Logistics outsourcing has become a strategy for companies so that they can focus on their core competency and increase their competitive advantages. Although there has been a wide range of studies on the selection of Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers during the operation and supply chain...

One of the most essential factors in a company's overall supply chain management success is the location of its manufacturing facilities. Due to the emerging energy crisis, the demand for insulation materials is rising, which increases the competition for insulation material companies. To stay...

Government macro-control through various policies is an important way to mitigate air pollution and greenhouse gases. Therefore, environmental tax is used worldwide as an important measure. However, few studies have considered the interaction between carbon and environmental protection taxes....

Background: This study aimed to identify the most widespread performance objectives for the vehicle routing problem, the degree of comparative importance attributed to each of these performance objectives in the opinion of professionals in the logistics area working in Brazil and also relate...

Today's volatile market conditions in electronic industries have lead to a new production system, seru (which is the Japanese pronunciation for cell), and has been widely implemented in hundreds of Japanese and other Asia companies. In particular, the rotating seru has been widely implemented,...

The problem of designing a rebalancing algorithm for a large-scale ridehailing system with asymmetric (unbalanced) demand is considered here. We pose the rebalancing problem within a semi Markov decision problem (SMDP) framework with closed queues of vehicles serving stationary, but asymmetric...

Background: Nowadays, variable domination structure is instrumental in studying multiobjective decision making problems. We investigate multiobjective location problems with respect to variable domination structure and its applications in supply chain management. Methods: We formulate practical...