Supply chain management is concerned with the efficient integration of interconnected entities so that products are sourced, manufactured and distributed in the right quantities, to the right locations and at the right time, thus satisfying customer requirements at minimal total system cost. Such systems…
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Despite the increased interest in social sustainability there is still lack of information for the social assessment, as well as a lack of appropriate quantitative social sustainability indicators to perform such assessment. In this paper, there is proposed a set of 31 quantitative social sustainability…
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This paper studies the network design for a multi-product, multi-echelon and multi-period closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) accounting for decisions on the manufacture of new products and remanufactured versions of the new products. It is important to note that the design for…
Continue ReadingIncreased interest for sustainability reporting has been provoking both, companies and academics to deepen their research in sustainability and therefore on sustainability indicators. When assessing social sustainability a lack of knowledge is present and due to the increased stakeholders’ pressures…
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Supply Chains are complex networks that demand for decision supporting tools that can help the involved decision making process. Following this need the present paper studies the supply chain design and planning problem and proposes an optimization model to support the associated…
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This paper considers the optimal design and planning problem of a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) where profit maximization is pursued while considering: adjustments in the network structure during the planning horizon providing flexibility to the network as well as uncertainty in supply and customer…
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