regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

This study established power-related efficiency measures from the perspective of reliability, namely, power system availability, expected deficiency, accumulated instantaneous capacity, and capacity for a hybrid (HPS) in generic smart grid. Methodologically, supply–demand stochastic model that simultaneously considers inherently nature supply demand was developed to quantify their interrelation...

The development of optimization and mathematical models for closed loop supply chain (CLSC) design has attracted considerable interest over the past decades. However, the uncertainties that are inherent in the network design and the complex interactions among various uncertain parameters are challenging the capabilities of the developed tools. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to propose a n...

We consider RFID tags and their applications from a recycling/remanufacturing perspective and propose a novel framework to assist such process based on item-level information visibility and instantaneous tracking/tracing ability enabled by RFID. The incorporation of RFID in the reverse supply chain results in cost reduction, service & production quality improvement and pollution & waste reducti...

Due to the lack of a secure supply chain, it is not possible to fully trust the integrity of electronic devices. Current methods of verifying integrated circuits are either destructive or non-specific. Here we expand upon prior work, in which we proposed a novel method of reverse engineering the finite state machines that integrated circuits are built upon in a non-destructive and highly specif...

During the last decade, reverse logistics networks received a considerable attention due to economic importance and environmental regulations and customer awareness. Integration of leading and reverse logistics networks during logistical network design is one of the most important factors in supply chain. In this research, an Integer Linear Programming model is presented to design a multi-layer...

Environmental consciousness has become critical in the design and operations management. In recent years, the sort of issues that have come to light and drawn the attention of managers has extended staggeringly. Sustainable development is a significant component of growing interest for managers who have to address with social and environmental issues related to the own company as well as their ...

Agent based modeling and simulation consider the behavior of agents acting in a system. The agents' interactions result in changing the agent’s behavior, the whole agent based system, and its environment. In this study, the manufacturing, sale, and receiving orders behaviors pertinent to manufacturing and sale agents acting across a pharmaceutical supply chain of an Iranian manufacturing medici...

This paper aims to propose a conceptual model to analyse the influence of lean, resilient and green supply chain management practices on supply chain sustainability. A deductive research approach was used to develop a conceptual model from the literature review. The SCM practices focused in this study are: waste elimination, Total Quality Management, just-in-time; supply chain risk management, ...

Conducting preventive maintenance of measurement sensors in real-time during process operation under feedback control while ensuring the reliability and improving the economic performance of a process is a central problem of the research area focusing on closed-loop preventive maintenance of sensors and actuators. To address this problem, a robust moving horizon estimation (RMHE) scheme and an ...