Supply chain management
Maryam Rahmaty
Abstract
In this paper, the modeling of a closed-loop supply chain problem is discussed concerning economic and environmental aspects. The considered supply chain simultaneously makes strategic and tactical decisions, such as locating potential facilities, optimal allocation of product flow, and determining the ...
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In this paper, the modeling of a closed-loop supply chain problem is discussed concerning economic and environmental aspects. The considered supply chain simultaneously makes strategic and tactical decisions, such as locating potential facilities, optimal allocation of product flow, and determining the optimal level of discount. Since the presented model is an NP-Hard model, MOPSO and SPEA II algorithms have been used to solve the problem. For this purpose, a priority-based encoding is presented, and the Pareto front resulting from solving different problems is compared. The results show that the MOPSO algorithm has obtained the most significant number of Pareto solutions in the large size. In contrast, the SPEA algorithm has included more Pareto solutions in the small and medium sizes. This is despite the fact that in different sizes, the MOPSO algorithm has the lowest calculation time among all algorithms. Also, according to the results obtained from the TOPSIS method, it was observed that the MOPSO algorithm in small and medium sizes and the SPEA2 algorithm in larger sizes have better performance than other proposed algorithms.
A. Mohajeri; M. Fallah; F Hosseinzadeh Lotfi
Volume 3, Issue 3 , September 2014, , Pages 24-48
Abstract
Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concern. In this paper, we address the carbon footprint based problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. These returned products can either be disposed or ...
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Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concern. In this paper, we address the carbon footprint based 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. Given this environment, an optimization model for a closed-loop supply chain in which the carbon emission is expressed in terms of environmental constraints, namely carbon emission constraints, is developed. These constraints aim at limiting the carbon emission per unit of product supplied with different transportation mode. Here, we design a closed-loop network where capacity limits, single-item management and uncertainty on product demands and returns are considered. First, the fuzzy mathematical programming is introduced for uncertain modeling. Therefore, the statistical approach towards possibility to synthesize fuzzy information is utilized. So, using defined possibilistic mean and variance, we transform the proposed fuzzy mathematical model into a crisp form to facilitate efficient computation and analysis. The model is applied to an illustrative example of an uncertain green supply chain (GSC).