Sustainable design of a closed-loop location-routing-inventory supply chain network under mixed uncertainty

• Published in: Transportation research. Part E, Logistics and transportation review Vol. 89; pp. 182 - 214
• Main Authors: Zhalechian, M., Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R., Zahiri, B., Mohammadi, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Exeter Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 01.05.2016; Elsevier Sequoia S.A; Elsevier
• Subjects: Algorithms; Closed-loop supply chain; Computer Science; Discrete Mathematics; Economics; Environmental impact; Heuristic; Impact analysis; Inventory; Meta-heuristic; Networks; Operations Research; Queuing theory; Routing; Social impact; Stochastic models; Studies; Supply chains; Sustainability; Sustainable design; Transportation; Uncertainty; Routing; Queuing theory; Meta-heuristic; Closed-loop supply chain; Sustainability; Inventory

•Designing a novel sustainable closed-loop supply chain with routing and inventory.•Applying a stochastic-possibilistic programming method to cope with the uncertainty.•Developing a new hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm to efficiently solve the problem.•Applicability of the model is tested on a real c...