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Design and Optimisation of Supply Chain Networks

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 May 2022) | Viewed by 3475

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani

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School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
Interests: supply chain management; operations management; decision support systems; sustainability; healthcare systems
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Dr. Hamid Afshari

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Financial and Information Management Department, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2, Canada
Interests: sustainable supply chain; applied optimization; business analytics; energy
Dr. Alejandro Vital-Soto

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Financial and Information Management Department, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2, Canada
Interests: operations management; operations research; production scheduling; flexible manufacturing systems; supply chain management; metaheuristics
Dr. Jessica Olivares-Aguila

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Financial and Information Management Department, Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2, Canada
Interests: supply chain management; supply chain disruptions; system dynamics; product design; operations management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Supply chain network design (SCND) involves strategic decisions, such as determining the number, location and capacity of facilities. These decisions play an important role in supply chain management since any changes in them have a significant impact on the network configuration and material flow between facilities. Therefore, there are adequate reasons to consider the triple bottom line―economic, environmental and social pillars―in SCND simultaneously.

Most existing studies have focused on economic and environmental objectives. However, social objectives have not been investigated adequately in SCND, since the mathematical modelling of such objective functions is challenging. Furthermore, there is a lack of understanding of how social aspects can affect the optimal design of SCNs, including their interaction with the economic and environmental objectives.

Additionally, analysis of the fourth industrial revolution’s impacts on SCND for sustainability has received little attention. Industry 4.0 technologies, such as IoT, big data, and cloud computing, can enable the creation of digital ecosystems that set the tone for the foreseeable sustainable supply chain practices.

This Special Issue seeks to collate recent original research and literature review papers dealing with the design and optimization of sustainable supply chain networks.

Dr. Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani
Dr. Hamid Afshari
Dr. Alejandro Vital-Soto
Dr. Jessica Olivares-Aguila
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable supply chain management
  • sustainable operations management
  • sustainable developments
  • Industry 4.0 for sustainability
  • closed-loop supply chain network design
  • circular economy

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A Developed Data Envelopment Analysis Model for Efficient Sustainable Supply Chain Network Design
by Zohreh Moghaddas, Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani and Samuel Yousefi
Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 262; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010262 - 27 Dec 2021
Cited by 9 | Viewed by 2537
Abstract
In recent years, various organizations have focused on considering the sustainability concept in the supply chain (SC) design. Managers try to increase the sustainability of SCs to achieve a competitive advantage in today’s growing market. Designing a sustainable supply chain (SSC) by integrating [...] Read more.
In recent years, various organizations have focused on considering the sustainability concept in the supply chain (SC) design. Managers try to increase the sustainability of SCs to achieve a competitive advantage in today’s growing market. Designing a sustainable supply chain (SSC) by integrating economic, social, and environmental dimensions affects the SC’s overall performance. To achieve the SSC, decision makers (DMs) are required to evaluate different strategies and then apply the most effective one to design SC networks. This study proposes an assessment approach based on the network data envelopment analysis (DEA) to choose an efficient strategy for each stage of an SSC network. This approach seeks to provide a sustainable design with DMs to avoid imposing additional costs on SCs that result from noncompliance with environmental and social issues. To this end, we consider sustainability-concept-related inputs and outputs in the network DEA model to choose the most efficient strategy for SSC design. The strategy selection process can become an important issue, especially when SCs active in a competitive environment. Accordingly, a crucial feature of the presented model is considering the issue of competition to choose the efficient strategy. Furthermore, undesirable outputs and feedbacks and independent inputs and outputs for intermediate stages in the network system are considered to create a structure compatible with the real world. The output of the proposed approach enables DMs to select the appropriate strategy for each stage of the SSC network to maximize the aggregate efficiency of the network. Full article
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