Overview
Focuses on emerging countries in Latin America where companies do need basic research to improve their competitiveness
Contributes to better understanding of production system in emerging countries
Illustrates how different tools as production system analysis, optimization, statistics, among others
Help to improve the behavior of production and service systems
Provides insight to the enormous mixture of production problems in emerging countries
Encourages researchers to work in projects that involve developing countries
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 papers)
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Operation Management
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Logistics Planning
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Production Planning and Scheduling
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Case Study in SMES
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gonzalo Mejía is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá Colombia. He teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is also the Director of the Production and Logistics Research Group of the same Department. He obtained his Bs and MSc degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes and his PhD degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Lehigh University (USA). His main research interests are production planning, scheduling and logistics. He has published his works on important journals and on a number of conferences worldwide. He is Board Member of the International Foundation of Production Research (IFPR) and active member of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).
Nubia Velasco, Ph.D. Holds a Ph.D. (2006) in Applied Production and Automation (in French, Automatique et Productique Appliquée at the Université Nantes in France. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes. Her research interests include evolutionary optimization, metaheuristics and optimization applied to logistics, and particularly, to the vehicle routing problem and health care systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Production Systems and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Countries: Best Practices
Book Subtitle: Selected papers from the International Conference on Production Research (ICPR)
Editors: Gonzalo Mejía, Nubia Velasco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-26004-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26003-2Published: 07 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44520-0Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-26004-9Published: 31 May 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 282
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design