Dr. Shawn Bhimani

Supply Chain Visibility, UFLPA & EU Due Diligence, Consulting, Research, Compliance

I am an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, and I advise a select number of companies each year on the hardest problems in supply chain compliance: UFLPA, the EU Forced Labor Regulation, CSDDD, and the work of actually seeing what’s happening past Tier 1, which includes know your supplier (KYS).
Most of the companies I talk to do not have a forced labor problem so much as a visibility problem. They have spreadsheets full of direct suppliers, the right policy language, and no real way to answer the question their general counsel keeps asking: can we defend this? My work with supply chain data and multi-tier visibility is helping them get to a defensible, compliance-based answer.

Research

Making Real-World Impact.

Driving Change for a World Without
Forced Labor.

Research with companies, governments, and non-profits to cause real-world impact.

Dr. Bhimani’s research projects include:
A grant-funded project for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study forced labor in the U.S. agricultural sector (2020 – 2023)
-A grant-funded project with WJC-NY to analyze cases of forced labor in supply chains
-A qualitative study on the uses of technology in corporate supply chain visibility (2021)
-An econometric study of historic supply chain vulnerabilities (2019)
-A quantitative analysis of preventing or curing forced labour in corporate supply chains (2019)
-A methodological framework for understanding vulnerability in hidden supply chains (Published by the British Library in 2019 Ph.D. Thesis)
-A qualitative analysis of research gaps in the humanitarian logistics (published in the Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 2016)

In the News

Op Eds, Industry Panels, International Speaker

Press

Op-Ed in FastCompany for Federal Procurement in Global Supply Chains

Panels

Offering critical perspectives
to business audiences

Speeches

Delivering impactful remarks
to move supply chains forward

Make it Impactful

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Real-World Experience

Operating on the beach-head

Northeastern University (Boston)

2020 – Current​

Tenure Track: Supply Chain Research, Supervision, Teaching

University of Chicago (U.S., London, Hong Kong)
Dartmouth University
Duke University

2013-2019

Graduate Teaching Assistant for MBA + Executives

Global Supply Chain (Fortune 5)

2009 – 2010

International Procurement Associate

Global Supply Chain (Fortune 5)

2011-2012

Lead Business Analyst

Global Supply Chain (Fortune 5)

2012 – 2013

Supply Chain Optimization

Courses

Undergraduate, MBA, Executive

Student Feedback

Source: RateMyProfessor.com
(real posts with stock photos + random names added for flair)

John Doe

One of the absolute best professors at Northeastern; he treats students as equals and actually cares. The tests are difficult, but […] he brings in many guest speakers and discusses his real-life experience in the Supply Chain field.

Sally Smith

Legit favorite person in the world–so caring, equitable, and a genius. This man is literally a superhero. While tests can be hard, they are all open notes so you need to work hard and study the material, but not memorize anything. Changed my major to supply chain because of him!!

Samuel Stevens

This professor is by far my favorite I had at Northeastern. He’s extremely knowledgeable in Supply Chain, combines class material with personal experiences and is the most* inspirational person! You have to study a hard but it’s very rewarding at the end.

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