Authors
Maryam Darvish, Claudia Archetti, Leandro C Coelho
Publication date
2019/11/1
Journal
International Journal of Production Economics
Volume
217
Pages
269-280
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
The integration of operational decisions of different supply chain functions is an important success factor in minimizing their total costs. Traditionally, supply chain optimization has merely concentrated on costs or the economic aspects of sustainability, neglecting its environmental and social aspects. However, with the growing concern towards green operations, the impact of short term decisions on the reduction of carbon emissions can no longer be overlooked. In this paper, we aim to compare the effect of operational decisions not only on costs but also on emissions, and we reassess some well-known logistic optimization problems under new objectives. We study two integrated systems dealing with production, inventory, and routing decisions, in which a commodity produced at the plant is shipped to the customers over a finite time horizon. These two problems are known as the production-routing and the …
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