Excessive greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector have led companies to move towards a sustainable supply chain network design. In this study we present new bi-objective non-linear formulation where multiple inventory components are integrated into location and routing decisions throughout network. To efficiently solve proposed model, implement an exact method four evolutionary ...

This work considers the strategic Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) problem, which is to define number and location of facilities, flow products among them fulfilling a long-term deterministic demand. A two-phase heuristic approach was specially developed solve large scale problems in reasonable time, extending previous algorithm introduced Farias et al. (2017). In construction phase, multi-st...

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Having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. In this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

The Internet has been a key to optimizing the supply chain, enabling real-time data to be shared between supply chain partners, which usually connect together as an e-business network. Nowadays the focus is on building-in value added products/services, thereby enabling the network to differentiate itself from its competitors in a more sustainable manner. In this context, outsourcing has provide...

Development of a coherent methodology for supply chain vs. supply chain competition remains elusive in literature in terms of purpose, approaches and theoretical foundations. The purpose of this paper is to identify suitable theories of competition from which supply chain vs. supply chain competition may be further developed. Paper explores literature on competition theories, competition and it...

Increasing global competitiveness has forced manufacturing organizations to produce highquality products quickly and at competitive prices which can only be achieved thorough continuous improvements techniques. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy based performance evaluation method for lean supply chain. To understand the overall performance of cost competitive supply chain, we investigate the al...

Supply chains are complex systems that are difficult to be understood from the viewpoint of the single enterprise. This often leads to local optimizations that form an optimum for one company or a short section of a supply network. Such local optimizations endanger the competitiveness of the whole supply chain, as today not the single enterprise, but the production network (sometimes named Virt...