Advances in Operations Research for Logistic and Operations Management of Supply Chain Management

Dear Colleagues,

A supply chain considers different echelons, ranging from suppliers of raw materials, carriers, depots, small suppliers, manufacturers or producers, distribution centers, intermediaries, and end customers—all of which include advanced operations research techniques for solving different strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of the supply chain. These optimization techniques include exact, heuristic, and metaheuristic approaches that consider linear and non-linear supply chain problems. These tools seek to establish viable supply chains, including sustainable aspects, resilience robustness, and agility issues, by considering modern technology aspects based on big data. Viability is the supply chain's ability to survive disruptions due to multiple factors, including environmental, social, and economic aspects. Different works with the triple-bottom line aligned with economic, social, and environmental issues, such as those mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), considering the sustainable aspects of the supply chain. Resilience and robustness are faced with the property of chain recovery due to failures related to disruptions. Finally, agility is the supply chain characteristic that includes technological issues for the recovery of the entire network. All of these aspects for different levels are solved under the framework of the present Special Issue.  

This Special Issue aims to collate original research papers that offer the latest and different advanced operations research techniques aimed toward the development and application of different levels of supply chain management and logistics in a broad range of fields.

Prof. Dr. John Willmer Escobar
Guest Editor

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• heuristic and metaheuristic approaches for supply chain management and logistics
• possibilistic approaches for supply chain management and logistics
• viability of supply chain management
• supply chain optimization and logistics management
• robust approaches for supply chain management
• resilient supply chain optimization
• sustainable supply chains
• green supply chains
• agility supply chains in supply chain management
• operations management in supply chains
• sustainable vehicle routing problems
• social aspects for vehicle routing problems
• economic aspects of vehicle routing problems
• resilient, robust, and stochastic vehicle routing problems