuristic for integrated inventory-transportation problem in a multi-region multi-facility supply chain. RAIRO-Operations Research 2020, 54(3), 749-782.
  • Tanksale A, Jha JK. Solving multi-region multi-facility inventory allocation and transportation problem: a case of Indian public distribution system. Computers & Industrial Engineering 2017, 110, 175-190.
  • Tanksale A, Jha JK. An effective heuristic for multi-period multi-foodgrain inventory transportation problem in India. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research 2016, 54(4).
  • Tanksale A, Jha JK. Implementing national food security act in India: issues and challenges. British Food Journal 2015, 117(4), 1315-1335.