Sustainable Optimization of Supply Chain System

Dear Colleagues,

SC and production systems nowadays are globalized and partners are distributed geographically around the world, since currently, it is possible that for a product, the raw materials are extracted in a country, processed in a second country, assembled or converted into a final product in a third and distributed and marketed in other countries (Jean, Kim, & Bello, 2017). Some authors indicate that, for some products, 60% of the total cost thereof is associated with supply chain and logistics activities (Wang, Guo, Yan, & Wang, 2018), and then sustainable supply chain optimization is an interesting research area. This Special Issue is aimed to identify different tools, methodologies, techniques and strategies that managers, engineers and supervisors are applying to improve the supply chains' sustainability performance and that allow them to generate a competitive advantage to keep the company in the globalized market with low cost in products and having social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

All the selected papers must help to understand the application of tools, methodologies, techniques, and strategies in supply chain optimization, illustrating how managers have focused the cost reduction, partners integration, use of information and communication technologies for fast decision making, algorithms that seek to optimize resources with low cost and environmental impact, human resources involvement for sustainability, information flow among partners, among others. The papers can come from sectors such as automotive, aerospace, agricultural, healthcare, tourism, mining, and forest, to mention a few. The Special Issue is open to receiving theoretical, case studies and real-world contributions on different topics and aspects of sustainable optimization in the supply chain.

Keywords

• The green supplier selection problem
• Reverse logistics and collection of used products
• Optimal plant location
• Environmental routes optimization
• Infrastructure for sustainable procurement and distribution
• Software in sustainable supply chain
• Software and hardware integration in the supply chain
• Techniques and methodologies for sustainable production
• ICT in Sustainable supply chain
• Government regulations in sustainable supply chain
• The risk with hazardous materials
• Green procurement
• Green layout
• Green production process
• Green distribution

References

Jean, R. J. B., Kim, D., & Bello, D. C. (2017). Relationship-based product innovations: Evidence from the global supply chain. Journal of Business Research, 80, 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.07.008

Wang, X., Guo, H., Yan, R., & Wang, X. (2018). Achieving optimal performance of supply chain under cost information asymmetry. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 53, 523-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2017.09.002

Prof. Dr. Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz
Prof. Dr. Cuauhtémoc Sánchez Ramírez
Dr. Arturo Realyvasquez Vargas
Guest Editors

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• lean manufacturing
• supply chain optimization
• lean supply chain
• sustainable supply chain
• environmental impact
• system dynamics
• inventory management
• environmental analysis
• human factor in supply chain
• risk in supply chain