Mandyam M. Srinivasan ("Srini") is The Ball Corporation Distinguished Professor of Business at The University of Tennessee. He teaches in the Professional MBA, Executive MBA Program and Aerospace MBA Programs.  He is a member of the MBA core faculty and helped develop an innovative MBA program focusing on the Integrated Value Chain.  He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Srini worked for five years in two leading automobile manufacturing companies and has successfully installed and managed the materials planning and control systems in both of these companies. He received the Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement from The University of Tennessee in 1996, and was selected as a Stokely Scholar (1999-2001) of the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee.  He received the John B. Ross Outstanding Teacher Award in 2002, and is listed in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers.

He is the author of Streamlined: 14 Principles for Building and Managing the Lean Supply Chain, published by Thomson in November 2004.  His current research interests are in creating flow in high variety, low volume, manufacturing systems, and performance modeling of manufacturing and telecommunication systems.  His work appears in many journals including Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and Queueing Systems.  His research and teaching efforts have been supported by grants from numerous organizations, including Northern Telecom, General Motors, Allied-Honeywell, IBM, and the National Science Foundation. He is the Editor of IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing and is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems.

Srini teaches in the Lean Enterprise Systems Design Institute, the Supply Chain Management Certification Program, the Lean MRO Enterprise Program and in numerous other programs run by the Center for Executive Education.