On Production and Green Transportation Coordination in a Sustainable Global Supply Chain

Feng Guo, Qi Liu, Dunhu Liu and Zhaoxia Guo
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Feng Guo: National Engineering Research Center for E-learning, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Qi Liu: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Dunhu Liu: School of Management, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Zhaoxia Guo: Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: This paper addresses a coordination problem of production and green transportation and the effects of production and transportation coordination on supply chain sustainability in a global supply chain environment with the consideration of important realistic characteristics, including parallel machines, different order processing complexities, fixed delivery departure times, green transportation and multiple transportation modes. We formulate the measurements for carbon emissions of different transportation modes, including air, sea and land transportation. A hybrid genetic algorithm-based optimization approach is developed to handle this problem, in which a hybrid genetic algorithm and heuristic procedures are combined. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated by means of various problem instances. We observe that the coordination of production and green transportation has a large effect on the overall supply chain sustainability, which can reduce the total supply chain cost by 9.60% to 21.90%.

Keywords: sustainable operations; green transportation; supply chain sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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