Industrial Engineering Applications in Emerging Countries

The second volume of a three-volume series on global logistics management, this book focuses on recent developments and implementations of operations research techniques on selected logistic problems in emerging countries. The book covers topics ranging from quality management in pharmaceutical supply chains to risk analysis of maritime ports and identifies quality management practices that impact supply chain performance using empirical data from pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in Pakistan. It provides case studies and discusses the application of IE tools.

Table of Contents

Quality Management in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: Developing-Country Perspective
Risk Analysis and Efficient Logistics for Maritime Ports and Waterways in Qatar
Combinatorial Auctions in Turkish Day-Ahead Electricity Markets
Simulation-Based Inventory Control in a Chemical Industry
Hand Torque Strength in Industry: A Critical Review
Optimization of Traffic Flow on Kuwait's Roads and Highways
Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis of Production Lines in Kuwait's Petroleum Sector
Simulation and Analysis of Izmir's Metro Transportation System
Productivity Improvement Studies in a Process Industry: A Case Study
Modeling Inventory Dynamics: The Case of Frenudco
Author Index
Subject Index

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