Against global warming and environmental degradation, many interests have been paid to the studies popularly termed reverse, closed, green or sustainable logistics (Fiksel, 2010; Nikolopoulou and Ierapetritou, 2012; Srivastava, 2007). Recently, we concerned with a reverse logistics optimization in a practical manner (Shimizu and Sakaguchi, 2013) and deployed an idea for realizing an infrastruct...

Abstract The distribution–allocation problem is known as one of the most comprehensive strategic decisions. In real-world cases, it impossible to solve a completely in acceptable time. This forces researchers develop efficient heuristic techniques for large-term operation whole supply chain. These provide near optimal solution and are comparably fast particularly large-scale test problems. pape...

The purpose of this research is to present a new mathematical modeling for a vehicle routing problem considering concurrently the criteria such as distance, weight, traffic considerations, time window limitation, and heterogeneous vehicles in the reverse logistics network for collection of expired products. In addition, we aim to present an efficient solution approach according to differential ...

Today, there is a high number of injuries and various wastes and debris produced during natural and unnatural events. This study aims to investigate the reverse logistics planning problem in the response and reaction phases as well as improvement and reconstruction in earthquake conditions by using a real case study. Regarding the high complexity of this type of optimization problem, a multi-ob...

Production planning and the development of manufacturing production scheduling are two important operational management tasks. The results of these tasks will strongly influence the development of corporate profits, as well as the efficiency of utilization of resources. Considering the production scheduling problems in production plans can effectively avoid conflicts between the specific implem...