Resilient Supply Chain Planning for the Perishable Products under Different Uncertainty

Abstract

In this research, the perishable products’ closed-loop supply chain network design problem is assessed by considering the disruption in production and distribution capacity and taking into account the uncertainty in customer demand. The main contribution of this research is modeling perishable products’ supply chain optimization and providing intelligent solution methods. In this regard, a mixed-integer mathematical model is proposed. This mathematical model consists of three objective functions. The first objective function is related to profit maximization, the second objective function is to minimize delivery time, and the third objective function is to reduce lost business days. Moreover, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGAII) and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) have been applied to optimize the proposed model. The research results show that the proposed meta-heuristic algorithm can provide a complete set of Pareto solutions in a reasonable amount of time. Moreover, based on different criteria, MOEA provides the non-dominated solutions with a higher quality, while NSGAII presents the Pareto boundary with more solutions than MOEA.