Optimized closed-loop supply chain configuration selection for sustainable product designs

Haritha Metta, Fazleena Badurdeen

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Abstract

Decision support models for coordinating sustainable product and supply chain (SC) design can help a company identify the best product designs that will bring highest sustainability benefits to the entire SC at the product development stage. This paper presents a multi-stage decision support model (developed using a hierarchical approach) that evaluates alternate product designs and their SC configurations to identify the best product design and their closed-loop SC configuration that maximizes profit and also minimize adverse environmental and societal impacts. The model considers a total life-cycle approach and promotes closed-loop flow over multiple product life-cycles. Particularly, this paper provides a detailed description of the mixed integer linear programming model developed to evaluate the impact of alternate product design on their corresponding SC configuration to identify for each design an optimal closed-loop SC configuration that maximizes the profit. The application of the model to an example problem is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2011
Pages438-443
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 7th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2011 - Trieste, Italy
Duration: Aug 24 2011Aug 27 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
ISSN (Print)2161-8070
ISSN (Electronic)2161-8089

Conference

Conference2011 7th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2011
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrieste
Period8/24/118/27/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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