In today's globalized world, supply chain management (SCM) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth flow of goods and services. However, with increasing awareness environmental social issues, businesses are now focusing on creating sustainable chain. A SCM reduces footprint ensures ethical practices throughout This article illustrates steps to build system.

In the last decades, business competition has been increasingly among supply chains (SCs) rather than individual firms. Today, considering challenges of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, it is becoming even more vital to coordinate co-manage company resources, activities, innovative efforts at SC level. Consequently, knowledge, which a critical resource for companies, needs be...

This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6 Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify and promote best sustainable practices in logistics and supply chain management. This paper focuses on th...

Nowadays, Economic systems play an important role in environment's field. Along with the rapid change in global manufacturing scenario, environmental and social issues are becoming more important in managing any business. Increasing pressures and challenges to improve economic and environmental performance have been caused developing countries in generally in particular to consider and to start...

Growing global demand for energy, result in depletion of easily access source of fossil fuels. To fulfillment of this huge demand, oil and gas industry expanded to develop offshore oil and gas reservoirs in recent years, which made environmental management challenging. IRAN owns one of the biggest offshore gas reservoir in PERSIAN GULF with high geopolitical and financial importance. Along the ...

cost reduction is one of the methods applied for improving the productivity of organizations. in productivity literature, particularly in nonparametric methods, cost reduction related methods are regarded as input oriented models. this paper presents a supply chain management (scm) model in which purchasing iron ore and coke from different resources, along with production and distribution of st...

supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. this paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.the models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. outside and local s...

the advent of e-commerce has prompted many manufacturers to redesign their traditional channel structure by engaging in direct sales. in this paper, we present a dual channel inventory model based on queuing theory in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain, consisting of a traditional retail channel and a direct channel which stocks are kept in both upper and lower echelon. the system receives st...

The recent rise in a number of calamities and terrorist acts has brought much attention to the vulnerabilities of supply chains. Having passed through many hands that span continents and entities, the reliability and timeliness of freight delivery become increasingly difficult to be assessed. Particularly, at seaports which is an indispensible node in global supply chains and where complex sea ...