College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Researches Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The research group is dedicated to navigate the complexities of today’s global marketplace and harness the key elements for developing resilient, responsive and efficient supply chain ecosystems while considering economic, social and environmental sustainability. The integration of key elements will enable organizations to stay ahead in rapidly evolving business landscape, by fostering innovation and sustainable growth in the realm of logistics and supply chain management.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG # 8: Decent work & Economic growth
  • SDG # 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
  • SDG # 12: Responsible Consumption & Production
  • SDG # 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
  • SDG # 17: Partnership for Goals

Objectives

  • Identification of emerging issues in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Development of advanced management skills and the ability to use data to make good business decisions
  • Adjustment of supply chain to operate at peak performance and achieve business sustainability
  • Optimization of supply chain, focus on establishing robust demand forecasting and planning processes, cultivating strategic supplier relationships for resilience, and leveraging advanced technologies such as data analytics and automation.
  • Prioritization of sustainability initiatives to align with evolving environmental standards and consumer expectations, ensuring long-term success in today’s competitive business landscape
  • Minimization of waste in supply chain management including waste of resources, money, labor hours, delivery times, etc.
  • Improvement of logistics and transportation with regard to placing orders, sending packages, transporting items and warehouses.
  • Reduction in operational costs including purchasing, producing and transporting etc.
  • Improvement of coordination among all business stakeholders and fundamental drivers of supply chain management
  • Provision of customer care with promoting responsiveness, creativity, pricing and delivery

Research Funding

  • Project No. 16062, “Integrated Decision Support System for optimizing Public Procurement process in Pakistan”, worth Rs. 11156600/-, National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) Higher Education Commission (HEC) in 2022.

Group Head

  • Dr Afshan Naseem

Other Members

  • Dr Yasir Ahmad
  • Dr Shujaat Ali
  • Dr Asjad Shahzad

Research Collaborations

  • University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
  • King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  • ENSAM Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Metz, France
  • Business Vertical, Torrens University, Australia
  • Research Fellow, in INTI International University, Malaysia

Research Scholar Achievement

  • PhD Scholar “Muhammad Abdullah Khalid” (under supervision of Dr Afshan Naseem), achieved the fully funded scholarship under International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan for his research work at The University of Western Australia (Ranked 72 in the world QS 2024), Australia.

Postgraduate Research Theses

PhD Theses – Under supervision of Dr Afshan Naseem

  • E-procurement: Integrated Framework for Strategic Lead time management in Public Procurement
  • Impact of the acquisition price in a Close Loop Supply Chain with a perspective of trade-in program
  • Predictive Modelling for Operations & Supply Chain Risks Analysis in Tertiary Hospitals
  • Designing Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Model: Moving towards Pharma 4.0
  • Development of a predictive model for contractors’ evaluation in public procurement of construction works

MS Theses – Under supervision of Dr Afshan Naseem

  • Optimizing Supplier Selection and Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry through a Hierarchical Fuzzy Inference System (HFIS) with Emphasis on Sustainability and HSE Criteria
  • Analysis of multi-product pharmaceutical supply chain network under disruption risks considering product perishability.
  • Formulating an optimization framework using MOMILP for risk analysis and resilience: Application to pharmaceutical supply chains
  • Sustainable multi-tier optimization in SCM: Supplier Selection, Inventory Management and Route Planning
  • Designing an Evaluation System for Public Procurement Process
  • Green Supply Chain Learning Model for Sustainable Performance in Manufacturing Sector
  • Green and Resilient Supplier Selection Model and Inventory Management under uncertainty for Cement Industry (2024)
  • Optimization of Downstream Oil Supply Chain with respect to transport cost using Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate disruption scenarios
  • Impact of Supplier Integration, Customer Integration and Internal Integration on Competitive Performance and Customer Satisfaction with Supply Chain Agility and Financial Supply Chain Management Practices
  • Self-Industrialization versus Outsourcing: AHP-Based Model for Decision Process
  • Service Level based Multiple Suppliers Selection with Suppliers Capacity Constraint

MS Thesis – Under supervision of Dr Yasir Ahmad

  • Optimizing Multistage Supply Chain for Products or Services Distribution

MS Theses – Under supervision of Dr Shujaat Ali

  • Impact of emerging technologies on inventory management in healthcare sector: Applications and Challenges

MS Theses – Under supervision of Dr Asjad Shahzad

  • Optimizing the procurement of materials to reduce the time and cost in cable industry.

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