Sustainable Supply Chain is nowadays an increasing area of concern for both academia and industry that aims to design, plan and operate supply chains that guarantee market needs while considering not only profit objectives but also environmental and social concerns in a solution of compromise…
Continue ReadingGlobalization has increased the exposure of Supply Chains (SC) to higher uncertainties that call for adequate strategies, thus supporting the creation of SC Resilience. There is, however, no absolute strategy that decision makers can follow to guarantee such resilience and the knowledge on how to…
Continue ReadingTaking into account the increase of business competitiveness and legislation compliance faced by industry’s SC, environmental SC problems became a reality that companies have to deal with. This work is developed along this line and proposes a mixed integer linear programming model (MILP)…
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This work presents ToBLoOM – Triple Bottom Line Optimization Modeling, a decision support tool for the design and planning of sustainable supply chains. It consists of a multi-objective mixed integer linear programming model which integrates several interconnected decisions: facility location and…
Continue ReadingWhile planning to expand its tissue paper business, a Portuguese company aims to explore options regarding the design and planning of its supply chain accounting not only for economic objectives but also environmental and social concerns (the three pillars of sustainability). A multi-objective mixed…
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