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  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,440 Views
33 Pages

12 April 2024

In response to the ever-increasing pursuit of competitiveness among organizations in today’s global business landscape, the subject of supply chain management has become a vital domain encompassing a wide range of sectors and industries across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,221 Views
23 Pages

27 December 2021

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. Desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
25,693 Views
15 Pages

18 January 2022

Technological advancement and the highly competitive nature of business have forced organizations to use multiple strategies to streamline their business operations. Current research investigates the relationship between sustainable supply chain mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,179 Views
12 Pages

Sustainable Closed-Loop Mask Supply Chain Network Design Using Mathematical Modeling and a Fuzzy Multi-Objective Approach

  • Roy Setiawan,
  • Rabia Salman,
  • Bari Galimovich Khairov,
  • Valeriy Vasilyevich Karpov,
  • Svetlana Dmitrievna Danshina,
  • Lidia Vladimirovna Vasyutkina,
  • Natalia Alekseevna Prodanova,
  • Viacheslav Zhenzhebir,
  • Evgeny Nuyanzin and
  • Ali Hasanzadeh Kalajahi
  • + 1 author

11 May 2021

The outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, which is increasing the number of victims every day, has created many changes in today’s world. The use of various masks is the most important social tool against this virus. Given the importance of rapid and q...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
693 Views
9 Pages

The reverse logistics of medical textiles has become a major concern in Morocco today, compelling authorities and professionals to develop a sustainable reverse logistics model. This study proposes a model for designing a sustainable closed-loop supp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,602 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2021

Nowadays, Supply Chain Networks (SCNs) must respond to economic, environmental, social, and uncertain considerations. Thus, sustainable and resilience criteria need to be incorporated as key criteria into the Supply Chain Network Design (SCND). This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,222 Views
24 Pages

Designing a sustainable supply chain network for perishable products is challenging due to their short shelf life and sensitivity to environmental conditions. These factors necessitate strict quality control and efficient logistics. The emergence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
143 Citations
17,250 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Network Design under Disruption Risks

  • Sonia Irshad Mari,
  • Young Hae Lee and
  • Muhammad Saad Memon

29 September 2014

Sustainable supply chain network design is a rich area for academic research that is still in its infancy and has potential to affect supply chain performance. Increasing regulations for carbon and waste management are forcing firms to consider their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,233 Views
27 Pages

Multi-Objective Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design Considering Multiple Products with Different Quality Levels

  • Amirhossein Soon,
  • Ali Heidari,
  • Mohammad Khalilzadeh,
  • Jurgita Antucheviciene,
  • Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas and
  • Farbod Zahedi

International laws and increasing consumer awareness have led to drastic changes in traditional supply chain network designs. Moreover, because of environmental and social requirements, traditional supply chain networks have changed to sustainable su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,004 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2025

Environmental concerns and the increasing scarcity of resources force decision makers in the supply chain to consider reuse and re-production. Closed loop supply chain is a fundamental concept that has attracted the attention of many researchers due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,720 Views
24 Pages

Fuzzy Optimization and Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Supply Chain Design: Applications in the Dairy Industry

  • Pablo Flores-Siguenza,
  • Victor Lopez-Sanchez,
  • Julio Mosquera-Gutierres,
  • Juan Llivisaca-Villazhañay,
  • Marlon Moscoso-Martínez and
  • Rodrigo Guamán

19 June 2025

The increasing emphasis on integrating sustainability into corporate operations has prompted supply chain managers to incorporate not only economic objectives but also environmental and social considerations into their network designs. This study pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,881 Views
24 Pages

16 October 2019

Supply chain network design (SCND) is an important strategic decision determining the structure of each entity in the supply chain, which has an important impact on the long-term development of a company. An efficient and effective supply chain netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,206 Views
25 Pages

14 February 2021

Supply chain network design problem is increasingly showing its importance, especially the perishable supply chain. This research develops a multi-objective mathematical model to design four-echelon intermodal multi-product perishable supply chain co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,777 Views
28 Pages

29 September 2022

The decision-making of sustainable supply chain network (SSCN) design is a strategy capacity for configuring network facility and product flow. When optimizing conflicting economic, environmental, and social performance objectives, it is difficult to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,822 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2022

Sustainable closed-loop supply chain (SCLSC) network design and decision-making is a critical problem for enterprises and organizations’ operations because of its excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. This article proposes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
12,540 Views
67 Pages

15 August 2024

The current study focuses on the critical role of efficient cold supply chain logistics (CSCL) within the beef meat supply chain (SC), ensuring the timely delivery of premium products. Despite its significance, substantial food loss and waste (FLW) i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
16,836 Views
23 Pages

17 October 2016

The possibilities of applying Operations Research (O.R.) techniques in the design of real-world systems are vast. The optimization and design of the supply chain network (SCN) is one of the relevant topics that has directed the attention of many scho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,069 Views
19 Pages

An Optimization Model for the Design of a Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management System

  • Ahmed Shaban,
  • Fatma-Elzahraa Zaki,
  • Islam H. Afefy,
  • Giulio Di Gravio,
  • Andrea Falegnami and
  • Riccardo Patriarca

23 May 2022

Solid waste management is critical to sustainable, healthy, and eco-friendly cities and societies. In developing countries, only a small percentage of municipal solid waste is disposed safely, while the majority remains in the streets or disposed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,206 Views
22 Pages

16 October 2016

Researchers and practitioners are taking more interest in developing sustainable garment supply chains in recent times. On the other hand, the supply chain manager drops sustainability objectives while coping with unexpected natural and man-made disr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,529 Views
25 Pages

Application of Exact and Multi-Heuristic Approaches to a Sustainable Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Design

  • Abdul Salam Khan,
  • Qazi Salman Khalid,
  • Khawar Naeem,
  • Rafiq Ahmad,
  • Razaullah Khan,
  • Waqas Saleem and
  • Catalin Iulian Pruncu

24 February 2021

Closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) are gaining popularity due to their efficiency in addressing economic, environmental, and social concerns. An important point to ponder in the distribution of CLSC is that imperfect refrigeration and bad road conditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,862 Views
37 Pages

A Strategic Location Decision-Making Approach for Multi-Tier Supply Chain Sustainability

  • Petchprakai Sirilertsuwan,
  • Sébastien Thomassey and
  • Xianyi Zeng

10 October 2020

Few studies on supply location decisions focus on enhancing triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability in supply chains; they rarely employ objective quantifiable measurements which help ensure consistent and transparent decisions or reveal relationship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,955 Views
20 Pages

Blood platelets are a typical instance of perishable age-differentiated products with a shelf life of five days (on average), which may lead to significant wastage of some collected samples. At the same time, a shortage of platelets may also be obser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,414 Views
17 Pages

Closed-Loop Supply Chain Design and Pricing in Competitive Conditions by Considering the Variable Value of Return Products Using the Whale Optimization Algorithm

  • Muhammad Salman Shabbir,
  • Ahmed Faisal Siddiqi,
  • Lis M. Yapanto,
  • Evgeny E. Tonkov,
  • Andrey Leonidovich Poltarykhin,
  • Anna Valeryevna Pilyugina,
  • Aleksandr Mikhailovich Petrov,
  • Amin Foroughi and
  • Dinara A. Valiullina

11 June 2021

In today’s competitive environment, organizations, in addition to trying to improve their production conditions, have a special focus on their supply chain components. Cooperation between supply chain members always reduces unforeseen costs and speed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,266 Views
31 Pages

Optimizing Resilient Sustainable Citrus Supply Chain Design

  • Sherin Bishara,
  • Nermine Harraz,
  • Hamdy Elwany and
  • Hadi Fors

Background: Growing environmental concerns and the vulnerability of global supply chains to disruptions, such as pandemics, natural disasters, and logistical failures, necessitate the design of sustainable and resilient supply chains. Methods: A nove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
990 Views
33 Pages

1 August 2025

Natural fiber-based biocomposites are rapidly gaining traction in sustainable manufacturing. However, their supply chain (SC) designs at the feedstock pre-processing stage often lack robust multicriteria decision-making evaluations, which can impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
20,197 Views
29 Pages

21 July 2021

In recent decades, the forest industry has been growingly expanded due to economic conditions, climate changes, environmental and energy policies, and intense demand changes. Thus, appropriate planning is required to improve this industry. To achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,174 Views
16 Pages

Robust Optimization Model for Sustainable Supply Chain Design Integrating LCA

  • Pablo Flores-Siguenza,
  • Jose Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo and
  • Joaquina Niembro-Garcia

22 September 2023

Supply chain management is the basis for the operations in an organization. The development of realistic supply chain designs that work effectively in the presence of disturbances in a stochastic environment and incorporate sustainability factors, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,893 Views
29 Pages

Background: Agro-food supply chains possess specific characteristics due to the diverse nature of products involved and contribute to all three pillars of sustainability, making the optimal design of a sustainable agro-food supply chain a complex pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,379 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, a sustainable closed-loop supply chain problem is modelled in conditions of uncertainty. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the designed supply chain network seeks to deliver medical equipment to hospitals on time within a defined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,358 Views
13 Pages

16 January 2019

A product environmental footprint is a multi-criteria measure for environmental sustainability. Most of these environmental criteria are either synergies (non-trade-offs) or compromises (trade-offs) within environmental metrics. This forms a multi-ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,554 Views
21 Pages

“Food Village”: An Innovative Alternative Food Network Based on Human Scale Development Economic Model

  • Giordano Stella,
  • Biancamaria Torquati,
  • Chiara Paffarini,
  • Giorgia Giordani,
  • Lucio Cecchini and
  • Roberto Poletti

17 May 2022

Although the different alternative food networks (AFNs) have experienced increases worldwide for the last thirty years, they are still unable to provide an alternative capable of spreading on a large scale. They in fact remain niche experiments due t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,231 Views
31 Pages

The ever-increasing concerns of the growth in the volume of waste tires and new strict government legislations to reduce the environmental impact of the end-of-life (EOL) tires have increased interest among companies to design a sustainable and effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,243 Views
19 Pages

Integrated Land Suitability Assessment for Depots Siting in a Sustainable Biomass Supply Chain

  • Ange-Lionel Toba,
  • Rajiv Paudel,
  • Yingqian Lin,
  • Rohit V. Mendadhala and
  • Damon S. Hartley

22 February 2023

A sustainable biomass supply chain would require not only an effective and fluid transportation system with a reduced carbon footprint and costs, but also good soil characteristics ensuring durable biomass feedstock presence. Unlike existing approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,077 Views
15 Pages

14 September 2022

A continuous increase in the world population and reduction in quantity and quality of resources is putting enormous pressure on nations to ensure a balance between food demand and supply. The same is highlighted at number two in the United Nations&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,681 Views
15 Pages

3 December 2020

Organisations are challenged with executing innovation for sustainable development within the context of their operations and value networks—networks which are increasingly fuelled by mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and which accounted for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,335 Views
15 Pages

Complexity Assessment of Assembly Supply Chains from the Sustainability Viewpoint

  • Vladimir Modrak,
  • Zuzana Soltysova and
  • Daniela Onofrejova

13 December 2019

Assembly supply chain systems are becoming increasingly complex and, as a result, there is more and more need to design and manage them in a way that benefits the producers and also satisfies the interests of community stakeholders. The structural (s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,296 Views
25 Pages

Background: The growing concern for environmental and social issues has led to a focus on designing sustainable supply chains and increasing industrial responsibility towards society. In this paper, a multi-objective mixed-integer programming model i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,296 Views
15 Pages

Fostering the Reuse of Manufacturing Resources for Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains

  • Alessia Napoleone,
  • Alessandro Bruzzone,
  • Ann-Louise Andersen and
  • Thomas Ditlev Brunoe

12 May 2022

In the current context characterized by turbulent market conditions and the increasing relevance of sustainability requirements, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) offer great potentialities for supply chains and networks. While plenty of co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,669 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2017

Bioenergy is an important renewable energy source in the UK, but the bioenergy industry and in particular the wood fuel sub sector, is relatively under-developed. Socioeconomic factors have been identified as critical for facilitating deployment leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,348 Views
14 Pages

An Internet of Things Embedded Sustainable Supply Chain Management of B2B E-Commerce

  • Dhirendra Prajapati,
  • Felix T. S. Chan,
  • H. Chelladurai,
  • Lakshay Lakshay and
  • Saurabh Pratap

22 April 2022

Adopting digital technologies in a business can help with sustainable supply chain management. These technologies can make e-commerce development faster and empower the emergence of B2B e-commerce businesses. In this study, our focus was to develop a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,740 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2023

Drawing on systems theory, the extended resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this research develops an integrated framework to offer a more nuanced understanding of the mediating role of dynamic capabilities between supply chain cluster...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,154 Views
22 Pages

6 September 2023

Disruption risks exacerbate the complexity of low-carbon supply chain network design in an uncertain supply chain environment. Considering the low frequency and non-repeatability of these disruption events makes it impossible to collect data to obtai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,361 Views
30 Pages

29 March 2023

Supplier selection and order allocation (SS-OA) are two of the most important strategic decisions for supply chain network design and operation. If sustainability and resilience criteria are taken into consideration together and a holistic sustainabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
361 Views
27 Pages

26 December 2025

Food supply chains play a critical role in advancing sustainability within today’s food systems. In this work, we construct a differential equation-based model with a four-layer supply chain framework that captures the intricate relationships a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,020 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2024

As global economic integration and rapid technological advancements transform international business, international engineering contracting has become essential for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). This paper investigates the significa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,934 Views
19 Pages

Sustainable Agro-Food Supply Chain in E-Commerce: Towards the Circular Economy

  • Dhirendra Prajapati,
  • Fuli Zhou,
  • Ashish Dwivedi,
  • Tripti Singh,
  • Lakshay Lakshay and
  • Saurabh Pratap

15 July 2022

The continuous decline in the sustainable agro-food supply chain (AFSC) towards a Circular Economy (CE) has become a matter of great concern for the key stakeholders, including government organizations, businesses, end-users, and farmers. In line wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,260 Views
44 Pages

Against global industrial upgrading and China’s “dual-carbon” policy, the cold chain for fresh products faces numerous challenges such as supply disruptions, demand fluctuations, and low-carbon transformation. This study focuses on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,951 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2014

Despite the plethora of literature in sustainability and supply chain management in the recent years, a quantitative tool that measures the sustainability performance of an industrial supply network, considering the uncertainties of existing data, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,040 Views
24 Pages

10 November 2025

Environmental information fraud, such as greenwashing, severely impedes the achievement of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Blockchain technology, as an innovation tool with a sustainability orientation, offers new possibilities for impro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,628 Views
33 Pages

Bibliometric and Text Analytics Approaches to Review COVID-19 Impacts on Supply Chains

  • Nishant Saravanan,
  • Jessica Olivares-Aguila and
  • Alejandro Vital-Soto

29 November 2022

The current COVID-19 pandemic has virtually disrupted supply chains worldwide. Thus, supply chain research has received significant attention. While the impacts have been immeasurable, organizations have realized the need to design strategies to over...

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