Rachid OUAMALICH obtained his Mining Engineer's degree from Rabat Mining School in 1996 and his Master’s degree Droit, Economie, Gestion from Toulouse 1 University in 2008. He received a Master in Global Supply Chain Management from Kedge Business School in 2021. His is now pursuing PhD degree at Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohamed V University, Morocco. He works as senior manager at OCP Group. His research topics mainly include Supply Chain Management, Modeling and Simulation for Managerial Decisions, Total Quality Management and Sustainability.

Nizar EL HACHEMI obtained his PhD degree in Operations Research from Polytechnic School of Montreal in 2009. He joined the NSERC research chair in logistics management as a post-doc between 2009 and 2010. Since 2010 he has been a professor of Operations Research at Mohammadia School of Engineers, Morocco. He joined the UM6P as an affiliate professor in 2018. ​ Nizar EL HACHEMI research focuses on solving complex routing problems, as well as integrated decision problems which appear in the management of the logistics chain. To address these issues he puys forward hybrid methodologies based on local search and linear programming approaches. He is the co-author of several scientific articles published in renowned journals.