Suman Kumar Das

Assistant Professor

Envelope

Biography

A techno-management professional with over a decade of academic and training experience and vast consultancy experience across industry sectors. He has worked in Industry 4.0, circular economy and environmental sustainability, supporting organizations in adopting net-zero strategies and resource-efficient practices. He has trained corporate professionals, entrepreneurs and students in sustainable innovations and strategic management. He specializes in digital technologies, project management and integrating circular economy models into business systems, with interests in supply chain management, sustainability frameworks, industrial management and entrepreneurship development.

Academic/Professional Qualification

  • PhD (Industrial Management)
  • Mtech (Mechanical Engineering)

Areas of Specialization

  • Supply chain Management,
  • operation research,
  • Industry 4.0,
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Technologies,
  • Circular economy,
  • Sustainability,
  • Servitisation,
  • Innovation
Papers/Chapters
  • Pujyasmita Nayak, Suman Kumar Das, SamikhyaMishra , Amit Kumar Pandit “Waste Management in a Changing Climate:Building Resilience for the Future” on “Advancing Sustainability: Data Analytics and Smart Technologies in Solid Waste Management”, Chapter 17, Apple academic press, taylor and Francis group, Hard ISBN: 9781779640826, September 2025
  • Rangabhatla Saishree, Suman Kumar Das, Nivedita Panda, B. Anjan Kumar Prusty and Chandan Mahata "Bioplastic and Nature Based Solutions in Era of Global Sustainability" on "Micro-Nano Plastics Exposure, Environmental Degradation and Global Challenges", Springer link, eBook ISBN 978-981-96-5047-7
  • Suman Kumar Das, Saccani Nicola, (2026) “Circular Economy and Waste Reduction: Future Directions in Sustainable Practices,” springer link ( In press)
Research Publications
  • Das, S.K.,Bressanelli, G. & Saccani, N (2024). "Clustering the Research at the Intersection of Industry 4.0 Technologies, Environmental Sustainability and Circular Economy: Evidence from Literature and Future Research Directions." Circ.Econ.Sust. (2024).
  • Das, S.K., Bressanelli, G. & Saccani (2025) N. “How Digital Technologies trigger sustainability and circularity in Operations Management processes? The role of environmental drivers” Business Process Management Journal
  • Das S.K, Perona M (2025) “Supply Risk Automation”, Electronic Markets
  • Das, S. K., Gouda, D. K., & Dash, A. (2019). An Experimental Research on Design and Development of Tricopter. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), 8(3), 5119–5130. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.C5728.098319.
  • Das S.K, Paswan M.K .(2015) “Design and methodology of automated guided vehicle –A review” on IOSR journal of mechanical and civil engineering ISSN:2278-1684.
Seminars & Conferences Attended
  • Das S.K.,Saccani N, Bressanelli G. "Bridging the Gap: Assessing the Circular Economy Readiness of Indian Manufacturing SMEs" Euroma 2025 Milan
  • Das S.K.,Saccani N, "Supporting the Circular Economy Using Digital Technologies in Operations Management Processes" on BAMS-ORSI 2024, Volume 1 on Edward Elgar Publishing book series Artificial Intelligence and the Circular Economy (September 2025)
  • Das S.K.,Saccani N, "Analysing the Role of IoT and Big Data in Circular Supply Chains Using a Comparative Study on Text Mining/Topic Modelling and an Industrial Case Study" on Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, IoT and Big Data (ICMIB 2024), Volume 1 on Springer book series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
  • Das, S. K., Bressanelli G., Saccani N.,Perona M. "Digital technologies for the sustainability of circular manufacturing processes: a review" XXVIII Summer School “Francesco Turco” « Blue, Resilient & Sustainable Supply Chain »
  • Das S.K. , G. Bressanelli, Saccani N. (2023) "A Bibliometric Analysis of the Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on the Circular Economy” presented at 2nd International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Automation ISIEA 2023 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Associations
  • EuROMA, POM, ISEA, AIDII, Indo Italian chamber of commerce