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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Smart city solutions: Comparative analysis of waste management models in IoT-enabled environments using multiagent simulation

Sustainable Cities and Society, April 2024, vol. 103, pp 105247, (in coll. with D. I. Hussain, D. A. Elomri, D. A. E. Omri)

Performance Predication of a Solar Assisted Desiccant Air Conditioning System Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network: An Integrated Machine Learning Approach

Heliyon, May 2024, vol. 10, n° 9, pp e29777, (in coll. with S. Ullah, D. M. Ali, M. F. Sheikh, D. G. Q. Chaudhary)

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)

Vehicle Relocation in One-Way Carsharing: A Review

Sustainability, 24 January 2024, vol. 16, n° 3, pp 1014, (in coll. with A. F. Eliyan)

Queueing network models for the analysis and optimisation of material handling systems: a systematic literature review

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal (ex International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems), June 2024, vol. 36, pp 668-709, (in coll. with M. Amjath, A. Elomri, J. M. Smith)

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)

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

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)

Bridging the parcel delivery last mile gap in Qatar: Challenges and enhancements

10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control , 2022 , 55 , 10 (R. Jamous, A. A. Omari)

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 , 2025

Workforce Planning and cross-training