Assistant Professor
Dr. Arij Lahmar is an Assistant Professor of Quality and Supply Chain Management at HBMSU, with expertise spanning supply chain resilience, digital transformation, and sustainable logistics. Her research and teaching bridge quantitative modeling with real-world industry challenges, preparing learners to lead in an evolving global supply chain landscape.
Dr. Arij Lahmar is an Assistant Professor of Quality & Supply Chain Management with over a decade of academic experience since 2014. She currently teaches at the University of Dubai and has held prior faculty positions at the University of Sousse in Tunisia. Her areas of expertise include supply chain resilience, logistics, quality management, and digital transformation. She has supervised numerous Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD theses and has played a key role in developing and updating MBA and Master's programs. Dr. Lahmar has held academic leadership roles, including department chair, and led collaborative training initiatives with government and industry partners. She is an active contributor to international conferences and peer-reviewed journals, serving on editorial boards and reviewing for several indexed publications in the field of operations and supply chain management.
An overview of academic publications documenting research focus, methodological depth, and scholarly engagement.
2025
Lahmar, A., Zekhnini, K., Masmoudi, M., & Siddiqui, A. A. (2025). Navigating the sustainable supply chain realm: Revolutionizing from 3.0 to 5.0. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 111380.
Mullick, N., Siddiqui, A. A., & Lahmar, A. (2025). How partner similarity impacts India’s economic integration agreements & trade margins? An empirical analysis. Journal of Social and Economic Development, 1–22.
2024
Khalil, H., Lahmar, A., & Siddiqui, A. A. (2024). Enhancement of supply chain resilience of SMEs through entrepreneurial orientation and technological adaptation: A conceptual framework. In Achieving Sustainable Business Through AI, Technology Education and Computer Applications.
Zekhnini, K., Benabdellah, A. C., & Lahmar, A. (2024). Mathematical models applications in digital supply chain network. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions.
Lahmar, A., Galasso, F., Lamothe, J., & Chabchoub, H. (2024). Integrated supply chain risk management index (ISCRi): Applying AHP and QFD. In Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies.
Siddiqui, A. A., Lahmar, A., Singh, P., Arora, K., Samadhiya, A., & Kumar, A. (2024). Unlocking circular supply chain 4.0: Identifying key barriers through bibliometrics and TISM-MICMAC. Benchmarking: An International Journal.
2023
Lahmar, A., & Masmoudi, M. (2023). A prospective disrupting effect of three-dimensional body scanning enabled technology on the downstream garment supply chain. In Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies.
Belmabrouk, A., Lahmar, A., Chouikhi, H., & Bentaher, H. (2023). Classification framework for vehicle routing problems. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (pp. 161–167).
2020
Lahmar, A., Chabchoub, H., Galasso, F., & Lamothe, J. (2020). The VESP model: A conceptual model of supply chain vulnerability. In Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications.
2019
Gendy, A. W. A., & Lahmar, A. (2019). Review on healthcare supply chain. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACS 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
