Disruptions to supply chains come in many forms. There are natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and disasters perpetrated by humans, such as terrorist attacks. And there are dislocations that have more to do with the nature of business. Globalisation is stretching supply chains internationally at a time when market volatility is increasing, exposing companies to greater uncerta...

Nowadays, supply chain management (SCM) is an interesting problem that has attracted the attention of many researchers. Transportation network design is one of the most important fields of SCM. In this paper, a logistics network design is considered to optimize the total cost and increase the network stability and resiliency. First, a mixed integer nonlinear programming model (MINLP) is formula...

Electronic commerce and associated business-to-business transaction capabilities have changed the way in which the supply chain operates. The Internet has enabled information exchange on an unprecedented scale, often at a pace too fast for normal consumption. Companies are not equipped to make effective use of data from warehouse and transportation management systems. These systems are key fact...

A new model has been developed for multicommodity transportation and supply chain problems including stepwise constant costs. The model is expressed as an MILP problem. The modelling equations are presented here. The new model has been tested on multicommodity problem of SABMiller Europe, and compared to other methods from the literature. A feasibility checking method has been developed for lar...

In this paper a variety of issues on the relationship between supply chains and transportation is provided. Although some of these issues are complementary to the presentations made by other analysts at the 2nd Conference on Agro-Industrial Logistics in Mediterranean Area, a few different directions for research are also highlighted. The first section provides an overview of supply chains and s...

In this paper, an integrated production and transportation scheduling model is proposed. This model is based on multi-item capacitated lot sizing and facility location type models. The objective of the integrated model is to minimize the total production and transportation cost. The integrated model is solved by Lagrangian decomposition method and the decomposed two sub-problems can be solved b...

ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 1998 THE TRANSPORTATION PROFESsion needs to respond to changing needs as major metropolitan areas across the country struggle to deal with increased levels of congestion. These unprecedented congestion levels not only call for innovative, cost-effective solutions to transportation problems but also new tools to evaluate the impacts of alternative improvements. Traditional...

Strategic level supply chain decisions such as manufacturing facility size and location have implications for green supply chain goals. In recent years, many firms have embraced key trends in off-shoring by purchasing from or producing in low cost regions of the world. In this situation, transportation costs were fairly low and were not a key factor in these decisions. However, rising fuel cost...