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FACULTY Engin TOPAN
  Instructor
  • B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002.
  • M.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2005.
  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in progress
   
  Contact Information
 
 
 
 
E-mail : etopan@cankaya.edu.tr
Telephone : (+90) 312 284 4500 / 4098
Fax : (+90) 312 284 8043
Office : A220
Personal Web Page : http://academic.cankaya.edu.tr/~etopan
     
  Research Interests  
 

  • Stochastic Models of Production/Inventory Systems

  • Inventory Theory

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Discrete Optimization

 

  
  Publications  
 

  • Topan, E., and Avsar Z.M., “An Approximation for Kanban Controlled Assembly Systems”, Annals of Operations Research, DOI 10.1007/s10479-009-0560-1, 2009.

  
  Submitted for Publication  
 

  • Topan E., Bayındır Z. P., and Tan, T., “An Exact Solution Procedure for Multi-Item Two Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Problem with Batch Ordering in the Central Warehouse”, submitted to Operations Research Letters.

 

  
  Conference Presentations  
 

  • Tan, T., Topan E., and Bayındır Z. P., “Multi-Item Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Problem with Batch Ordering in the Central Warehouse”, INFORMS, San Diego, USA, October 2009.

  • Topan E., Bayındır Z. P., and Tan, T., “An Exact Solution Procedure for Multi-Item Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Problem with Batch Ordering in the Central Warehouse”, INFORMS MSOM, Cambridge, USA, June 2009.  

  • Tan, T., Bayındır Z. P., and Topan E., “Heuristics for Multi-Item Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Problem with Batch Ordering in the Central Warehouse”, INFORMS MSOM, Cambridge, USA, June 2009.

  • Topan E., Bayındır Z. P., and Tan, T., “Çok Ürünlü İki Seviyeli Yedek Parça Envanter Kontrolü-Merkezi Depoda Toplu Ismarlama” (Multi-Item Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Problem with Batch Ordering the Central Warehouse), Yöneylem Araştırması ve Endüstri Mühendisliği 29. Ulusal Kongresi (29. National Conference on Operational Research and Industrial Engineering), Ankara, Turkey, June 2009.

  • Topan E., Bayındır Z. P., and Tan, T., “Batch Ordering Problem in Multi Item Two Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control Systems”, 15th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 2008.  

  • Topan, E., and Avşar Z.M., An Approximate Model for Kanban Controlled Assembly Systems”, 22nd European Conference on Operational Research, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007.

  • Topan, E., and Avşar Z.M., An Approximate Model for Kanban Controlled Assembly Systems”, METU-IE and TU/e-OPAC 2nd Joint Workshop, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2006.

  
 

Memberships in Professional Societies:

  
 

ISIR (International Society for Inventory Research)

  
 

PhD Thesis:

  
 

Multi-Item Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Control with Batch Ordering (ongoing), supervised by Assist. Prof. Z. Pelin Bayındır and Tarkan Tan.

  
  Master Thesis/Project  
 

An Approximate Model for Kanban Controlled Assembly Systems, 2005.