Waste management in health institutions has become important in recent years because of the increase in population and industrialization. Waste generated from health institutions has risks for human health and the environment. Therefore, this paper presents a reverse logistics optimization for waste collection and disposal in Turkish health institutions. A multiperiod, multitype product waste r...

Recently, M&A between companies that produce similar products have been carried out quite often with the intention of improving efficiency and economies of scale. In this paper, a case study is conducted on an M&A model for a Japanese tire company. This model can be formulated as a large-scale mixed integer programming problem. A new formulation and approximate solution method with a tabu searc...

In this paper, a reverse supply chain network is investigated for a decision making. This decision is surrounded by complex flows of returned products, due to the increasing quantity, the type of returned products and the variety of recovery option products (reuse, recycling, and refurbishment). The most important problem in the reverse logistic network (RLN) is to orient returned products to t...

Service network design is critical to the profitability of express shipment carriers. In this paper, we consider the problem of designing the integrated service network for premium and deferred express shipment delivery. Related existing models adapted to this problem are intractable for realistic problem instances, requiring excessive computer memory and solution times. We extend existing mode...

This paper focuses on two-tier City Logistics systems for advanced management of urban freight activities and, in particular, on the first layer of such systems where freight is moved from distributions centers on the outskirts of the city to satellite platforms’ by urban vehicles, from where it will be distributed to customers by other, dedicated vehicles. We address the issue of planning the ...

This paper explores the use of the optimization procedures in SAS/OR software with application to the contemporary logistics distribution network design using an integrated multiple criteria decision making approach. Unlike the traditional optimization techniques, the proposed approach, combining analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and goal programming (GP), considers both quantitative and qualita...

Network design problems in transportation and logistics are both complex and largescale—often containing millions, or even billions, of decision variables and tens of thousands of constraints. Finding optimal or near-optimal solutions to large-scale network design problems is challenging, if not impossible. To address this issue, we extend and bring together in a unified setting two complementa...

complies with the regulations of the University and meets the acceptable standards with respect to originality and quality. Abstract Design of RFID-enabled Aircraft Reverse Logistics Network Simulation Kehinde Oluyemisi Adetiloye The reverse logistics (RL) of aircrafts pose a big challenge to its owners due to the complexity of its RL network, and the inherit problems of realizing a reliable sy...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...

This work is concerned with the efficient design of a reverse logistics network using an extended version of models currently found in the literature. Those traditional, basic models are formulated as mixed integer linear programs (MILP-model) and determine which facilities to open that minimize the investment, processing, transportation, disposal and penalty costs while supply, demand and capa...