Dhirendra Prajapati

Journal Publications

Dhirendra Prajapati, Saurabh Pratap, Mengdi Zhang, Lakshay & George Q. Haung (2022). “Sustainable forward-reverse logistics for multi-product delivery and pickup in B2C E-commerce towards the circular economy”. International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, Vol. 253, Issue No. 0, pages 108606. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108606

Dhirendra Prajapati, Sunil Kumar Jauhar, Angappa Gunasekaran, Sachin S. Kamble & Saurabh Pratap (2022). “Blockchain and IoT Embedded Sustainable Virtual Closed-Loop Supply Chain in E-commerce Towards the Circular Economy”. Computers & Industrial Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 172, Part A, pages 108530. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108530

Dhirendra Prajapati, Felix T.S. Chan, Yash Daultani, & Saurabh Pratap (2022). “Sustainable Vehicle Routing of Agro-Food Grains in E-commerce Industry.” International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 60, Issue No. 24, pages 7319-7344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2022.2034192

Dhirendra Prajapati, Felix T.S. Chan, H. Chelladurai, Lakshay Lakshay, and Saurabh Pratap (2022). “An Internet of Things Embedded Sustainable Supply Chain Management of B2B E-commerce”. Sustainability, MDPI, Vol. 14, Issue No. 9, pages 5066. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095066

Dhirendra Prajapati, H. Chelladurai, Fuli Zhou, Andrew W. H. Ip, & Saurabh Pratap (2022). “Sustainable Multi-products Delivery Routing Network Design for Two-echelon Supplier Selection Problem in B2B E-commerce Platforms”. RAIRO-Operations Research, EDP Sciences, Vol. 56, Issue No. 4, pages 2115-2137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/ro/2022072

Dhirendra Prajapati, Fuli Zhou, Ashish Dwivedi, Tripti Singh, Lakshay Lakshay & Saurabh Pratap (2022). “Sustainable Agro-Food Grains Supply Chain with Innovative Packaging in E-commerce Towards the Circular Economy.” Sustainability, MDPI, Vol. 15, Issue No. 4, pages 8698. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148698

Yash Daultani, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Saurabh Pratap, Dhirendra Prajapati (2022). “Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Network Design for New and Refurbished Products in E-commerce Logistics.” Operations and Supply Chain Management, OSCM, Vol. 14, Issue No. 14, pages 540-550. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31387/oscm0510365

Dhirendra Prajapati, Fuli Zhou, Mengdi Zhang, H. Chelladurai, & Saurabh Pratap (2021). “Sustainable Logistics Network Design for Multi-products Delivery Operations in B2B E-commerce Platform”. Sadhana: Indian Academy of Sciences, Springer, Vol. 46, Issue No. 100, pages 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-021-01624-1

Dhirendra Prajapati, Manoj M Kumar, H. Chelladurai, Saurabh Pratap, & MD Zuhair (2021). “Sustainable Logistics Network Design for Delivery Operations with Time Horizons in B2B E-commerce Platform”. Logistics, MDPI, Vol. 5, Issue No. 3, pages 61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/logistics5030061

Dhirendra Prajapati, Arjun R Harish, Yash Daultani, Harpreet Singh, & Saurabh Pratap (2020). “A Clustering-Based Routing Heuristic for E-commerce Fresh Food Last-Mile Logistics Operations.” Global Business Review, SAGE, Vol. 24, Issue No. 1, Pages 07-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0972150919889797

Mengdi Zhang, Saurabh Pratap, Zhiheng Zhao, Dhirendra Prajapati, & George Q Huang (2020). “Forward and reverse logistics vehicle routing problems with time horizons in B2C e-commerce logistics.” International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 59, Issue No. 20, pages 6291-6310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2020.1812749

Dhirendra Prajapati, Yash Daultani, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, & Saurabh Pratap (2020). “Identification and ranking of key factors impacting the efficiency of the Indian shipping logistics sector.” OPSEARCH, Springer, Vol. 57, Issue No. 0, pages 765-786. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12597-020-00442-z

Ashish Dwivedi, Ajay Jha, Dhirendra Prajapati, Nenavath Sreenu, & Saurabh Pratap (2020). “Meta-heuristic algorithms for solving the sustainable agro-food grain supply chain network design problem.” Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, Emerald, Vol. 2, Issue No. 3, pages 161-177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MSCRA-04-2020-0007

Conference Publications

Dhirendra Prajapati and Praveer Agrawal (2025). “An IoT-embedded smart, sustainable reverse logistics system towards the circular economy”, All India Manufacturing Technology, Design & Research (AIMTDR 2023) Conference, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 135–144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2543-0_12. Indexing: Scopus, SCImago Journal Rank: Q4.

Dhirendra Prajapati, Kumar Rohit, Ayush Maurya, & Ashish Dwivedi (2024). “Metaheuristic and Exact Approaches for Cost Optimization in Multi-Echelon Multimodal Transportation Network”, International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, LNNS, Volume 994, pp. 705-715. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-3180-0_47. Indexing: Scopus, SCImago Journal Rank: Q2.

Dhirendra Prajapati, Rajeev Agarwal, H. Chelladurai, Lakshay Lakshay, and Saurabh Pratap (2021). “Develop a Framework for Sustainable supply Chain problem for Textile industry: In B2B E-commerce Platform”, International Conference on Industrial Engineering Management (ICIEM-2021), MNIT, Jaipur, India. Award: Best Paper Presentation.

Dhirendra Prajapati, Arjun R Harish, Saurabh Pratap, Mengdi Zhang, & Yash Daultani (2020). “Multi-cyclic scheduling of identical parts in an N-machine no-wait robotic cell,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Dubai, UAE. Indexing: Scopus.

Yash Daultani, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Saurabh Pratap, & Dhirendra Prajapati (2019). “Designing Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Network for Refurbished Products”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM), Vietnam. Indexing: Scopus.

Dhirendra Prajapati, & Saurabh Pratap (2019). “Minimization of Time Window for Delivery of Orders in B2B E-commerce”, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE-2019), SV NIT, Surat, India.

Manoj M Kumar, Dhirendra Prajapati, Prabal Pratap, Fuli Zhou, & Saurabh Pratap (2019). “Berth and Quay Crane Allocation Problem for the Container Handling,” 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE-2019), SV NIT, Surat, India.

Dhirendra Prajapati, Ajay Jha, Nenavath Sreenu, & Saurabh Pratap (2019). “An MINLP Approach: Sustainable Agro-Food Supply Chain Network Design in Indian Context,” 6th Agro-Horticulture Supply Chain Conference (AHSCC), UPES, Dehradun, India. Award: Best Paper Presentation.