Sunderesh S. Heragu

Oklahoma State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Decision Sciences (United States)

Papers

Total Citations

135

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About

Sunderesh S. Heragu is a leading authority in operations, logistics, and supply chain management, with a career dedicated to optimizing the complex systems that move goods from warehouse to customer. His foundational text, *Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management* (2018), has garnered over 82 citations, serving as a key resource for students and practitioners alike. Heragu’s research is distinguished by its focus on automation and intelligent control. He pioneered a clustering-based order-picking sequence algorithm (2003, 39 citations) that solves a critical bottleneck in automated warehouses: optimizing travel routes when pickers are limited to single-item loads within long, narrow layouts. Building on this, he developed an intelligent agent-based framework for warehouse control (2004, 14 citations), modeling order trays and gantry robots as cooperative agents to achieve both individual and system-wide scheduling goals. By blending theoretical rigor with practical, implementable solutions, Heragu has profoundly shaped modern warehouse design and control, demonstrating how intelligent systems can dramatically improve efficiency in the logistics backbone of global commerce.