Supply chain design models in the literature typically assume that facilities never fail. However, in the real world cases facilities are always subject to disruptions of various sorts due to natural disasters, strikes, machine breakdowns, power outages, and other factors. This paper presents an integrated supply chain network design model with the consideration of facility disruptions. Specifi...

In today’s competitive business environment, the design and management of supply chainnetwork is one of the most important challenges that managers encounter. The supply chain network shouldbe designed for satisfying of customer demands as well as minizing the total system costs. This paper presentsa multi-period multi-stage supply chain network design problem under demand uncertainty. The prob...

Nowadays, the design of a strategic supply chain network under disruption is one of the most important priorities of the governments. One of the strategic purposes of managers is to supply the sustainable agricultural products and food in stable conditions which require the production of soil nutrients. In this regard, some disruptions such as sanctions and natural disasters have a destructive ...

A re you gambling with your supply network? As we look back on supply chain management pre-Sept. 11, 2001, it's fair to say that many companies were indeed unwittingly gambling. Sadly, it took the terrorist attacks and subsequent reactions to expose a cold reality: The supply network is inherently vulnerable to disruption, and the failure of any one element in it could cause the whole network t...

The supply chain of agricultural products and in particular perishable products is a critical issue in the supply chain management field due to high safety and quality risks associated with the delays in the products delivery. The supply chain of agricultural has received a great deal of attention lately due to issues related to public health. Something that has become apparent is that in the n...

Purpose This research aims to provide a conceptual framework with the scope assist in establishing sustainable supply chain clusters (SCCs) by providing an instrument for organisations enhance three sustainability dimensions dynamic environment. Design/methodology/approach proposes and organisational performance through theoretical lenses: system theory, extended resource-based view capabilitie...

The multi-objective optimization for a multi-product multi-period four-echelon supply chain network consisting of manufacturing plants, distribution centers (DCs) and retailers each with uncertain services and uncertain customer nodes are aimed in this paper. The two objectives are minimization of the total supply chain cost and maximization of the average number of products dispatched to custo...