https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/files/116118561/reverse_logistics.pdf

Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future

Big data analytics in logistics and supply chain management: Certain investigations for research and applications

Integer programming formulations of discrete hub location problems

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/280260/1/Geissdoerfer%20et%20al.%202018_Author%27s%20version.pdf

Business models and supply chains for the circular economy

Supply chain network design (SCND) models and methods have been the subject of several recent literature review surveys, but none of them explicitly includes sustainable development as a main characteristic of the problem considered. The aim of this review is to bridge this gap. The paper analyzes 87 papers in the field of supply chain network design, covering mathematical models that include economic factors as well as environmental and/or social dimensions. The review is organized along four research questions asking (i) which environmental and social objectives are included, (ii) how are they integrated into the models, (iii) which methods and tool are used and finally (iv) which industrial applications and contexts are covered in these models. The review finds that there are a number of limitations to the current research in sustainable SCND. The narrow scope of environmental and social measures in current models should go beyond limited greenhouse gas indicators to broader life-cycle approaches including new social metrics. The more effective inclusion of uncertainty and risk in models with improved multi-objective approaches is also needed. There are also significant gaps in the sectors used to test models limiting more general applicability. The paper concludes with promising new avenues of research to more effectively include sustainability into SCND models.

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Sustainable supply chain network design: An optimization-oriented review☆

Survey: Hub location problems: A review of models, classification, solution techniques, and applications

In this study, a general comprehensive model is proposed for strategic closed-loop supply chain network design under interval data uncertainty. The proposed model considers various assumptions such as multiple periods, multiple products, and multiple supply chain echelons as well as uncertain demand and purchasing cost. In addition, bill of materials for each product is considered via a new approach in management of forward and reverse flows of products for producing new products and reusing or disassembling returned products. Uncertainty of parameters in the proposed model is handled via an interval robust optimisation technique. The model assumptions are well matched with decision making environments of food and high-tech electronics manufacturing industries. The factors that make these two industries similar are time-dependent properties of products such as prices and warehousing lifetime period. The computational results of solving the proposed model via LINGO 8 demonstrate efficiency of the proposed ...

Robust closed-loop supply chain network design for perishable goods in agile manufacturing under uncertainty

Improving performance of global supply chains requires careful consideration of various factors including distance from markets, access to resources, exchange and tax rates, import tariffs, and trade regulations. In this paper, a comprehensive optimization model is proposed to maximise the after-tax profit of a closed-loop global supply chain for medical devices under uncertainty. The uncertainty of the decision-making environment is modelled using the budget of uncertainty concept in interval robust optimization. International financial issues due to the Economic Cooperation Organisation Trade Agreement as well as national regulations including transfer pricing limitations, exchange rates, tax rates, and import tariffs are considered. The proposed model considers various realistic assumptions pertaining to medical device supply chains such as multiple products, multiple periods, multiple echelons, and limited warehousing lifetime. In addition, reverse flows of perished and defective products are consider...

Robust closed-loop global supply chain network design under uncertainty: the case of the medical device industry

A parallel variable neighborhood search for the multi-objective sustainable post-sales network design problem

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Ehsan Nikbakhsh

Papers

Survey: Hub location problems: A review of models, classification, solution techniques, and applications

Robust closed-loop supply chain network design for perishable goods in agile manufacturing under uncertainty

Robust closed-loop global supply chain network design under uncertainty: the case of the medical device industry

A parallel variable neighborhood search for the multi-objective sustainable post-sales network design problem

Supply chain management 1982-2015 : a review