Mustapha Ouhimmou

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• Ph.D. M.Sc. Eng.
• Full Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure

Effective ground transportation modes linkage with the seaport plays a crucial role in facilitating smooth cargo movement from marine transportation mode to the inland areas and vice versa. Unlike road transportation, rail linkage is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly option. Inadequate sea rail connectivity within the seaport hampers ca...

Sea-rail intermodal transportation around the globe faces complex challenges that affect the satisfaction of shippers' needs. An efficient cargo flow between the port and its hinterland depends particularly on efficient connectivity between the seaport and rail. Sea-rail intermodal can be a cost-efficient and green alternative to unimodal road tran...

1. Metaheuristics for industry 4.0 2. Multi-agent systems for solving combinatorial optimization problems 3. Decarbonizing Short Food Supply Chains 4. Models and Algorithms for electric mobility 5. Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: A Paradigm for Global Transformation 6. Lean and Analytical Approaches in Urban Logistics and Supply Chain 4....

Order picking is a critical and labour-intensive warehouse management operation that involves removing items from storage locations to fulfil customer orders. This paper analyses a new order-picking problem based on the real case of a Canadian shoe manufacturer characterised by a warehouse with random storage, where different product types can be a...

The quality of the production process is the biggest concern of a company to retain their clients and be competitive on the market. In the wood production industry, the wood moisture content is one of the most important criteria to define the final quality, price, and reliability of the lumbers. After the trees have been sawn into lumbers, the latt...

An important strategy used by two-location firms is lateral transshipment which allows sharing the inventory between the locations to reduce the impact of shortages. Transshipment can particularly be appealing as a policy used between unreliable production facilities as it can reduce the effects of these uncertainties. We study a manufacturing syst...

Production control policies have been studied in the literature for different types of unreliable manufacturing systems. But only few have been addressed to the unreliable manufacturer-retailer systems. We consider the integrated production and delivery control for an unreliable manufacturing system and multiple retailers. The retailers, supplied b...

Seaports are considered gateways for international maritime trade. The flow of trade and the size of containerships have been growing exponentially in the last two decades, and as a result, the exchange of containers has increased dramatically. In consequence, adapting container terminal designs is required in order to confront these new challenges...

A sharing logistics platform for less-than-truckloads could increase efficiency in city pickup and last-mile deliveries under time window constraints by pairing (matching) truck bidders and last-mile logistics requesters. The platform will propose new tours based on localization data, travel time and time-window constraints; it operates a matching...

For many years now, it has become evident that the forest sector is a vital contributor to economic, environmental and social development of nations who are privileged to benefit from this precious natural resource. Due to the shift of global market from conventional forest commodities and an ongoing increase in the demand for new advanced bioprodu...

Manufacturing systems are one of the largest emitters of carbon emissions. Governments enforce environmental regulations to control and reduce such emissions. Cap-and-trade is one of the most efficient and widely-used regulations in which a tradable initial allowance is given to each emitter to sell or buy in the carbon market. In this study, we ad...

The intermodal container terminal is considered the hearth of intermodal transportation systems, where different transportation modes meet to exchange containers. Using intermodal transportation efficiently reduces the handling procedures and relieves congestion at every transfer site. The efficient container terminal operations play a significant...

Waste management Vehicle routing problem End-of-life vehicle Mixed-integer programming Loading pickup sequences a b s t r a c t Reverse logistics management of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) is increasingly focusing on practical solutions for getting additional value from products at the end of their life. As automotive is one of the fastest-growing s...

We consider the problem of tactical forest management over a 5-year horizon with yearly periods. The main decisions made consider which harvest areas to cut in each period, the flow of timber from an area to each wood-processing mill to satisfy its annual demand, and which roads to build to access a harvest area not connected to the existing road n...

Forest supply chain planning must deal with many natural disturbance uncertainties such as fires, insects, and windthrow. One important consideration is wood infestation by invasive insects, as it causes environmental and economic harm. An example of invasive insects in Eastern Canada is the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens)), whic...

As the main cause of environmental problems, GHG emissions generated by industrial activities are necessary to be reduced. In order to meet strict environmental regulations and make production cleaner, a large number of enterprises operating with high-emitting machines (HEMs) are gradually investing in low-emitting machines (LEMs) instead of undert...

The intermodal transportation system plays a pivotal role in a global supply chain. Despite the benefits of intermodal transportation, it still has negative impacts, which are associated with congestion and emission. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission is highly associated with the transportation industry, and the share of the transportation sector is gr...

Integrating new products into an existing value chain network is a crucial step in a company's strategy to remain competitive. Businesses are evolving in an economy deeply affected by the global development through unstable markets, changes in trade agreements, increased preoccupations with land use and pollution, and technological advancements. In...

This paper addresses a two-stage stochastic model for eco-efficient reverse logistics network design (RLND). The goal of this optimization model is to maximize the expected profit and minimize landfilling activities to give more incentive for materials recycling. The model considers a source separation option that allows the separation of the colle...

The forest industry is transforming itself in order to foster new product development by utilizing forest biomass. However, market instability of all types of forestry products has significant impact on the transformation approach of the industry. Smooth transformation highly depends on stabilizing the current state of the network. In this regard,...

This paper presents a two-stage stochastic programming model for reverse logistics network design (RLND) under uncertainty with dynamic supply sources’ locations. The primary objective of the optimization model is to maximize the expected profit generated by selling recycled materials to the secondary markets and to make the landfilling option less...

This paper presents a two-stage stochastic programming model for reverse logistics network design (RLND) under uncertainty with dynamic supply sources’ locations. The primary objective of the optimization model is to maximize the expected profit generated by selling recycled materials to the secondary markets and to make the landfilling option less...

The design of a supply chain network helps companies in dealing with variability and uncertain evolution of demand over time. An efficient supply chain network may contribute to fulfill the customers’ demands in a quick and least cost manner. Therefore, it is important to solve the problem dealt with in this article concerning the design of the dis...

For the growing competition in the modern sophisticated business environment, there is an increasing trend to launch new products or to improve the quality of the end products in order to attract more consumers. But the rising costs or uncertainties for this innovation require firms to collaborate with each other. In this paper, we study how a reta...

In recent years, inclusion of spatial considerations in forest operations management has attracted great attention of both researchers and practitioners. In the province of Quebec, Canada, forest product companies subcontract harvesting operations to contractors. One of the challenges faced by the harvesting teams relates to moving the harvesting m...

The agro-food industry wastes tons of oil and grease not suitable for immediate consumption. Their collection mostly relies on the experience of managers and this results in inaccurate visits by truck drivers and operations teams. Indeed, the measurement of by-products waste is complex and thus information is imprecise, making the collecting operat...

This paper addresses the reverse logistics network (RLN) design problem under environmental policies targeting recycled wood materials from the construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) industry. The main objective is to determine the location and the capacities of the sorting facilities to ensure compliance with the new regulation and prevent...

In Canada, most of the forests are publicly owned and forest products companies depend on timber licenses issued by the provincial governments for their wood supplies. According to the Sustainable Forest Development Act effective in the province of Quebec since April 2013, the government is responsible for harvest area selection and timber allocati...

The Canadian forest industry is facing several challenges including high fibre cost, decline in commodity profitability, and low investment levels at relatively old manufacturing plants. To enable transformation of the industry, innovations are needed to develop value-added products and to shift to an efficient integrated value chain. In this regar...

This paper proposes a new approach to balance the loads in a network of walk-in clinics (WiCs) by dispersing patients based on patients’ preferences, emergency and geographical locations. WiCs accept patients without an appointment and they are flexible in serving last-minute patients and non-severe emergencies. WiCs are usually geographically dist...

Medical assistance is offered by walk-in clinics (WC). These clinics must keep track of patients’ turn in line. Some private companies offer an extra follow-up service to WC patients, which notifies them when their consultation approaches, so patients can use their free time elsewhere than in the waiting room. This paper aims to develop an applied...

When supply disruption occurs following major disasters, many supply chains tend to breakdown due to stock-outs or lost sales and take a long time to recover. However, by keeping one or more emergency sources of supply, some supply chains continue to function smoothly, satisfying consumer demand even after a major disaster. In this study, we use th...

This paper presents a systematic literature review on sustainable supply chain design and planning models in the field of Operations Research (OR). The goal is to analyse to which extent economic, environmental and social aspects are integrated into mathematical models. The focus is drawn on sustainahility performance criteria considered, and the w...

This paper addresses the problem of the selection of harvest areas and wood allocation to mills at the tactical planning (5 years planning horizon) at the forest management unit and regional levels. Simple approaches to weight different targets (multi-objective optimization) and include spatial aspects (reduced spatial dispersion) have been develop...

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) for the “datacenter location“ problem. This model defines the datacenter locations under Internet services demands and, at the same time, ensures a low energy consumption of information technology (IT) equipment. The data center location has a direct impac...

In this paper, we study the problem of procurement and manufacturing planning under environmental regulations. This work introduces an integer linear programming model (ILP) considering supply chain purchasing and manufacturing tactical decisions under the compensation regulation. The proposed model allows the use of clean production technologies t...

Uncertainty in biomass supply is a critical issue that needs to be considered in the production planning of bioenergy plants. Incorporating uncertainty in supply chain planning models provides improved and stable solutions. In this paper, we first reformulate a previously developed non-linear programming model for optimization of a forest biomass p...

This research addresses the problem of tactical planning in a lumber supply chain. It proposes a framework for incorporating together data from two software, which simulate harvesting operations and lumber production, into an optimization module called LogiOpt. Using this framework, decisions regarding harvesting, transportation, wood allocation an...

Shermag Inc. is a vertically integrated furniture company with business units across the supply chain from the forest to the final customer. During the last decade, Shermag has been losing market share to low-cost Asian manufacturers. To reduce the procurement and other significant costs of Shermag's raw material (wood), which constitute a major co...

We study the supply chain tactical planning problem of an integrated furniture company located in the Province of Québec, Canada. The paper presents a mathematical model for tactical planning of a subset of the supply chain. The decisions concern procurement, inventory, outsourcing and demand allocation policies. The goal is to define manufacturing...

In this paper, we address the problem of defining the production campaigns on a paper machine. Each campaign is of a fixed duration (cycle time) and produces batches (lot sizes) of all or a set of the products. This paper presents a real case study discussing a specific lot sizing problem where a predetermined production sequence must be maintained...