Industrial engineering applications in emerging countries

Content: 
Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Introduction; 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 Markets; Chapter 4: Simulation-Based Inventory Control in a Chemical Industry; Chapter 5: Hand Torque Strength in Industry : A Critical Review; Chapter 6: Optimization of Traffic Flow on Kuwait\'s Roads and Highways. Chapter 7: Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis of Production Lines in Kuwait\'s Petroleum SectorChapter 8: Simulation and Analysis of Izmir\'s Metro Transportation System; Chapter 9: Productivity Improvement Studies in a Process Industry : A Case Study; Chapter 10: Modeling Inventory Dynamics : The Case of Frenudco; Back Cover.
 Abstract:             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