Sustainable closed-loop supply chain for dairy industry with robust and heuristic optimization

COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning using a congested queuing system—A real case from Australia

“…Solving a non-linear programming optimisation problem is computationally challenging ( Gholizadeh et al, 2021 ). As the two objective functions of the model are opposing yet interlinked, the “non-inferior” solutions would help improve both objective functions without sacrificing one over the other.…”

A heuristic-based hybrid algorithm to configure a sustainable supply chain network for medical devices considering information-sharing systems

“…This heuristic algorithm generates an effective initial solution for the SA and then SA improves this solution in its loop. It should be noted that the main reason for selecting this algorithm is that it was employed in the previous studies in the field of supply chain and showed good performance (for example see Kaur and Singh 2018 ; Gholizadeh et al 2021 ; Homayouni et al 2021 ; Sazvar et al 2021b ; Asadi et al 2022 ). Figure 6 shows the steps of this algorithm (Kaur and Singh 2018 ; Sazvar et al 2021b ).…”

“…Moheb-Alizadeh et al ( 2021 ) suggested a stochastic MOMM to configure an SCLSC and developed a hybrid solution method to achieve an optimal solution. Gholizadeh et al ( 2021 ) utilized robust and heuristic optimization methods to configure an SCLSC for the dairy industry. They offered a scenario-based model and solved it using the -constraint method.…”

Robust Optimization for a Bi-Objective Green Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Heterogeneous Transportation System and Presorting Consideration

“…An uncertain multi-objective MILP model of the CLSC network design was studied to minimize the total costs, maximize the on-time delivery of the products purchased from suppliers, and maximize the quality of the produced products on the forward chain that can be recovered in the reverse supply chain using an SRO method [45]. Gholizadeh et al [46] proposed a bi-objective model to minimize the environmental impact and maximize profit for a dairy CLSC using a heuristic approach and robust optimization scenario-based. Some studies have implemented an interval-based RO approach where the uncertain parameters are predefined within an uncertainty set which characterized by its shape and size [22].…”