Laoucine KERBACHE

Emeritus Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

Biography

Laoucine Kerbache holds a Ph.D., an M.Sc, and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the University of Nantes (France), and a diploma of International Teacher Program (IMD-Lausanne, Switzerland).

Laoucine Kerbache is Dean and CEO of HEC Paris Qatar. He has been teaching (undergraduate, MBA, and executive programs), researching and consulting in the field of operations and supply chain management, logistics, and applied quantitative methods for more than twenty five years.

He has been supervising several Master and Ph.D. dissertations on optimization in operations and supply chain management.

He has published numerous papers in international journals such as: Marketing Science, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Transactions of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, IEEE Transactions, Material Flows, Interfaces, Gestion 2000, Santé et Systémique, etc. He is the co-author of Management Industriel et Logistique: Conception and Pilotage de la Supply Chain, 4th Edition (2005) and 5th Edition (2007), Economica, France.

He has been teaching in different countries and acted as consultant to various companies and to many international organizations in designing MBA programs and executive management development courses. He has also held various management positions in the academic environment. He is currently a Visiting Professor at ESADE (Spain).

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Scientific articles

Drivers of change to e-grocery: an investigation of consumers’ channel choice

Electronic Commerce Research, Forthcoming, (in coll. with H. Alkhiyami, R. Padmanabhan, M. Hadid)

AI driven transformation in trade finance: A roadmap for automating letter of credit document examination

Digital Business, December 2025, vol. 5, n° 2, pp 100130, (in coll. with M. A. Khalil, R. Padmanabhan, M. Hadid, A. Elomri)

Towards Additive Manufacturing Enabled Sustainable Spare Parts Supply Chain: A Multi-Objective MILP Model for Cost and Carbon Emissions Minimization

Procedia Computer Science, 2025, vol. 253, pp 952-963, (in coll. with M. F. Sheikh, D. R. Padmanabhan, D. M. Hadid)

Optimizing Multi-Plant Supply Chains: A Case Study of Textile and Spare Parts Production in Qatar and Türkiye

Procedia Computer Science, 2025, vol. 253, pp 765-773, (in coll. with O. A. Hasnah, M. Hadid, R. Padmanabhan)

Brief Report: Blockchain-based green supply chain management framework for sustainable practices in Bangladeshi RMG industries

Discover Sustainability, 5 June 2025, vol. 6, n° 508, pp 1-12, (in coll. with M. Al Amin, R. Baldacci)

An integrated Artificial Intelligence and optimization model for operational efficiency and risk reduction in Letter of Credit examination process

Decision Analytics Journal, 2025, vol. 14, n° 100552, (in coll. with M. A. Khalil, M. Hadid, R. Padmanabhan, A. Elomri)

A systematic review of food accessibility in the food supply chains

Supply Chain Analytics, September 2025, vol. 11, pp 100149, (in coll. with B. Liu, M. Chen, M. Kharbeche, M. Haouari, X. Gu, W. Wang, W. Guo)

Smart food supply chain management: A bibliometric and systematic review

Food and Humanity, December 2025, vol. 5, pp 100736, (in coll. with M. J. Al-Thani, M. Hadid, R. Padmanabhan, A. Elomri)

Impact of Additive Manufacturing on Spare Parts Inventory Management

Procedia Computer Science, 2025, vol. 253, pp 874-881, (in coll. with T. Farghali, R. Padmanabhan, M. Hadid)

Assessing Transformative Procurement Maturity: A General Framework using a Fuzzy Model

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, September 2025, vol. 11, n° 3, pp 100622, (in coll. with A. Althabatah, R. Padmanabhan, M. Yaqot, M. Hadid)

Books

Doing business in Qatar: case studies for executive education

Editions Winterwork 2020 (in coll. with W. AMANN )

Doing Business in the MENA Region: Insights from the EFMD Case Writing Competition

Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2017 (in coll. with W. AMANN, N. BURQUEL )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 2013 (in coll. with G. BAGLIN, O. BRUEL, J. NEHME, C. VAN DELFT )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 2007 (in coll. with C. VAN DELFT, G. BAGLIN, O. BRUEL, A. GARREAU, M. GREIF )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 2005 (in coll. with M. GREIF, C. VAN DELFT, A. GARREAU, O. BRUEL, G. BAGLIN )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 2001 (in coll. with M. GREIF, A. GARREAU, C. VAN DELFT, G. BAGLIN, O. BRUEL )

Management industriel et logistique

Editions Economica 1990 (in coll. with G. BAGLIN, O. BRUEL, M. GREIF, C. VAN DELFT, A. GARREAU )

Chapters in edited books

COASTAL: Group of companies mounting a manufacturing industry in Qatar

Doing Business In Qatar: Case Studies For Executive Education, W. Amann, L. Kerbache, Editions Winterwork

Optimal Internet Media Selection

From Little'S Law To Marketing Science: Essays In Honor Of John D.c. Little, John R. Hauser, Glen L. Urban, MIT Press, 2

Les enjeux stratégiques de la supply chain

L'Art Du Management 3, HEC Paris, Dunod, 212-218

Planning and Scheduling Transportation Vehicle fleet in a Congested Traffic Environment

Supply Chain Management - European Perspectives, R. de Koster, W. Delfmann (Eds), Copenhagen Business School Press, chapitre 13 , 262-284

The Generalized Expansion Method

Queueing Theory In Manufacturing Systems Analysis And Design, H. T. Papadopoulos, C. Heavey, J. Browne (Eds), Chapman & Hall

Proceedings

A Process-Based Cost Estimation Model for Metal Spare Parts Production Using Additive Manufacturing

8th European Conference on IEOM , 2025 (M. FAHAD, M. HADID, R. PADMANABHAN, A. ELOMRI, F. GHASSAN ALABTAH, M. KHRAISHEH)

Robotics in Surgeries: Surgical Robot Operation and Workflow Optimization

2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) , 2024 , Bristol (A. Riad, M. Hadid, A. Elomri, A. E. Omri)

Bibliometric and Narrative Review Analysis of Additive Manufacturing's Impact on Supply Chain Resilience

2023 International Conference on IEOM , 2023 (M. AMJATH, A. ELOMRI)

Optimal Buffers Allocation in an Inter-facility Material Transfer System Modelled as a Closed Queueing Network and Analysed Through a Simulation-Optimisation Approach

13th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management , 2023 (M. AMJATH, A. ELOMRI, J. SMITH)

Working papers

Optimal Strategy for Stochastic Product Rollover under risk using CVAR analysis

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2012

Analysis of Crossdocking in a distribution system to reduce the bullwhip effect

Mimeo , 2007

Capacited News-boy Model Problem With Non-Linear Parameters

Mimeo , 2007

Optimal Internet Media Scheduling

Mimeo , 2007

Internet Media Planning: An Optimization Model

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2004

Planning and Scheduling Transportation Vehicle fleet in a Congested Traffic Environment

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2004

An Optimization Algorithm for Virtual Memory Computer System

Mimeo , 2026

Workforce Planning and cross-training