Mapping Sustainable Structural Dimensions for Managing the Brazilian Biodiesel Supply Chain

Managing Supply Chain Disruptions

Given the substantive negative financial, marketing, and operationsrelated consequences of supply chain disruptions, it is not surprising that most organizations are expending significant efforts to develop effective disruption management strategies. Further, the focus on lowcost (and lean) supply chains to control costs has also resulted in magnifying the impact of even a small disruption at a...

Managing Environmentally Conscious in Designing Closed-loop Supply Chain for the Paper Industry

High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

Sustainable Optimization in Supply Chain Network of the Iranian Universities

There has been a lot of problems for Universities that the main problems of the students are obliged to pay high fees for education and also inability of university to provide appropriate services in terms of quality and quantity of the students. These two factors cause psychological and even physical problems in the country's students an after a while their motivation for continuing education ...

'Diamond standard' for managing supply chain.

Managing the Real-Time Supply Chain

The great divide separating industries and companies within an industry is between those who are up shifting to real time supply chains and those who are not. Until today, very few organizations have succeeded in seamlessly integrating all levels of supply chain activities to achieve a quantum leap in business process. The ones that have succeeded are reaping big competitive rewards and offer u...