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Background
Banu Yetkin Ekren is a Senior Lecturer of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Previously, Dr Ekren worked as Associate Professor at Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey. She completed her PhD at Unversity of Louisville, KY, USA, in the Department of Industrial Engineering. She was the recipient of the best PhD dissertation award when she graduated in 2009. Her dissertation focused on design and analysis of automated warehouses by using analytical and simulation modelling.
Dr Ekren also completed a one-year postdoctoral research in the period of 2011-2012 for a funded contract project with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), PA, USA. She developed simulation models for the DLA's largest warehouse to improve its operating performance.
Current activities
Dr Ekren's expertise ranges widely from simulation modelling, agent-based modelling, inventory optimization, design and analysis of supply chains, automated warehousing to stochastic modelling. Dr Ekren has published several articles in many reputed international journals and conference proceedings. She has led international funded research projects focusing on design and analysis of smart supply chains as well as automated warehousing subjects. She has been acting as a regular reviewer as well as guest editor for some reputed international journals.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Ekren BY & Arslan B. (2024). A reinforcement learning approach for transaction scheduling in a shuttle‐based storage and retrieval system. International Transactions in Operational Research, 31(1)
- Yetkin Ekren B, Lerher T, Küçükyaşar M & Jerman B. (2024). Cost and performance comparison of tier-captive SBS/RS with a novel AVS/RS/ML. International Journal of Production Research, 62(5)
- Ekren BY, Perotti S, Foresti L & Prataviera L. (2024). Enhancing e-grocery order fulfillment: improving product availability, cost, and emissions in last-mile delivery. Electronic Commerce Research
- Amin-Tahmasbi H, Sadafi S, Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2023). A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network. Annals of Operations Research, 324(1-2)
- Kumar V, Yetkin Ekren B, Wang J, Shah B & Frederico GF. (2023). Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable food supply chains. Journal of Modelling in Management, 18(4)
- Ekren BY, Stylos N, Zwiegelaar J, Turhanlar EE & Kumar V. (2023). Additive manufacturing integration in E-commerce supply chain network to improve resilience and competitiveness. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 122(January)
- Arslan B & Ekren BY. (2023). Transaction selection policy in tier-to-tier SBSRS by using Deep Q-Learning. International Journal of Production Research, 61(21)
- Ekren BY, Kaya B & Küçükyaşar M. (2023). Shuttle-Based Storage and Retrieval Systems Designs from Multi-Objective Perspectives: Total Investment Cost, Throughput Rate and Sustainability. Sustainability, 15(1)
- Joshi S, Sharma M, Ekren BY, Kazancoglu Y, Luthra S, .... (2023). Assessing Supply Chain Innovations for Building Resilient Food Supply Chains: An Emerging Economy Perspective. Sustainability, 15(6)
- Al-Abdelmalek N, Kucukvar M, Onat NC, Fares E, Ayad H, .... (2023). Transforming Challenges into Opportunities for Qatar’s Food Industry: Self-Sufficiency, Sustainability, and Global Food Trade Diversification. Sustainability, 15(7)
- Ada E, Kazancoglu Y, Lafcı Ç, Ekren BY & Çimitay Çelik C. (2023). Identifying the Drivers of Circular Food Packaging: A Comprehensive Review for the Current State of the Food Supply Chain to Be Sustainable and Circular. Sustainability, 15(15)
- Y. Ekren B. (2023). Transaction Processing Policies in a Flexible Shuttle-based Storage and Re-trieval System by Real-time Data Tracking under Agent-based Modelling. International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 8(6)
- Shah B, Kumar V, Yetkin Ekren B & Frederico GF. (2023). Guest editorial: Modelling the business and societal decisions under the impact of COVID-19. Journal of Modelling in Management, 18(4)
- Srivastava DK, Kumar V, Ekren BY, Upadhyay A, Tyagi M, .... (2022). Adopting Industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176(March)
- Kazancoglu Y, Ozbiltekin-Pala M, Sezer MD, Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2022). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains. Sustainability, 14(1)
- Turhanlar EE, Ekren BY & Lerher T. (2022). Autonomous mobile robot travel under deadlock and collision prevention algorithms by agent-based modelling in warehouses. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, Available online 31 October 2022
- Ekren BY, Mangla SK, Turhanlar EE, Kazancoglu Y & Li G. (2021). Lateral inventory share-based models for IoT-enabled E-commerce sustainable food supply networks. Computers & Operations Research, 130
- İzmirli D, Ekren BY, Kumar V & Pongsakornrungsilp S. (2021). Omni-Chanel Network Design towards Circular Economy under Inventory Share Policies. Sustainability, 13(5)
- Jerman B, Ekren BY, Küçükyaşar M & Lerher T. (2021). Simulation-Based Performance Analysis for a Novel AVS/RS Technology with Movable Lifts. Applied Sciences, 11(5)
Conference Papers
- Alessandro V, Mirko T, Sara P, Ekren BY & Reefke H. (2023). Micro-fulfilment Centres in E-Grocery Deliveries
- Foresti L, Perotti S, Ekren BY & Prataviera LB. (2023). E-Grocery Challenges and a Solution Approach from Multi-objective Perspectives
- Kulac O, Ekren BY & Toy AO. (2023). Digital Twins for Decision Making in Supply Chains
- Li W, Ekren BY & Aktas E. (2023). Additive manufacturing in pharmaceutical supply chain
- Güntez B, İşgüzerer G, Güşeç Ç, Özen M, Paldrak M, .... (2022). Storage and Order Picking Process Design for Perishable Foods in a Cold Warehouse
- Erdoğan A, Talı A, Kırcalı B, Günal B, Dedecengiz EN, .... (2022). Parallel Workforce Assignment Problem for Battery Production
- Kaya B, Dural D, Sağer M, Akdoğan M, İldeşler AB, .... (2022). Optimal Inventory Share Policy Search for e-Grocery Food Supply Network
- Ekren BY, Chattopadhyay R & Kumar V. (2022). Multi-objective Inventory Optimization Problem for a Sustainable Food Supply Network under Lateral Inventory Share Policy
- Kulaç O, Ekren BY & Özgür Toy A. (2022). Intelligent Supply Chains Through Implementation of Digital Twins
Books
- Li W, Yetkin Ekren B & Aktas E. (2024). Medical additive manufacturing in pharmacy In Medical Additive Manufacturing Concepts and Fundamentals (1st). Elsevier.
- Turhanlar EE, Ekren BY & Lerher T. (2023). Autonomous Vehicle Travel Between Multiple Aisles by Intelligent Agent-Based Modeling In Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer International Publishing.
- Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2022). An overview for food loss and waste reduction in food supply chains In Mor RS, Kumar D & Singh A (eds), Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies. Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Canbaz CH, Ekren O, Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2022). Evaluation of fuel production technologies by using renewable energy for smart cities In Vacca JR(ed.), Smart cities policies and financing: Approaches and solutions. Elsevier.
- Kulaç O, Ekren BY & Toy AO. (2022). Intelligent supply chains through implementation of digital twins In Kahraman C, Cagri Tolga A, Cevik Onar S, Cebi S, Oztaysi B, ... (eds), Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems: Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference, Volume 504 (Volume 504). Springer.
- Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2022). An Overview of Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste in Supply Chains In Agri-Food 4.0 (27). Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Izmirli D, Ekren BY & Eroglu E. (2022). s, S Inventory Control Optimization Under Inventory Sharing Policy for Omni-Channel Network In Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer International Publishing.
- Ekren BY & Kumar V. (2022). Future of Engineering Education: Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering In Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer International Publishing.