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Optimal Decisions in Sustainable Supply Chains Impacted by Health Crisis

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 18298

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Prof. Dr. Nidhal Rezg

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Laboratory of Informatics Engineering, Production and Maintenance (LGIPM), Lorraine University, Nancy, France
Interests: manufacturing/remanufacturing; maintenance/production; simulation; discrete event system theory; risk assessment
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Dr. Sadok Turki

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Laboratory of Informatics Engineering, Production and Maintenance (LGIPM), Logistic and Maintenance departemnt, University of lorraine, 57070 Metz, France
Interests: sustainable supply chain systems; transport and delivery; optimization methods and operations research; production and maintenance planning; risk assessment; assembly/disassembly systems
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Dr. Sofiene Dellagi

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LGIPM laboratory, University of Lorraine, 57073 Metz, France
Interests: reliability; maintenance management; supply chain management; risk assessment; optimization methods
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Dr. Zied Hajej

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LGIPM laboratory, University of Lorraine, 57073 Metz, France
Interests: reliability; maintenance management ; supply chain management; logistic; production; risk assessment; IA; optimization methods
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Dr. Med Ali Kammoun

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LGIPM laboratory, University of Lorraine, 57073 Metz, France
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the serious health crisis (i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic), almost all countries in the world have adopted strict containment measures, by confining people to their homes. This has disturbed national and global supply chains. Indeed, almost all supply chain firms have experienced difficulties, such as a brutal increase in the consumption of certain types of products, and a decrease in demand for other products, lack of workforce and of raw materials, and an increase of home delivery orders. Consequently, during this health crisis, many firm leaders have been working hard to find the best solutions for sustainable supply chains, in order to satisfy their customers. Furthermore, after the epidemic’s peak, many countries will begin their exit strategy and ‘normal’ life will resume. This will disturb more and more supply chains, as they must adapt to the health measures imposed by governments. These measures will impact many different sectors of sustainable supply chains, such as manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution and collection, transportation, the market of disposable or reusable products, etc. Therefore, decisions should be made in order to best manage supply chains in such a situation.

In light of this situation, authors are invited to submit high-quality research papers on the subject of decision making in sustainable supply chains during the health crisis, or after the epidemic’s peak (containment exit). Research related to the keywords below is welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Nidhal Rezg
Dr. Sadok Turki
Dr. Sofiene Dellagi
Dr. Zied Hajej
Dr. Med Ali Kammoun
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Keywords

  • Optimal decisions in sustainable supply chains
  • Health crisis
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus pandemic
  • Epidemic peak
  • Health measures
  • Demand of disposable or reusable products
  • Scheduling in sustainable manufacturing
  • Manufacturing/remanufacturing decisions
  • Reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain
  • Production planning in sustainable supply chain
  • Maintenance strategies for systems with high production level
  • Sustainable transport and home delivering
  • Carbon footprint and carbon trading

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A Comprehensive Literature Review on Sustainable Horizontal Collaboration
by Nassim Mrabti, Nadia Hamani and Laurent Delahoche
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11644; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811644 - 16 Sep 2022
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Horizontal collaboration is one of the most effective strategies applied to address issues related to sustainability and the adverse effects of commodity distribution. Although it has received increased attention in recent years, no synthesis has been conducted to present the main practices and [...] Read more.
Horizontal collaboration is one of the most effective strategies applied to address issues related to sustainability and the adverse effects of commodity distribution. Although it has received increased attention in recent years, no synthesis has been conducted to present the main practices and sustainability indicators used to assess the performance of horizontal collaboration. In addition, the factors that can further improve the performance of horizontal collaboration in terms of sustainability have not been presented in any literature review. Thus, we expose, in this paper, a review of the existing studies dealing with horizontal collaboration, and we define the key indicators used to measure its performance. The most commonly used practices of horizontal collaboration are also illustrated. In fact, the main objectives of the present study are to highlight the impact of certain factors on the success of collaboration and to identify several guidelines for researchers and companies wishing to implement horizontal collaboration. Full article
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Designing a Resilient and Sustainable Logistics Network under Epidemic Disruptions and Demand Uncertainty
by Aymen Aloui, Nadia Hamani and Laurent Delahoche
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 14053; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132414053 - 20 Dec 2021
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To face the new challenges caused by modern industry, logistics operations managers need to focus more on integrating sustainability goals, adapt to unexpected disruptions and find new strategies and models for logistics management. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that unforeseen fragilities, negatively affecting [...] Read more.
To face the new challenges caused by modern industry, logistics operations managers need to focus more on integrating sustainability goals, adapt to unexpected disruptions and find new strategies and models for logistics management. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that unforeseen fragilities, negatively affecting the supply chain performance, can arise rapidly, and logistics systems may confront unprecedented vulnerabilities regarding network structure disruption and high demand fluctuations. The existing studies on a resilient logistics network design did not sufficiently consider sustainability aspects. In fact, they mainly addressed the independent planning of decision-making problems with economic objectives. To fill this research gap, this paper concentrates on the design of resilient and sustainable logistics networks under epidemic disruption and demand uncertainty. A two-stage stochastic mixed integer programming model is proposed to integrate key decisions of location–allocation, inventory and routing planning. Moreover, epidemic disruptions and demand uncertainty are incorporated through plausible scenarios using a Monte Carlo simulation. In addition, two resiliency strategies, namely, capacity augmentation and logistics collaboration, are included into the basic model in order to improve the resilience and the sustainability of a logistics chain network. Finally, numerical examples are presented to validate the proposed approach, evaluate the performance of the different design models and provide managerial insights. The obtained results show that the integration of two design strategies improves resilience and sustainability. Full article
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Quasi-Optimal Sizing of a Vehicle Fleet Considering Environmental Impact, Maintenance, and Eventual Containment Measures
by Malek Ben Mechlia, Jérémie Schutz, Sofiene Dellagi and Anis Chelbi
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4384; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084384 - 14 Apr 2021
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In this paper, N types of vehicles having different environmental impacts and different failure rates are considered to perform a set of missions during a predefined period. The sizing problem of the fleet of vehicles is typically based on the literature for the [...] Read more.
In this paper, N types of vehicles having different environmental impacts and different failure rates are considered to perform a set of missions during a predefined period. The sizing problem of the fleet of vehicles is typically based on the literature for the environmental impact of each type of vehicle. This work intends to develop a model that allows considering not only the extent of recourse to non-polluting vehicles but also the preventive maintenance (PM) policy to be adopted for each of the N types of vehicles. More specifically, the objective of this work consists in determining simultaneously the quasi-optimal number of vehicles of each type to be used, the duration of their use, and their average usage rate as well as the period according to which each type of vehicle should be submitted to preventive maintenance. A mathematical model is developed to express and optimize the expected total cost, which includes the costs related to acquisition, operating, maintenance, and environmental impact in addition to considering the resale value. Then, the situation of using the acquired vehicle fleet in a context of a health crisis with containment measures is considered. The latter make it impossible to perform preventive maintenance actions during the containment period. For such situations, given the accumulated degradation in absence of preventive maintenance, the cost model is modified to generate a new preventive maintenance plan to be applied for each vehicle after the containment exit. Numerical results related to fuel and electric vehicles of two brands (Renault and Nissan) are presented and discussed. Full article
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Reuse of Filtering Facepiece Respirators in the COVID-19 Era
by Joren Van Loon, Lore Veelaert, Sander Van Goethem, Regan Watts, Stijn Verwulgen, Jouke C. Verlinden and Els Du Bois
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 797; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020797 - 15 Jan 2021
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an immense and unforeseen increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers worldwide. Amongst other products, respirator masks are crucial to protect the users against transmission of the virus. Decontamination and reuse of [...] Read more.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an immense and unforeseen increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers worldwide. Amongst other products, respirator masks are crucial to protect the users against transmission of the virus. Decontamination and reuse of the existing stock could be a solution to the shortage of new respirators. Based upon existing studies, it was found that (I) a solid quality control method is essential to test product reuse, (II) in-depth evaluation of the different parts of the filtering facepiece respirator (FFR) should be considered, and (III) communication of the reuse cycle is essential to take track of the amount of reuse, as this is limited to ensure quality. The goal of this paper is two-fold. First, we identify the impact of decontamination on the different parts of the FFRs and how the quality control should be performed. Two different types of FFRs are analysed within this paper, resulting in the recommendation of combining quantitative respirator mask fit testing with a thorough sensory evaluation of decontaminated FFRs to qualify them for reuse. Secondly, the possibilities of communication of this reuse to the eventual user are mapped through in-depth reasoning. Full article
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