The main objective of this research is to answer the following research question “How should a company design their reverse logistics network in a more efficient or responsive way?” In this research, a conceptual framework has been developed based on several key factors for network design. Through the analysis of each key factor affecting network design decision, we have built a conceptual fram...

In this paper we discuss the difficulties of customized mass production in case of high manufacturing setup costs and unstable markets, where due to high service level requirements and demand volatility the risk of remaining obsolete inventory is significant. We propose a two-level logistics framework for coordinating supply channels in such production networks and methods for medium-term lot s...

Operations Research has addressed a variety of environmental problems outside the traditional supply chain management area such as remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and waste management. Supply chain sustainability, which includes designing green supply chains, will gain much more attention in the future. Indeed, most companies are still in the early stage of considering a green initiative. T...

Over the last few years, the management of reverse logistics has become not only a growing reality for organizations (Rogers, Lambert, Croston & GarciaDastugue, 2002) but also a vector of competitiveness used by an increasing number of managers (Dowlatshahi, 2000). Daugherty, Richey, Hudgens, and Autry (2003), however, remind us that “reverse logistics has been described as going the wrong way ...

Mobile devices have been increasingly become important tools for the information system application in agriculture, but the safe problem that follow also results in risks of economy lose. Considering above problems and combining the application of an agriculture chain logistics management system, a series of jobs have been done. This paper presents a data security solution which encrypts the co...

one of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. in this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (m/m/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

In this paper, the centralized return centers location evaluation problem in a reverse logistics network is investigated. This problem is solved via an integrated analytic network processfuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution approach. Analytic network process allows us to evaluate criteria preferences while considering interdependence between them. On the other ha...