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Green Supply Chain Management by Minimizing Carbon Footprint, Case Study KALLEH Meat Products Company

Peyghambarzadeh, Amir Hossein | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: English
  3. Document No: 47186 (53)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, Kish Island
  5. Department: Science and Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Abrishamchi, Ahmad
  7. Abstract:
  8. When increased emissions are combined with a carbon tax or emissions trading system, the result is a supply chain with increased costs attributable to the emission generated on the different parts of supply chain. Most traditional supply chain design models do not take emissions and carbon costs into account. Hence, there is a need to incorporate emission costs into a supply chain optimization model to see how the optimal supply chain configuration may be affected by the additional expenses. This thesis presents a mathematical programming model for the design of green supply chains. The costs of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions were incorporated in the objective function, along with the transportation, production and maintenance costs that are typically modeled in traditional supply chain models. The model also determined the unit flows between the various distribution centers of the supply chain, with the objective of minimizing the total cost of the system. CO2 emissions is due to the power consumption in productions and hold products in refrigeration and by operate transportation in supply chain. For optimizing the total cost , which includes emission costs, a mixed integer linear program has been used and solved by LINGO solver. The models are written in different conditions. The first model is a rigid model on base of KALLEH company. the second model is a flexible model, the third model optimizes carbon trading and the last one compares integrated and independent management in a supply chain. The first and second models optimize total cost and show the amount of CO2 in supply chain. In carbon trading model the total costs of emissions are optimized by minimizing buying credit and maximizing selling credit. The last model shows that integration of supply chain management can reduce emissions to about half. The amount of saving in total cost of plant and carbon footprint reduction in the process are calculated
  9. Keywords:
  10. Supply Chain ; Mixed Integer Programming ; Greenhouse Gases ; Gas Propagation ; Green Loop Supply Chain ; Emission Cost

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