Ananth Iyer

Ananth Iyer is the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and the director of the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises (DCMME) and the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative (GSCMI) at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. He was president-elect of the MSOM Society of INFORMS in 2001–2002 and served as president for the year 2002–2003. Prior to joining the Krannert faculty in 1996, Professor Iyer taught at the University of Chicago. He has been affiliated with the Production and Distribution Research Center at Georgia Tech and as a consultant to Daymon Associates, Sara Lee, Turner Broadcasting, Dade Behring, Case New Holland, and others.