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Profile

College / Department
Teaching areas
Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management, Project Management, Engineering Economics
Research areas
Inventory control, production planning and scheduling, supply chain management, maintenance management, and project management
Education
PhD, Industrial Engineering/inventory Management, Cornell University, United States, 1988
Bachelor, Industrial Engineering, National School of Engineering in Tunis, 1984
Professional experience
Assistant Prof., Associate Prof., Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 1988 - 2006
Memberships
Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), September 1985
Contact
+971 6 515 2938
Dr. Moncer Hariga
Professor
PhD, Cornell University, United States
Moncer Hariga's research interests are design and analysis of inventory systems, supply chain management, and applications of operations research in manufacturing and service organizations. His research papers have been cited in books, PhD theses, and scientific journals. He is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management and the International Journal of Computer and Operations Research. He has served as a consultant for several companies in the region.
Publications
Sami Freihat, Moncer Hariga And Rami Asa'd. Cost and sustainability optimization of desalinated water supply chains, Operations And Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2025
Moncer Hariga, Rami Asa'd And Bayan Hamdan. The Truck Selection Problem under Consolidated Shipment Policy: Models and Extensions, International Journal Of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics
Afef Saihi, Mohamed Ben-daya, Moncer Hariga And Rami Asa'd. A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Generative AI-Based Chatbot Adoption among Students and Educators in Higher Education, Computers And Education: Artificial Intelligence, December 2024
Afef Saihi, Mohamed Ben-daya And Moncer Hariga. The moderating role of technology proficiency and academic discipline in AI-chatbot adoption within higher education: Insights from a PLS-SEM analysis, Education And Information Technologies, September 2024
Afef Saihi, Mohamed Ben-daya And Moncer Hariga. The Moderating Role of Technology Proficiency and Academic Discipline in AI-Chatbot Adoption within Higher Education: Insights from a PLS-SEM Analysis, Education And Information Technologies, September 2024
Moncer Hariga, Rami Asa'd And Mohamed Ben-daya. Multi-Retailer Joint Replenishment Problem under Different Carbon Regulation Policies, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, June 2024
Shaza Hammoud, Rami Asa'd, Mohamed Ben-daya And Moncer Hariga. Simulation-Based Optimization of Logistics Decisions under Horizontal Collaboration Following the Can-Order Policy, Operations And Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, June 2024
Moncer Hariga. Incorporating transportation costs into the single and multiple items newsvendor problems, Plos One
Mahmoud Ibnouf, Moncer Hariga, Naif Darwish, Mohamed Ben-daya And Rami Asad. Integrated Strategic and Tactical Optimization of Water Supply Chains, Operational Research In Engineering Sciences: Theory And Applications, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024
Moncer Hariga, Rami Asa'd And Mohamed Ben-daya. A Single-Vendor Multi-Retailer VMI Partnership under Individual Carbon-Cap Constraints, Ieee Acess, May 2023
Hessa Almatroushi, Moncer Hariga And Rami Asa'd. Integrated Material Ordering and Multi-Resource Leveling Problem with Time Varying Resource Profile
Moncer Hariga, Mohamed Ben-daya, Rami Asa'd And Afef Saihi. Coordination of closed loop supply chains through buyback contract, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal
Kavitha Gurrala And Moncer Hariga. Key Food Supply Chain Challenges: A Review of the Literature and Research Gaps, Operations And Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, November 2022
Moncer Hariga, Rami Afif As'ad And Mohamed Ben-daya. Vendor managed inventory coordination under contractual storage agreement and carbon regulation policies, Ieee Access
Armin Arminpour, Zied Bahroun And Moncer Hariga. Cyclic manufacturing and remanufacturing in a closed-loop supply chain, Sustainable Production And Consumption, 2021
Rami Asa'd, Moncer Hariga And Abdulrahim Shamayleh. Sustainable Dynamic Lot Sizing Models for Cold Products under Carbon Cap Policy, Computers And Industrial Engineering, 1 November 2020
Moncer Hariga, Hessa , Rami And Abdelrahmen . The multi resource leveling and materials procurement problem: an integrated approach, Engineering, Construction And Architectural Management, May 2020
Moncer Hariga, Zied Bahroun And Salbi Babekian. Operational and environmental decisions for a two-stage supply chain under vendor managed consignment inventory partnership, International Journal Of Production Research, 2019
Abdelrahim Shamayleh, Moncer Hariga, Rami Asa'd And Ali Diabet. Economic and environmental models for cold products with time varying demand, Journal Of Cleaner Production, 1 March 2019
Rami Asa'd, Moncer Hariga And Osama Al-khatib. Two-stage closed loop supply chain models under consignment stock agreement and different procurement strategies, Applied Mathematical Modelling, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
Moncer Hariga, Mehmet Gumus And Abdelkader Daghfous. Storage constrained vendor managed inventory models with unequal shipment frequencies, Omega, 2014
Moncer Hariga, Mehmet Gumus, Abdelkader Daghfous And Sk Goyal. A vendor managed inventory model under contractual storage agreement, Computers & Operations Research, 2013
Moncer Hariga And Sameh El-sayegh. Cost Optimization Model for the Multiresource Leveling Problem with Allowed Activity Splitting, Journal Of Construction Engineering And Management, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2011
Conference Presentations
On the joint optimization of transportation and lot sizing decisions for a cold product with time varying demand, 48th International Conference On Computers And Industrial Engineering, December 2018
Grants and sponsorships
Grant, Digital transformation of maintenance: enablers, barriers and a framework for implementation, American University of Sharjah, June 2022 - May 2025
Grant, Towards Sustainable Maintenance Planning: A Conceptual Framework and Modeling-based Decision-making Approaches, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2023
Grant, Optimization of Integrated Water Supply Chain Planning with Technical, Economic, and Environmental Considerations, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2019 - 31 December 2021
Awards and Honors
Best Paper Award, Seventh International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, 6 April 2017
Award of research excellence for the best 2006 research work in water conservation, AL-MARAII NATIONAL, Saudi Arabia, 4 January 2006
\ Citation of Excellence\ for a 1999 paper published in the European Journal of Operational reseach, ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, 1 January 1999
Best paper Award:, Institute of Industrial Engineering Transactions, 1 March 1996
Best 1988 Ph.D thesis in the School of OR&IE, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 30 June 1988