A supply chain can be defined as an integrated business process wherein a number of various business entities (i.e., suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers) work together. Supply chain configuration is concerned with determining supply, production and stock levels in raw materials, subassemblies at different levels of the given bills of material (BOM). End products and informatio...

Supply chains satisfy customers by striving for delivering the right products to the right place at the right time, at the right quality and at the right quantity within an increasingly faster pace and lower cost. One implication that can be made from this is that the nature of markets is the point of departure in both supply chain design and operations. Given that organizations usually offer a...

Inventory management is considered to be an important field in Supply Chain Management because the cost of inventories in a supply chain accounts for about 30% of the value of the product. The service provided to the customer eventually gets enhanced once the efficient and effective management of inventory is carried out all through the supply chain. The precise estimation of optimal inventory ...

The bullwhip effect phenomena in supply chain management were discussed a lot in the literatures. Most of them provided empirical evidences or analytical formulas to demonstrate the existence of the bullwhip effect in a simple two or more echelons supply chain. This paper will explore the phenomena in a quite different situation: a supply chain with deteriorating products. Unlike the convention...

Performance of a supply chain is directly related to a distribution network that entails the location of storing materials or products and how products are delivered to the end customer through different stages in the supply chain. This study analyses the current distribution network used for delivering gas cylinders to end customer in Jordan. Evaluation of current distribution has been conduct...

Addressing an integrated decision-making structure for planting and harvesting scheduling may lead to more realistic, accurate, and efficient decision in fresh product supply chain. This study aims to develop an integrated bi-objective tactical and operational planning model for producing and distributing fresh crops. The first objective of the model is to maximize total revenue of supply chain...

Abstract Over the course of last decades, closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) and reverse logistics issues have attracted increasing attention owing to strict environmental laws, social responsibilities, economic interests, customer awareness. Hence, issue chain has emerged as a field research in new era. This received much because it allows recyclable products return their original cycle. Therefo...

integrated production-distribution planning (pdp) is one of the most important approaches in supply chain networks. we consider a supply chain network (scn) to consist of multi suppliers, plants, distribution centers (dcs), and retailers. a bi-objective mixed integer linear programming model for integrating production-distribution designed here aim to simultaneously minimize total net costs in ...

At the strategic level, closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) management involves long-term decisions regarding the location and capacity allocation of forward/reverse logistics facilities, the assignment of products to facilities, and the distribution of products between facilities and their end users or suppliers. Both demand and return handling must be taken into account, and the overall problem b...