Designing a resilient-green closed loop supply chain network for perishable products by considering disruption in both supply chain and power networks

Abstract

The effects of disruption in both supply chain and its infrastructures like power network have not been addressed in previous works, simultaneously. Besides, disruption risks have environmental effects besides their economic effects. For this purpose, this paper studies a resilient-green closed loop supply chain design problem considering the perishable nature of products and disruption risks in both supply chain and power networks. To cope with disruptions five different risk mitigation strategies are employed. We have developed an integrated bi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model to minimize the expected total network cost and the expected total amount of carbon emissions of both networks. The results demonstrate that applying strategy of integrating interdependent networks along with four other resilient strategies, especially “intermediate facility” and “lateral transshipment” strategies, will improve the performance of integrated network significantly. Also, with increasing the lifetime of products, the performance of the proposed model will be improved.