Delivering Sustainability Through Supply Chain Distribution Network Redesign

Benders decomposition for Supply Chain Network Redesign with Capacity planning and Multi-Period Pricing

Managing income is a considerable dimension in supply chain management in current economic atmosphere. Real world situation makes it inevitable not to design or redesign supply chain. Redesign will take place as costs increase or new services for customers’ new demands should be provided. Pricing is an important fragment of Supply chain due to two reasons: first, represents revenue based ...

Integrating Business Sustainability into Supply Chain Management

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...

Optimal Supply Chain Redesign using Genetic Algorithm

Supply chain redesign involves decisions regarding the timing, amount and location attributes of the investment and disinvestment in facilities, production, purchase of raw materials, sale of products, loans and bonds for raising capital, signing of contracts for material purchase and sales, such that the profit is maximized. In this work, we use genetic algorithm to obtain the supply chain red...

Supply chain network sustainability under competition and frequencies of activities from production to distribution

In this paper, we develop a competitive supply chain network model with multiple firms, each of which produces a differentiated product by brand and weights the emissions that it generates through its supply chain network activities in an individual way. The supply chain network activities of production, transport and distribution, and storage have associated with them distinct capacities and t...

Addressing Sustainability Issues through Enhanced Supply-Chain Management