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IUE LOGISTICIANS ON THEIR WAY TO USA
Izmir University of Economics, Department of Logistics Management became a finalist at the annual Case Competition organized by INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) which is designed to encourage the creation, dissemination, and classroom use of new cases in operations research and the management sciences.
The case study titled, “Shipment Consolidation and Dispatching Problem at Ekol Logistics”, prepared by academicians of Department of Logistics Management, Asst. Prof. Dr. Özgür Özpeynirci, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhittin Demir, Research Assistant Sinem Tokcaer, and graduate İrem Çelik, will be presented at INFORMS 2016 conference that will be held in Tennessee, USA in November. IUE Department of Logistics Management team who got invited to the conference will make their presentation and the winner will be announced after the presentations.
The team, who gave information about their case study, stated that it was used as part of “LOG 302 Logistic Planning and Modeling II” course in 2015-2016 academic year also, and got enriched with the contributions of students of the department.