Jayaram, Jay

Jayanth Jayaram is the Earl Congdon Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina. He obtained his Ph.D. in supply chain management from Michigan State University and an MBA in general business administration from Central Michigan University. He has had eight years of work experience in multinational companies and consulting firms prior to his MBA. He is professionally certified as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in India and as a Certified Purchasing and Supply Management Professional (CPSM) in the USA.
His research interests are in sustainability, global operations strategy, supply chain management, new product development, and strategic purchasing. He has published his research in various journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal of Production Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (to name a few). His research has been well-cited by researchers around the world (Current h-index is 48; Total Citations 14,068). He has secured research grants from the Center for International Business Education and Research, the Family Owned Business Institute, and the Institute of Supply Management.
In addition to teaching at the Cameron School, Jayaram has taught at the University of Oklahoma, University of South Carolina, University of Oregon, and Michigan State University. He has taught a wide variety of courses in operations management, supply chain management, sustainability, and global sourcing. He has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D., and executive education levels.
He has played an active role in the inception, development and growth of the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management (GSCPM) at USC having helped make presentations to prospective company clients (such as Westinghouse, Pfizer, Milliken, Michelin, ENODIS and Ingersoll Rand), visiting prospective clients along with other faculty, participating in client meetings, scoping out and supervising student projects at the undergraduate and MBA levels. He has successfully managed applied learning projects in companies such as Belk, Target, Ingersoll Rand, Sonoco, Westinghouse Electric, Hubbell Power Systems, Sam’s Club and Rockwell Automation.
Dr. Jayaram serves on the editorial boards of top operations management journals like JOM, POMJ, JBL, JSCM, IJOPM, IJPR, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served as an examiner of research grant applications made to National Science Foundation, Austrian National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), Singapore.