Laoucine KERBACHE

Emeritus Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

kerbache@hec.fr
Profile picture

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).

Scientific articles

Développement et mise en oeuvre d'un système d'information hospitalier au sein du service d'oncologie médicale, Centre Pierre et Marie Curie d'Alger

Santé, Décision, Management (anciennement Santé et systémique), 2003, vol. 7, n° 1-2, pp 277-285, (in coll. with Y. Kerboua Ziari)

Design and Analysis of Supply Chain Systems Using Closed Queueing Networks

International Journal of Business and Economics, Fall 2002, vol. 2, n° 1, pp 231-240,

Multi-objective routing within large scale facilities using open finite queueing networks

European Journal of Operational Research, 2000, vol. 121, n° 1, pp 105-123, (in coll. with J. Smith)

Business Education in the Information Society

Gestion 2000, July-August 1999, vol. 4, (in coll. with M. Norbis)

A Framework of Applied Quantitative Methods in Business for Uzbekistan

Gestion 2000, November-December 1996, vol. 6,

Modelling of Large Scale Facilities with Open finite Queueing Networks

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews, 1989, (in coll. with J. Smith)

Asymptotic Behavior of the Expansion Method for Open Finite Queueing Networks

Computers and Operations Research, 1988, vol. 15, n° 2, pp 157-169, (in coll. with J. Smith)

The Generalized Expansion Method for Open Finite Queuing Networks

European Journal of Operational Research, 1987, vol. 32, pp 448-461, (in coll. with J. Smith)

QNET: An Open Queueing Network Model for Material Handling System Analysis

Material Flow, 1986, vol. 3, pp 225-242, (in coll. with J. Smith, R. Graves)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

MHS: An Open Queueing Network Model for material Handling System Analysis

Proceedings of the International 1984 ASME Conference on Modelling and Simulation , 1984 (R. Graves, J. Smith)

The Material Handling Problem Using Queueing Networks: A Case Study

IIE Proceedings , 1983 , Louisville

Working papers

Scientific articles

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)

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)

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)

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

MHS: An Open Queueing Network Model for material Handling System Analysis

Proceedings of the International 1984 ASME Conference on Modelling and Simulation , 1984 (R. Graves, J. Smith)

The Material Handling Problem Using Queueing Networks: A Case Study

IIE Proceedings , 1983 , Louisville

Working papers

Education

  • Habilitation a diriger des recherches (Qualified Research Supervisor), Operations Management, Université de Nantes - France
  • Ph.D. in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA
  • Master of Science in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA
  • Engineer in IEOR, Massachusetts University - USA

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2023- Emeritus Professor HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Advisory Board Member of the African Research Center (ARC) Research Advisory Panel
  • Member, INFORMS, AIM, DSI, EUROMA, IEOM, EURO
  • Research Committee Member, European Logistics Association (ELA), Brussels
  • RDE CEMS
  • Institut Doctoral Paris Tech

Editorial activities

  • Referee for IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Interfaces, IEEE Transactions on Automation and Cybernetics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Management Mathematics, etc...

    • Conference organisation

  • 2001- Organizer of IFG Logistics seminar (CEMS) (in coll. with A. Garreau)
  • 1999 and 2000 - Organizer of International Annual Conference, Network of International Business Schools (NIBS), Rennes

    • Awards & honors

    • 1979 1979 Valedictorian (IEOR)
    • 1979 Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering Honor Society)
    • 1979 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)