Process design in material supply systems requires careful analysis from the process manager in order to optimize important variables, such as the number of assembly areas and their locations. Decisions on these critical variables can have significant impacts on multiple objectives, including minimizing project cost and adverse environmental impacts. The objective of this paper is to present th...

Disasters can cause many casualties and considerable destruction mainly because of ineffective preventive measures, incomplete preparedness, and weak relief logistics systems. After catastrophic events happen, quick and effective response is of great importance, so as to having an efficient logistic plan for distributing needed relief commodities efficiently and fairly among affected people. In...

Current Brazilian law does not provide appropriate legislation governing waste resulting from unused medication, which presents a growing public health threat. Studies that have considered these issues are incomplete, classifying unused medication as a remnant of healthcare and ignoring the user, who has the largest role in generating this type of waste. Users do not possess sufficient knowledg...

This paper mainly discusses the application of the particle swarm optimization in logistics distribution routing problems. Combining with the characteristics of logistics and distribution, it established a mathematical model of the distribution routing problem. Introducing three kinds of optimization strategies in the particle swarm optimization to optimize the particle swarm algorithm, constru...