Environmental and social responsibilities have led many manufacturers to used products recovery. Meanwhile, many manufacturers nowadays sell products via indirect retailer channels and direct Internet channels. This paper models a dual-channel closed-loop supply chain to improve the sustainability of products. We apply the two-stage optimization technique and the Nash game to examine the impact...

Agricultural products supply-chain finance, as one of the solutions to the issue of “capital problems” of agriculture, countryside and farmers, has proposed a kind of characteristics model to assess the risk of agricultural production, processing and marketing, which can improve the issue of farmers and enterprises lacking of funds. This model is proposed on the basis of uncertain information p...

managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in scm. therefore, using certain information systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...

In order to manage medicine distribution in an appropriate manner, there is a necessity of deep understanding of its management. The challenges of the pharmaceutical products supply chain are its specified shelf life and specified storage conditions. Managing quality of medicines during distribution is a critical operation. There are various dosage forms of medicines eg tablets, syrups, injecta...

The supply chain of agricultural products has received a great deal of attention lately due to issues related to public health. Something that has become apparent is that in the near future the design and operation of agricultural supply chains will be subject to more stringent regulations and closer monitoring, in particular those for products destined for human consumption (agri-foods). This ...

Closed loop supply chain aims at integrating return products in the traditional supply chain processes. The return flows generate new uncertain elements (returns and leadtimes) and optimization of inventory control in this context is a complex issue. Inventory policies have to generate good performances (service level, cost) and be easy to implement in practice. A supply chain model based on si...

Transportation of goods constitutes an important part of in–bound as well as out-bound logistics of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Efficient distribution of goods and services is of vital importance in today’s competitive market, as transportation constitutes a considerable portion of the trading price of most products or services. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is now at the centre stage of man...

Integrating the supply chain is increasingly being advocated as the basis for organizations to realize performance gains in the near future. This paper explores the relationships between IT infrastructure, digitization, resource flow integration in the supply chain, and its consequences for business value creation. Data for this study were collected by a survey of supply chain and logistics man...

1 We would like to thank the following for their comments on the earlier versions of the paper: (i) the Special Issue editors and the two anonymous referees for their insightful comments-2-Abstract This paper explores the benefits of an emerging initiative in the consumer products products. To evaluate CPFR benefits, we compare it with the traditional reorder point (ROP) method, where members i...

One of the strategic decisions that can be made in supply chain is designing its network which has high impact on costs, and satisfaction level of customers. This paper focuses on designing a distribution network including determining the number and location of facilities, how to allocate the customers in network, and also determining the extent of carrying different products from different ori...