The complexity of managing the port container terminals brings up many challenges in evaluating the global performance, so managers use the Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) to assess the global performance but most of the methods are based in the experts jugements. In the case where we have a false judgment by experts, the final results will be wrong. This paper aims to...
In the pursuit of sustainable development goals, recycling has attracted a high level of attention around the world due to its economic and environmental benefits; however, applying the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) as an effective risk management approach for optimal Design of reverse supply chain (RSC) has been addressed by a few studies. This study mainly aims to achieve an...
The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of organizational culture (OC) on employee engagement (EE) and employee performance (EP) among academic staff of Malaysian Private Universities (MPU). However, studies of such have been given less attention within the context of MPU. Therefore, this paper highlights the issue through a systematic review of previous literature...
Proper storage conditions for pharmaceutical products and paramedical supplies are crucial to maintaining their quality, safety, and efficacy. Poor warehouse management practice may lead to wastage or blockade of financial resources, irrational utilization of drugs, shortage, or overage of essential medicines among many others. The current study aimed to assess the warehouse...
Product customization is considered as the widespread strategy for the actual market trend oriented toward customer focus. In this field, mass customization sights mainly to emerge economy of scale and economy of scope in order to integrate mass production principles with customization abilities. This research views the collaborative management through an integrated procurement...
This paper presents a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) model for a bi- objective and multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows. The main goals of the paper are minimization of total cost and equitable distribution of commodities between vehicles. Two types of vehicle including delivery and installation vehicles are utilized in the network regarding...
In recent times there is surge in the sustainable supply chain field. The focus of the present work is targeted towards viewing the major aspects of SSCM by focusing towards SSCM through the lens of meta-analysis by performing a structured literature review with the help of the already published articles available on SCOPUS database. A total of 369 articles have been identified...
Providing job rotation schedules among certain individuals of organizations has been the research focus in the field of job rotation. Obviously, any movement of people will cause a change in the position of others and if there are no properly defined criteria for movement, the resulting job rotation not only is not effective in the long run but also may cause serious damage to...
Sales territory design is an important research field because salesforce allocation within territories impacts sales organization effectiveness and customer service. This work presents a novel multi-objective model for re-designing sales territories with three main objectives: sales balancing, workload balancing, and geographic balancing. To measure sales and workload balancing...
Urban delivery, especially the last-mile delivery, has become an increasingly important area in the global supply chain along with the boom of e-commerce. Delivery companies and merchants can introduce some innovative solutions such as the equipment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) to decrease their operating costs, environmental impact, and social risks during the delivery process...
Corporate social responsibility plays an important role in associating customers with socially responsible firms. Faithful consumers are willing to give extra money for commodities or services that incentive the firms to take corporate social responsibility (CSR). This article studies the coordination issue in a two-stage supply chain which is composed of a manufacturer and a...
The facility layout design and Cell Formation (CF) problems are the important sectors in designing a cellular manufacturing system (CMS). These problems are interrelated and simultaneous consideration of them is essential for a successful design of CMS. In this paper, a new non-linear mixed integer programming model is presented to solve the integrated cell formation and inter...
In this paper, an integer linear programming formulation is developed for a novel fuzzy multi-period multi-depot vehicle routing problem. The novelty belongs to both the model and the solution methodology. In the proposed model, vehicles are not forced to return to their starting depots. The fuzzy problem is transformed into a mixed-integer programming problem by applying...
The abrogation of Multifiber Arrangement in the year 2005 pushed many developing nations into tough competition. Within the textile industry, despite having many advantages apparel manufacturing and exporting organizations (AMEOs) in developing nations are experiencing decline in their supply chain supply chain performance. Developing a comprehensive model to explore and classify...
Improving the economic and environmental performance has become the main interest of the businesses to get the sustainability in touch in the long time. As a result of environmentally activities and reduction of resources for economic life, many companies use the reverse and the forward supply chain incorporation together; thus, in the present century the major challenge facing...
In Location-Arc Routing Problems (LARP), unlike the well-known locating-routing problems, demand is on the arc and using deadheading arcs is permitted. Few studies have focused on an arc-routing problem. In this research, a complex bi-objective linear mathematical model for the LARP with time windows under uncertainty is presented. Time windows in the arc-routing problem modeling...
Industry 4.0 technologies have capacities to improve competitiveness in the logistics chain by taking advantage of information flow through the logistics processes. This paper aims to determine the influence of effective and new information flow on logistics management in Nigeria. The methodology used in this study includes; the quantitative methodology, a mean item score...
In recent times, the circular economy has gained much attention due to its emphasis on sustainability. Likewise, reverse logistics also plays a significant role in embracing and practical implications of the circular economy in the supply chain process. Disposition is among the critical factors that can strongly relate to reverse logistics in the light of sustainable practices...
Sustainability and low-carbon manufacturing have been under the scrutiny of the academics and practitioners, along with the governmental and non-governmental organizations. Not to mention the growing awareness and concern of the consumers about the carbon footprint, leading the researchers to the joint problem of sustainable supply chain coordination and emission abatement. This...
In this study, a two-stage mathematical model has been developed that facilitates tactical planning of supply of apples from the various location of farmers to the marketplaces and then to the cold storage facilities. The model enables efficient network planning by finding the most suitable and cost-effective dispatching method operating in multiple stages using a mixed fleet of...
There are several critical measures in the project performance evaluation such as time, cost, and quality. In this paper, a new method for project performance evaluation is presented by combining the project Golden Triangle and the methods in decision science. At first, strategies and measures are introduced for the perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) method according to...
In the present work, selection of right corrugated box supplier for fibre industry is studied. Decision makers independently evaluate the supplier’s strength for both qualitative (quality, reliability, flexibility, stability, capability, and availability) and quantitative (order volume, price, delivery, credit period and location) criteria’s with conflict in nature. Inappropriate...
Today, editing a pattern to evaluate the project management competency based on professional values and principles in order to select, evaluate, and elevate the project manpower will be very effective in the professional excellence and growth in the specialized field regarding project-oriented organizations. For a project manager to perform successfully in a particular area of...
Short life cycle products, especially food products, require a certain type of supply chain management due to their particular specifications such as perishability. On the other hand, the food distribution also requires special considerations and imparts more complexity compared with the distribution of other goods because in food distribution the quality of the food delivered to...
Reneging and Balking are practical aspects of customer impatience. In traditional queuing literature, customer impatience was rarely considered. However, for the last few decades, queuing theorists have been trying to integrate aspect of balking and reneging into modeling of queues. This paper is an extension of the work in the same direction. We consider a multi-server Markovian...