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.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Quality Management in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains Developing Country Perspective
Chapter 2 : Risk Analysis and Efficient Logistics for Maritime Ports and Waterways in Qatar
Chapter 3 : Combinatorial Auctions in Turkish Day Ahead Electricity Market
Chapter 4 : Simulation Based Inventory Control in a Chemical Industry
Chapter 5 : Hand Torque Strength In Industry A Critical Review
Chapter 6 : Optimization of the Traffic Flow on Kuwait Roads and Highways
Chapter 7 : Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Production Lines in Kuwait’s Petroleum Sector
Chapter 8 : Simulation & Analysis of Izmir Metro Transportation System
Chapter 9 : Productivity Improvement Studies in a Process Industry - A Case Study
Chapter 10 : Modeling Inventory Dynamics the Case of Freundco

Index