A Bi-objective Cold Supply Chain for Perishable Products Considering Quality Aspects: A Case Study in Iran Dairy Sector

Improper handling in the food cold supply chain may compromise safety and reduce quality, which can lead to economic losses undesirable effects on accessibility. Therefore, designing an efficient reliable is extremely important for company, suppliers, customers, society. The majority of traditional studies do not consider cost quality (prevention, appraisement, failure) network design. In this study, all dimensions a design such as related suppliers distribution service are investigated close problem real-world conditions. Moreover, manufacturers, distributors simultaneously considered throughout with new approach. To end, formulated mathematical model multi-item multi-period cases considering two objective functions. first function minimizes total expected costs second maximizes chain. proposed bi-objective has been transformed into single-objective by solution parametric method (normalized weighted summation) solved medium-sized instance data case study. Computational results analyzes indicate efficiency well exact available small medium scales. real study involves Kaleh Dairy Company conducted illustrate potential proper sensitivity analyses.