Sustainable Horizontal Collaboration: A Case Study in Moroccan Dry Foods Distribution

The paper develops, for partners, a decision tool to assess the economic and ecological impact of collaborative freight delivery, before accepting integrate horizontal cooperative coalition. proposed mechanism is based on design sustainable supply chain specific competing dry food distributors in Morocco. success such practice requires addressing different issues, among them: redesign fair cost allocation participating partners. An extension two echelons Location Routing Problem (2E-LRP) was exploited, investigate how this collaboration can support participants during predefined planning horizon. Shapley value method used evaluate individual opportunities savings. We opt Multi-objective detect good trade-off between objective one. Case study confirms environmental positive shippers’ with optimal network configurations.