BIOGRAPHY

Aditi Patil is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at the Bissett School of Business. She holds the Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP) designation from Supply Chain Canada, an MBA in Marketing, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, and is currently completing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at the University of Calgary. Aditi brings more than fifteen years of combined industry and academic experience spanning operations, manufacturing, logistics, procurement, and services.

Her research interests center around sustainable transportation, studying the carbon footprints of global supply chains and to understand last mile delivery challenges in low-density urban freight planning, and the integration of last-mile delivery networks with regional freight infrastructure.

She serves as an Advisor on the Prairie Economic Gateway Government Relations Advisory Committee, a multi-stakeholder initiative between the City of Calgary and Rocky View County developing a major inland port and rail-served industrial hub, where she contributes academic expertise on logistics, sustainable freight, and regional freight flow optimization. Prior to her academic career, she held industry roles that gave her direct experience in 3PL operations, warehouse management, procurement, and international supply chain coordination.

KEY TEACHING AREAS

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Introduction to Physical Distribution
Physical Distribution & Logistics
Inventory and Warehouse Management
Operations Management

Other courses taught include

Operations Planning & Scheduling
Logistics Management
Quality: A Supply Chain Perspective
Professional Practice in Supply Chain Management
Principles of Supply Chain Management
Materials Management
Operations and Quantitative Management

Publications

Kang, P. S., Bhatti, R. S., & Patil, A. (2023). Apple's response to COVID-19 disruptions: Supply chain risk analysis and mitigation. In SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529610635

Patil, A. & Bhatti, R. S. (2026, June). Configurational criteria for provider selection: A multi-criteria framework for logistics orchestrators. Paper selected for presentation at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Conference, 2026.

Patil, A. & Bhatti, R. S. (2026, June). AI-augmented decision-making for sustainable urban freight: A dynamic multi-criteria framework for Calgary. Work-in-progress paper selected for presentation at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Conference, 2026.