Wajdi TRABELSI

Supply Chain Management and Information Systems
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Biography

Wajdi TRABELSI is a lecturer-researcher at ICN Business School and has been a member of the Supply Chain Management and Information Systems Department since January 2014. He conducts his research activities within the LGIPM laboratory (Laboratoire de Génie Industriel, de Production et de Maintenance) in Metz.

He holds an engineering degree in Electromechanics and Production from ENIS (Tunisia), followed by a Research Master’s degree in Industrialization from ENSAM Metz. He earned his PhD from the University of Lorraine in 2012 with a dissertation focused on the scheduling of flexible production systems. From 2009 to December 2013, he performed his teaching and research activities at the University of Lorraine.

His research focuses on the development of optimization methods for supply chain management and the organization of production and maintenance systems. His teaching areas include production scheduling, industrial logistics, quantitative methods, and computing management.

Degrees and Training

Year Title Institution Country
2012 Doctorat en Génie informatique, Automatique, Traitement du signal. Université de Lorraine France
2009 Master of Science in CIRD. Specialty : Conception, Industrialization and Innovation École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) France
2008 Electromechanical engineer. Specialty: Production École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS) Tunisia

Courses Taught

Year Title Country Institution
2025 Mathematics France ICN Business School
2024 Finance et data France ICN Business School
2024 Quantitative Methods France ICN Business School
2024 Mathematics France ICN Business School
2024 Outils d'Analyse Quantitative France ICN Business School
2023 Achat et SCM France ICN Business School
2023 Simulation de Gestion France ICN Business School
2022 Supply Chain Management & Sustainable Development France ICN Business School
2022 Pilotage de la production et qualité France ICN Business School
2019 Programmation VBA (IRE) France ICN Business School
2019 Quantitatives Methods France ICN Business School
2018 Quantitatives Methods France ICN Business School
2017 Business Computing France ICN Business School
2014 Creative Business Days 2 France ICN Business School
2014 Logistique, Supply Chain Management France ICN Business School
2014 Informatique de gestion 1 (Word, Excel, VBA) France ICN Business School
2010 Organisation Industrielle France Université de Lorraine
2009 Scheduling and Industriel Management France Université de Lorraine
2009 Études industrielles des installations France IUT de Thionville
2009 France Université de Lorraine
2009 France Université de Lorraine

Research Interests

  • Operations Research
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management

Publications

Year Type Reference
2025 Journal article SAUVEY, C., W. TRABELSI, “Decision Support Mathematical Model for a Production Line Design in a Context of High Demand”, Computational Economics, November 2025, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 4081-4106
2025 Journal article HOLGUIN JIMENEZ, S., W. TRABELSI, C. SAUVEY, “Multi-objective optimization for permutation flow shop rescheduling problems with mixed blocking constraints”, International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, August 2025, vol. 12, no. 1
2025 Proceedings from scientific conference HOLGUIN JIMENEZ, S., W. TRABELSI, C. SAUVEY, “An Improved Hybrid NSGA-II Integrating Pareto-based VND for Multi-objective Rescheduling of Blocking Flowshops” in 11th International Conference on Optimization and Applications (ICOA), IEEE, 2025, Morocco
2024 Journal article TLILI, L., A. CHELBI, R. GHARYANI, W. TRABELSI, “Optimal Preventive Maintenance Policy for Equipment Rented under Free Leasing as a Contributor to Sustainable Development”, Sustainability , May 2024, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 3860
2024 Journal article HOLGUIN JIMENEZ, S., W. TRABELSI, C. SAUVEY, “Multi-Objective Production Rescheduling: A Systematic Literature Review”, Mathematics, October 2024, vol. 12, no. 20, pp. 3176
2023 Book Chapter BISTORIN, O., W. TRABELSI, “Piloter la production et la qualité” in Management des entreprises – De l’élaboration de la stratégie au développement de la transversalité., C. Bertin & J. Koehl (Dir) Ed., ELLIPSES, 2023
2023 Book Chapter BISTORIN, O., W. TRABELSI, “Optimiser les flux logistiques” in Management des entreprises – De l’élaboration de la stratégie au développement de la transversalité., C. Bertin & J. Koehl (Dir) Ed., ELLIPSES, pp. 129-140, 2023
2023 Proceedings from scientific conference GOUIAA-MTIBAA, A., S. DELLAGI, A. CHELBI, W. TRABELSI, “Integrated Maintenance-Quality policy considering variable production cost” in CIGI Qualita MOSIM, UQTR Collection numérique, 2023, Canada
2022 Journal article ABDERRAHMANE, F., S. BOUSLIKHANE, Z. HAJEJ, S. DELLAGI, W. TRABELSI, “An improved integrated maintenance/spare parts management for wind turbine systems with adopting switching concept”, Energy Reports, November 2022, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 936-955
2022 Journal article CHEKOUBI, Z., W. TRABELSI, N. SAUER, I. MAJDOULINE, “The Integrated Production-Inventory-Routing Problem with Reverse Logistics and Remanufacturing: A Two-Phase Decomposition Heuristic”, Sustainability , October 2022, vol. 14, no. 20, pp. 13563
2022 Proceedings from scientific conference JULIAN, M., S. DELLAGI, G. VOKAS, W. TRABELSI, “Energy Efficiency Improvement Potential for Sustainable Development”, American Institut of Physics Conference Proceedings, vol. 2437, no. 1, pp. 20199, 2022
2022 Proceedings from scientific conference CHEKOUBI, Z., N. ETTAHIRY, S. DELLAGI, W. TRABELSI, I. MAJDOULINE, “Integrated Production and Maintenance Scheduling with Environmental and Operational Considerations”, IFAC MIM, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 1369-1374, 2022, France
2022 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference ETTAHIRY, N., W. TRABELSI, Z. CHEKOUBI, S. DELLAGI, “Optimal Management of Production and Maintenance Actions According to an Integrated Scheduling Strategy with Operational Considerations” in International Conference of Information Technologies Smart Industrial Systems, 2022, Paris, France
2022 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference ABDERRAHMANE, F., S. BOUSLIKHANE, W. TRABELSI, Z. HAJEJ, S. DELLAGI, “Integrated Production and Maintenance Scheduling with Environmental and Operational Considerations” in Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability, 2022, Metz, France
2021 Journal article CHAABANE, K., J. SCHUTZ, S. DELLAGI, W. TRABELSI, “Analytical evaluation of TPM performance based on an economic criterion”, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, April 2021, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 413-429
2021 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference CHEKOUBI, Z., W. TRABELSI, N. SAUER, I. MAJDOULINE, “A Closed-loop supply chain with remanufacturing of EOL products and environmental considerations” in PROLOG, 2021 Coauthorspresented
2020 Journal article DELLAGI, S., W. TRABELSI, Z. HAJEJ, N. REZG, “Integrated maintenance/spare parts management for manufacturing system according to variable production rate impacting the system degradation”, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, March 2020, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 72–84
2020 Journal article SAUVEY, C., W. TRABELSI, N. SAUER, “Mathematical Model and Evaluation Function for Conflict-free Warranted Makespan Minimization of Mixed Blocking Constraint Jobshop Problems”, Mathematics, January 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 121-139
2020 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., Z. CHEKOUBI, N. SAUER, I. MAJDOULINE, “The Integrated Production-Inventory-Routing Problem with remanufacturing under carbon cap-and-trade”, IEEE, 2020, Morocco
2019 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference CHEKOUBI, Z., N.SAUER, W.TRABELSI, “The Integrated Production-Inventory-Routing Problem of EOL products with simultaneous delivery and pickup” in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport, 2019, Marrakech, Morocco
2019 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference SAUVEY, C., W.TRABELSI, “Mathematical modelling of investment in new production means” in PROLOG, 2019, Metz, France
2019 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference CHEKOUBI, Z., I.MAJDOULINE, W.TRABELSI, N.SAUER, “Logistics Distribution Routing Optimization of terroir products for solidarity shelves : A case study of a group of cooperatives and tourist establishments in rural areas of Souss Massa region” in PROLOG, 2019, Metz, France
2018 Proceedings from scientific conference CHEKOUBI, Z., W.TRABELSI, N.SAUER, “The Integrated Production-Inventory-Routing problem in the context of Reverse Logistics: the case of collecting and remanufacturing of EOL products” in IEEE 4thInternational Conference on Optimization and Applications, IEEE, 2018, Mohammedia, Morocco
2017 Journal article DELLAGI, S., A.CHELBI, W.TRABELSI, “Joint integrated production-maintenance policy with production plan smoothing through production rate control”, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, January 2017, vol. 42, pp. 262-270
2017 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference PACHECO OSORIO, A., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, W.TRABELSI, “Heuristics for hybrid flowshop problem solving with non-identical parallel machines” 7th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM). 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany
2015 Proceedings from scientific conference SAUVEY, C., N.SAUER, W.TRABELSI, “Job-shop scheduling with mixed blocking constraints between operations” in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing., Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences (MCO), vol. 360, pp. 331-342, 2015, Metz, France
2015 Proceedings from scientific conference SAUVEY, C., W.TRABELSI, “Hybrid job shop scheduling with mixed blocking constraints between operations” in Emerging Technologies And Factory Automation., International Conference on
Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation (IEEE EFTA)
, vol. 2, pp. 1041-1048, 2015, Luxembourg
2013 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “A genetic algorithm for hybrid flowshop problem with mixed blocking constraints” in Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control., IFAC MIM, 2013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2013 Communications in an Academical or Professional conference TRABELSI, W., “Heuristiques pour le flowshop hybride avec blocage mixte” Conférence de la Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et Aide à la Décision (ROADEF). 2013, Troyes, France
2012 Journal article TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “Heuristics and metaheuristics for mixed blocking constraints flowshop scheduling problems”, Computers and Operations Research, 2012, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2520-2527
2012 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “Mathematical Model and Lower Bound for Hybrid Flowshop Problem with Mixed Blocking Constraints” in Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing., INCOM, vol. 14, pp. 1475-1480, 2012, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “Complexity and Mathematical Model for Flowshop Problem Subject to Different Types of Blocking Constraint” in 8th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control., IFAC, vol. 18, pp. 8183-8188, 2011, Milan, Italy
2011 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “Mathematical Model and Lower Bound for Flowshop Problem With Mixed Blocking Constraints” in Innovative Approaches and T echnologies for Networked Manufacturing Enterprises Management., Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM), pp. 103-112, 2011, Metz, France
2010 Proceedings from scientific conference TRABELSI, W., C.SAUVEY, N.SAUER, “Heuristic Methods for problems with blocking constraints solving jobshop scheduling” in Evaluation and optimization of innovative production systems of goods and services., International Conference of Modeling and Simulation, vol. 3, pp. 1365-1373, 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia