Vol. 9 Issue 1 pp. 000‐000 There is a growing need for integrating environmentally sound choices into supply-chain management research and practice. Perusal of the literature shows that a broad frame of reference for green supply-chain management (GrSCM) is not adequately developed. Regulatory bodies that formulate regulations to meet societal and ecological concerns to facilitate growth of business and economy also suffer from its absence. A succinct classification to help academicians, researchers and practitioners in understanding integrated GrSCM from a wider perspective is needed. Further, sufficient literature is available to warrant such classification. This paper takes an integrated and fresh look into the area of GrSCM. The literature on GrSCM is covered exhaustively from its conceptualization, primarily taking a ‘reverse logistics angle’. Using the rich body of available literature, including earlier reviews that had relatively limited perspectives, the literature on GrSCM is classified on the basis of the problem context in supply chain’s major influential areas. It is also classified on the basis of methodology and approach adopted. Various mathematical tools/techniques used in literature vis-a-vis the contexts of GrSCM are mapped. A timeline indicating relevant papers is also provided as a ready reference. Finally, the findings and interpretations are summarized, and the main research issues and opportunities are highlighted.

Green supply‐chain management: A state‐of‐the‐art literature review

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Quantitative models for reverse logistics: A review

Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications

* Starting from Need* Evolution of the Toyota Production System* Further Development* Genealogy of the Toyota Production System* The True Intention of the Ford System* Surviving the Low-Growth Period

Toyota production system : beyond large-scale production

Facility location and supply chain management - A review

We consider a manufacturing system which produces a family of items and the production policy of the system is to produce all items in every production cycle. Some items can be stored in the inventory only for a certain shelf-life period which may be shorter than the production cycle time. If such problem arises, then the cycle-time period for which an item is stored in the inventory has to be reduced to less than or equal to the shelf life of that item to accommodate the feasible schedule. This storage time can be reduced by frequent replenishment of the items and consequently reducing the inventory held up in the store. This objective may be achieved by reducing either the total cycle time or the production rate, or by using a mix of reduced cycle time and production rate. This paper focuses on deciding the best of the first two known options: to reduce the production rate or to reduce the cycle time; the third option is not addressed here because of its complexity. An optimum quantity and its correspon...

Effect of production cost on shelf life

Consignment stocking policy models for supply chain systems: A critical review and comparative perspectives

Grouping efficiency is an evaluative measure of the machine-part groups in cellular manufacturing systems. This paper presents briefly both a critical review and a comparative study of different measures of grouping efficiency. Special emphasis is given to the evaluation of the goodness of clustering solutions in the block-diagonalization of the machine-part incidence matrix. The measures are reported both descriptively and quantitatively. In order to provide information on the measures, results are collected and compiled from discretely reported sources. An attempt is made to categorize and generalize these measures in order to use them for goodness of clustering solution. In order to overcome a number of drawbacks in the previously known measures, a new weighted measure is presented and its performance is demonstrated through several perspectives of evaluation of efficiency measures.

Bhaba R. Sarker

Papers

Effect of production cost on shelf life

Consignment stocking policy models for supply chain systems: A critical review and comparative perspectives

A comparison of existing grouping efficiency measures and a new weighted grouping efficiency measure

An assembly-type supply chain system controlled by kanbans under a just-in-time delivery policy

Modeling and optimization of a supply chain of renewable biomass and biogas: Processing plant location