Supply chain network design (SCND) is a challenging strategic issue for any company since it involves long-term decisions and high capital investment (see e.g. (Owen & Daskin, 1998) and (Melo, et al., 2009) for an overview of network design and facility location literature). Classical SCND problems include only forward flows, i.e. flows from suppliers to end customers. However, nowadays, many c...

in today’s growing competitive environment, supply chain management has been widely focused by firms as a critical issue. consequently, the organization’s activities are influenced in order to achieving quality improvement, cost reduction and customer satisfaction in production process. recently, pollution and greenhouse effects have focused the researchers’ attention on planning and executing ...

in this study, an optimization model is proposed to design a global supply chain (gsc) for a medical device manufacturer under disruption in the presence of pre-existing competitors and price inelasticity of demand. therefore, static competition between the distributors’ facilities to more efficiently gain a further share in market of economic cooperation organization trade agreement (ecota) is...

We consider competition between two decentralized supply chains network under demand uncertainty. Each chain consists of one risk-averse manufacturer and a group of risk-averse retailers. These two chains present substitutable products to the geographical dispensed markets. The markets’ demands are contingent upon prices, service levels, and advertising efforts of two supply chains. We formulat...

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...

With regard to environmental pressures and economic benefits, some original construction equipment manufacturers, have focused on collecting recovering machinery at the end of their life. The present study aimed focus Sustainable closed-loop supply chain network optimization for recovering. To this purpose, different recovery options such as remanufacturing, recycli...

Automation and optimisation of supply-chain activities are made possible by radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID supply chain performance can be enhanced by integrating RFID functions into the web service paradigm. However, the use of RFID involves growing privacy and security concerns, in part because the lack of RFID tag capacity places the whole supply-chain loop at risk of...