recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concerns.in this paper, we address the carbon footprint basedon problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. these returned products can either be disposed or be remanufactured to be sold as new ones again. here, we formulate a comprehensive closed-loo...

This work proposes a social networks integrated sensor platform for cold chain logistics to effectively assure agri-food safety and quality. Accordingly, this will enhance consumer confidence and reduce the logistics cost. As a case study, employing WeChat social networks, a remote environment monitoring system inside a vehicle has been developed. Experiment results show that the proposed appro...

Optimization is accepted by logisticians as the appropriate approach to network design. While network design is used to make decisions regarding many aspects of logistics networks, one set of important decisions relates to the number, location, and size of warehouses in the network. Managers must also determine the customers to be supplied from each warehouse. Because of the costs involved in o...

In an invited essay in OR/MS Today, June 2000, entitled, Navigating the Network Economy http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-6-00/nagurney.html I argued that we were in a new era of Supernetworks. Since that time the world has been transformed through events of historical proportions which have dramatically and vividly reinforced the dependence of our societies and economies on critical infrastr...

In the last 20 years, Emergency Management has received increasing attention from the scientific community. Meanwhile, the study of relief distribution networks has become one of the most popular topics within the Emergency Management field. In fact, the number and variety of contributions devoted to the design or the management of relief distribution networks has exploded in the recent years, ...

This study investigates empirically the current level of competitiveness and the major areas for possible collaboration between two adjacent ports in China – Hong Kong port and Shenzhen port, both are among the top ten busiest container ports in the world – from the perspective of their users – freight forwarders and shipping lines. A self-administered questionnaire survey with measurement in L...

Supply chain management is a set of used methods for the efficient integration of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and sellers to response customer requirements to reduce system costs and to distribute products at the right place and right time. This study aims to identify and rank the supply chain damages using the analytic network process as a practical case in a fast moving consumer goo...

The MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network is an international alliance of leading-edge research and education centers, dedicated to the development and dissemination of global innovation in supply chain and logistics. The Global SCALE Network allows faculty, researchers, students, and affiliated companies from all six centers around the world to pool their expertise a...