Production and Operations Management

lt;b> Dr. Jorge Vargas Florez is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP, attached to the Industrial Engineering School since 2007. Director of Research in Industrial Engineering. Founder of the Crisis and Disaster Management Research Group, CID-PUCP. Member of the Advisory Committee for Doctoral Studies in the Department of Engineering. Visiting researcher at Cranfield University and the University of Lincoln. He has co-authored various papers published in journals, books, and international conference proceedings. Scholarships; PUCP Jorge Dintilhac undergraduate studies, Paul Rivet-PUCP PhD studies. Experience as Chief and Supervisor in the areas of Logistics, Quality Control, Production and Commercial, respectively in Retail, Food and Energy sectors.Dr. Irineu de Brito Junior is a professor of Risk Management at Sao Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, Brazil, an invited Professor of Humanitarian Logistics at São Paulo University (USP), and a Humanitarian Logistics Instructor at Civil Defense and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering; M.Sc. in Logistics Engineering, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo, USP. Actually, is POMS Latin America & Caribbean VP of Communications. His humanitarian research interests are in facility location, food security, donations management, and social impacts of Covid 19.Adriana Leiras is a Professor of the Industrial Engineering Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and as founder and coordinator of the HANDs Lab - Humanitarian Assistance and Needs for Disasters. She is the current Regional Vice President Americas of POMS - Production and Operations Management Society. She also leads the regional research project in Humanitarian logistics and relief operations of the MIT SCALE Latin America Network. Since 2011, she has participated in research and consulting projects on humanitarian logistics and disaster operations management. She has co-authored various papers published in journals, books, and conference proceedings. She teaches and researches Industrial/ Production Engineering, focusing on humanitarian operations management.Sandro Alberto Paz Collado is a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida. Former Director of Evaluation and Accreditation of Universities at SINEACE (Peruvian accreditation body).  Industrial Engineering Program Director at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - PUCP. General Coordinator of Continuous Improvement and Accreditation at School of Science and Engineering - PUCP, for the accreditation of its programs with CEAB (Canada), ABET (USA) and ICACIT (Perú). Researcher, consultant and instructor on topics such as quality management, statistical process control, data mining, simulation, and optimization.
Miguel Domingo Gonzalez Alvarez is a Professor of the Engineering Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).  Industrial Engineer from PUCP, Master and Doctor in Industrial Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.  He was the Director of the Center for Development and Innovation of PUCP.  He was president and founder of Peruvian Association of Incubators (PERUINCUBA). He was former Head of Engineering Department of PUCP and president of the Latin American Association for Technology Management (ALTEC).  His current research interests are innovation and operations management, interorganizational planning, innovation and entrepreneurial systems.  He is Vice President for Administration of PUCP.
Dr. Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin. He has strong theoretical foundations and practical experience in tran

Part. I: Business Operations Management.- Subpart: Operations Planning and Financial Decisions.- 1. Socially Optimal Retail Return Strategies Under the Influence of Endowment Effect.- 2. Sales & Operations Planning a Practical Implementation Guide.- 3. Rural Area Electric Power Distribution Coverage Improvement.- Subpart: Operations Planning and Financial Decisions.- 4. Better Efficiency on Non-Performing Loans debt recovery and portfolio valuation using Machine Learning techniques.- 5. A Proposal for collaborative Research Projects Involving Academy and a Brazilian Navy Science and Technology Institution.- Part. II: Production Process Innovation and New Technologies.- Subpart: Energy.- 6. Assessing the attractiveness of onshore wind and solar photovoltaic sources in Brazil.- 7. Forecasting total hourly electricity consumption in Brazil through complex seasonality methods.- 8. Rural Area Electric Power Distribution Coverage Improvement.- 9. Maintenance Facility Location and Routing Optimization for a Company that Provides Electrical Services.- 10. Condition-based Maintenance Program on Lithium-Ion batteries using Artificial Intelligence for Aeronautical Operations Management.- 11. The Impact of Electricity Consumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Subpart: Agriculture.- 12. Offering Wind Farms: Types of Service and their Characteristics.- 13. Coffee value chain cost logistic analysis in Chanchamayo Peru.- 14. Operational planning model for harvesting of fresh agricultural products.- 15. Optimization model to consolidate the hose load in a Peruvian agribusiness.- 16. Blockchain, innovation to the value Chain and improvement in the management of Peruvian family farming.- Subpart: Other Industries.- 17. Proposal to Improve the Consolidated Copper Mineral in a Warehouse, using Lean Manufacturing Tools.- 18. Application of Sustainable Livelihoods Approach in the Tea Filter Production.- 19. The limit of the environmental and productive performance of closed-loop production: evaluation in the wood pellet industry in Brazil.- 20. Logistics For Disaster Waste Management: A Case Study Of The 2019 Oil Spill in Brazil.- 21. Process optimization in a Peruvian cheese microenter-prise through the synergy of lean manufacturing and er-gonomic tools.- Part. III: Defense, Healthcare and Humanitarian Logistics.- Subpart: Defense and Migration.- 22. Defense offsets: Propositions and different perceptions.- 23. Scaling operations to address forced migration flows: the case of Venezuelan immigration.- 24. Optimizing Human Resources: The Case of Venezuelan Migration in Lima, Peru.- Subpart: Healthcare Applications.- 25. An Analysis of Public Hospital Services and Technologies 4.0: A Conceptual Framework for Health Management.- The emergency care unit operations supply chain management: An analysis of the healthcare service challenges and opportunities.- 27. A telemedicine and telehealth conceptual managerial framework: Opportunities, challenges, and trends in the healthcare promotion.- 28. A sustainable development managerial analysis of the integration among healthcare, safety, ergonomics, and environment.- Subpart: Humanitarian Logistics.- 29.  Demand estimation for humanitarian aid due to earth-quakes in Lima's cliff area using simulation.- 30. Rescue Robot against risks in natural disasters using Arduino.- Part. IV: Freight Logistics and Distribution.- Subpart: Freight Logistics.- 31. Radio Frequency Identification and Rapid Response Code as Portable and Traceable Logistics Management Devices.- 32. Urban road Network Resilience Assessment on Freight Logistics by Simulating Disruptive Events.- 33. Intelligent route planning for effective police patrolling in a Peruvian district.- 34. UrbanPy: A Library to Download, Process and Visualize High Resolution Urban Data to Support Transportation and Urban Planning Decisions.- 35. Delivery Bay location and dimensioning for city logistics uses: an interactive modelling approach.- Subpart: Last-Mile Deliveries.- 36. Instant deliveries: A Latin America overview.- 37. Bundling Strategy Through Text Mining Tools.- 38. Machine Learning applied to Last Mile Operations: Applying Machine Learning Models for Stops Classification in Urban Logistics.- 39. Comparison of nanostore supply chain strategies in urban areas: The case of Ica, Peru.- Subpart: COVID-19 Logistical Challenges.- 40. Evaluation of COVID Restrictions in Airport Flight Management using discrete event simulation.- 41. Evaluation of Variables to Determine Cycling Routes in Lima-Perú.- 42. Optimization model applied to the distribution of Covid- 19 vaccines in Lima and Callao.- 43. COVID -19 impacts and mitigation strategies on food supply chains: a survey to the Brazilian context.