Greening the Supply Chain: Operational Adjustment versus Technology Investment

Zied Jemai (), Y Bouchery (), A Ghaffari and Y. Dallery
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Zied Jemai: LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606 - CentraleSupélec
A Ghaffari: LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606 - CentraleSupélec
Y. Dallery: LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606 - CentraleSupélec

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Abstract: Greening a supply chain can be achieved by considering several options. However, companies lack of clear guidelines to assess and compare these options. In this paper, we propose to use multiobjective optimization to assess operational adjustment and technology investment options in terms of cost and carbon emissions. Our study is based on a multiobjective formulation of the economic order quantity model called the sustainable order quantity model. The results show that both options may be effective to lower the impacts of logistics operations. We also provide analytical conditions under which an option outperforms the other in a carbon tax context.

Keywords: Green supply chain; inventory control; multiobjective optimization; sustainable order quantity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-08-26
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Published in International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS), Aug 2012, Quebec, Canada

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