Green Supply Chain Network Design with Economies of Scale and Environmental Concerns

Supply chain design considering economies of scale and transport frequencies

In this paper we consider a 3-echelon, multi-product supply chain design model with economies of scale in transport and warehousing that explicitly takes transport frequencies into consideration. Our model simultaneously optimizes locations and sizes of tank farms, material flows, and transport frequencies within the network. We consider all relevant costs: product cost, transport cost, tank re...

Design of Mathematical Modeling in a Green Supply Chain Network by Collection Centers in the Environment

Nowadays, Economic systems play an important role in environment's field. Along with the rapid change in global manufacturing scenario, environmental and social issues are becoming more important in managing any business. Increasing pressures and challenges to improve economic and environmental performance have been caused developing countries in generally in particular to consider and to start...

Closed loop supply chain network design with fuzzy tactical decisions

One of the most strategic and the most significant decisions in supply chain management is reconfiguration of the structure and design of the supply chain network. In this paper, a closed loop supply chain network design model is presented to select the best tactical and strategic decision levels simultaneously considering the appropriate transportation mode in activated links. The strategic de...

Green Supply Chain Network Design under Multi-mode Production and Uncertainty

A multi-periodic, multi-echelon green supply chain network consisting of manufacturing plants, potential distribution centers, and customers is developed. The manufacturing plants can provide the products in three modes including production in regular time, production in over time, or by subcontracting. The problem has three objectives including minimization of the total costs of the green supp...

Design of bioethanol green supply chain