one of the farmers' marketing decisions is how to sell their products to the market. they sell their products in different ways, for example pre-sell, local dealers and wholesalers,. this paper aims at investigating citrus distribution channels and evaluation of factors affecting the choice of each channels by mazandaran ‘s producers. the data was collected by simple random sampling method. 252...

Inventory control in perishable products supply chain is one of the biggest challenges today, especially for medicines and blood products supply chain. Shortage can increase the mortality risk at hospitals, on the contrary, high levels of inventory could generate wastage of these resources. This paper studies the problem of inventory control and distribution of blood products. This study determ...

The management of oil-product pipelines represents a critical task in the daily operation of petroleum supply chains. Efficient computational tools are needed to schedule pipeline operations in a reliable and cost-effective manner. This work presents a novel discrete event simulation system for the detailed scheduling of a multiproduct pipeline consisting of a sequence of pipes that connects a ...