Purpose: Due to the introduction of new vaccines in the child immunization program and inefficient vaccine supply chain (VSC), the universal immunization program (UIP), India is struggling to provide a full schedule of vaccination to the targeted children. In this paper,...

Purpose: Delivering vaccines to the children who need them requires a supply chain that is efficient and effective. In most of the developing countries, however, the unknown and unresolved supply chain issues are causing inefficiencies in distributing vaccines. There is, therefore, a great need...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) of vaccine supply chain of Universal Immunization Program (UIP) India, and measure their impact on vaccine supply chain performance improvement, so that results of this study can help the decision makers...

Optimization of Inventory and Transportation in Supply Chains -- Scheduling in Manufacturing and Service Systems -- Forecasting and Information Analysis in Supply Chains -- Soft Computing and Machine Learning Techniques and Applications in Operations and Supply Chain Management -- Logistics and...