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

Development of Risk Management Mitigation Plans for the Infant Formula Milk Supply Chain Using an AHP Model

Applied Sciences, 2023, vol. 13, n° 13, pp 1-22, (in coll. with M. Haji, T. Al-Ansari)

Evaluating the Performance of a Safe Insulin Supply Chain Using the AHP-TOPSIS Approach

Processes, October 2022, vol. 10, n° 11, pp 2203, (in coll. with M. Haji, T. Al-Ansari)

A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Decision Support Systems for Healthcare Referral Strategies

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 2022, vol. 19, n° 24, pp 16952, (in coll. with H. A. B. Aboelkhir, A. Elomri, T. Y. ElMekkawy, M. S. Elakkad, A. Al-Ansari, O. M. Aboumarzouk, A. El Omri)

Potential of additive manufacturing for upstream automotive supply chains

Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 2022, vol. 23, n° 1, pp 1-19, (in coll. with M. S. Muhammad, A. Elomri)

Fleet sizing of trucks for an inter-facility material handling system using closed queueing networks

Operations Research Perspectives, October 2022, vol. 9, n° 100245, (in coll. with M. Amjath, J. M. Smith, A. Elomri)

Decisions on design and planning of solar-assisted hydroponic farms under various subsidy schemes

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, March 2022, vol. 156, n° 111958, pp 111958, (in coll. with Z. Xu, A. Elomri, T. Al-Ansari, T. El Mekkawy)

Shared Clean Mobility Operations for First-Mile and Last-Mile Public Transit Connections: A Case Study of Doha, Qatar

Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022, vol. 2022, n° 1052221, pp 1-14, (in coll. with A. Fayez Eliyan, A. Elomri)

Food Quality, Drug Safety, and Increasing Public Health Measures in Supply Chain Management

Processes, August 2022, vol. 10, n° 9, pp 1715, (in coll. with M. Haji, T. Al-Ansari)

The last-mile delivery challenge: evaluating the efficiency of smart parcel stations

Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 2021, vol. 22, n° 4, pp 360-369, (in coll. with A. Eliyan, A. Elomri)

Critical Success Factors and Traceability Technologies for Establishing a Safe Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Methods and Protocols, 2021, vol. 4, n° 4, pp 85, (in coll. with M. Haji, K. M. M. Sheriff, T. Al-Ansari)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Procurement 4.0: Drivers, Challenges, Remedies, and Benefits

5th European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management , 2022 , Rome (A. ALTHABATAH, R. E. FRANZOI, B. MENEZES)

The Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage: Causes, Implications, and Potential Remedies

10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control , 2022 , Nantes , 55 , 10 (W. Mohammad, A. Elomri)

A New Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with simultaneous Pickup and Delivery

2020 EurOMA conference , 2020 , University of Warwick (H. XIAO, A. ELOMRI)

Implementation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for Automotive Supply Chain Transformation in Post Covid-19 Scenario- A Barrier Analysis

Proceedings of the 5th NA International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management_IEOM , 2020 , Detroit (M. SHERIFF)

Working papers

Scientific articles

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)

A Closed Queueing Networks Approach for an Optimal Heterogeneous Fleet Size of an Inter-Facility Bulk Material Transfer System

Logistics, March 2024, vol. 8, n° 26, pp 1-38, (in coll. with M. Amjath, J. M. Smith)

Consumers’ Marketing Channel Choice and the Impact on Logistics and Operations: A Systematic Literature Review of the Fresh Food and Grocery Sector

Logistics, 2024, vol. 8, n° 1, (in coll. with H. Alkhiyami, M. Hadid)

Frontiers and trends of supply chain optimization in the age of industry 4.0: an operations research perspective

Annals of Operations Research, July 2024, vol. 338, pp 1359-1401, (in coll. with Z. Xu, A. Elomri, R. Baldacci, Z. Wu)