PhD Seminar "Modelling in Supply Chain Management" (8-12 Dec. 2025)

The course starts by discussing current supply chain design and transportation challenges, and it examines the decisions related to production-distribution facilities, transportation means, and externalization decisions. It then gradually introduces a modelling framework that can be used to optimize network structures, starting with basic design problems. Finally, transportation means and route choice, capacity planning issues, supply chain design problems under uncertainty are then examined. The model-based design approach is supported with appropriate computer-aided analysis and modelling tools.

Walid KLIBI, obtained his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Design at Laval University’s Business School in Canada, in 2009. He holds since 2020 a habilitation degree in Applied Mathematics at University of Bordeaux in France. Since 2011, he is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at Kedge Business School (France), and a member of the Center of Excellence in Supply Chain (CESIT) of Kedge Business School. He was the director of the CESIT between 2015 and 2019. He is currently a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, and at Africa Business School - UM6P. His research work focuses on Supply Chain design, resilience, omnichannel distribution, and urban logistics, carried out in partnership with several international companies such as Sephora, ID Logistics, Groupe La Poste, South Shore, Johnson & Johnson, Airbus Atlantic, Lectra and Sanofi. He is also co-author of more than 30 articles in international academic and professional journals and a book, which is intended for an academic and professional audience. Most of his work is carried out in collaboration with affiliated schools and international colleagues. He is involved in teaching activities since 2005 at Laval University and from 2011 at KEDGE BS. He is especially participating to teaching within the ISLI master programs, the Program Grande Ecole (Supply Chain and Entrepreneurship Tracks) and the MBA program. He is
regularly invited to deliver courses with partner universities in Europe and Africa, such as IHEC (Tunisia), RANEPA (Russia), Kuhne Logistics University (Germany), and the LEARN Programme in Africa by the Kühne Foundation. He designed and run several graduate and undergraduate courses in Business Analytics, Statistics, Optimisation, Supply chain Design and Planning, Distribution Networks, and Urban Logistics. He is also involved to design and run executive training, case studies and business games with private organizations such as Sephora, Orange Group, Groupe OCP and Geodis.

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