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Background: Sustainability is one of the most controversial issues in companies’ supply chain these days. Moreover, growing environmental, social, and ethical concerns have scrambled up the push of organizations to adopt sustainable business enforcement into their operations.Purpose: The aim of the study was to examine the current status of sustainability of supply chains and how it is measured. The goal of this study is to answer the research question: How organizations measure their sustainable supply chain performance with Key Performance Indicators? Method: To comprehensively answer the research question, a qualitative research approach was chosen, and the primary empirical data was... 

In This article, we aimed to estimate impact of dual sourcing strategy on environmental implication and show how this strategy can ameliorate the emission of greenhouse gases. For this purpose, first we define comprehensive NLP models for splitting order problem with carbon emission cap and carbon emission Trade-Cap policy. Then customized sequential quadratic programming approach had been developed for solving these models. In addition, customized Genetic Algorithm validated this approach. Finally numerical results show that order splitting strategy cause to reduction in costs and emission at same time. Beside this outcome, we show the so-called Trade- Cap policy almost performs better than... 

A sustainable supply chain requires constant sustainable changes in the design and performance of its steps. The main characteristic of sustainability is the consideration of social, environmental and economic criteria in strategic and operational decisions. Due to the great importance of the sustainability in transportation network, proper planning and careful design for this issue in recent years has been considered and welcomed by relevant researchers. In this research we want to provide an integrated frame work for transportation network design toward sustainability. In this regard, we also use 3D printing technology as our innovation in operations. Our main issue is the Inventory... 

Pistachio trade in Iran is of great importance in non-oil exports, and this country has been the main producer of this product for many years. In recent years, unfortunately, pistachio products have fallen sharply in the country, and on the other hand, the United States has been able to take a large share of the global market. The researchers have presented numerous reviews about the causes of this problem, most notably drought and water scarcity, inefficient agriculture, and the lack of comprehensive and efficient management of the pistachio supply chain. In this research, to address these problems, attention has been paid to sustainable supply chain management that addresses three... 

Growing concerns towards social and environmental issues besides economic in supply chain causes that the sustainable supply chain become one of the most important concepts in a supply chain. Likewise, a supply chain network design which is profound influence on long-run economic, environmental, and social decisions is one of the key and strategic topics in a supply chain. In this study, we represent an integrated approach for a three-layer sustainable supply chain network design with routing and different transportation modes, the objectives of which are minimizing total costs, a minimizing 〖CO〗_2 emissions of transportation, and maximizing total values of social purchasing. In this... 

Financial benefits are no longer the only decision makers’ criteria and they consider environmental and social merits due to the modern nature of management and international competing. As a result, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) rises noticeably in popularity among academics for researching on it and industrialists for applying it. Having reviewed respective researches, The SSCM is addressed by an integrated approach in this rsearch for selecting green suppliers and finding optimal production plan in two phase. In first phase, thank to related literature, a framework including environmental criteria is purposed for evaluating suppliers by Analytic network process method (ANP).... 

This thesis proposes a new non-linear multi-objective Location-Inventory-Routing problem (LIRP( for perishable products considering multi trips for vehicles. Managing the expiration date of perishable products, speed of vehicles in the system, the frequency of using the vehicles and etc. bring complexity in LIRP in this problem.
First objective focuses on maximizing profits calculated by Incomes of selling goods with different worthwhile depend on their remained life time and costs of inventory and distribution as well as ordering. Minimizing CO_2 emmition as the environmental issue has been considered as the second objective. Third objective which is minimization of injury rate,... 

Today, with the expansion of business relations at international levels, there are many organizations that operate in global supply chains. Activities at such levels face new types of challenges in various fields of "supply chain management" pillars, of which "supplier selection" is one of them. The possibility of unexpected events, the need to comply with environmental protection laws, as well as the need to take into account social considerations, are among the things that have increased by being in larger supply chains, making it challenging to provide the basic resources needed in such chains and forcing their managers to considering considerations other than what they have always...