Developing a tactical decision-making framework for a sustainable egg supply chain considering switchable parallel machines

Sadeghi Ahangar S., Seraj P., Aghsami A.

Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, vol.41, no.6, pp.487-503, 2024 (ESCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 41 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/21681015.2024.2334792
  • Journal Name: Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.487-503
  • Keywords: green packaging and labeling, mathematical modeling, optimizing, Supplier selection, supply chain, sustainablity
  • Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The increasing world population has increased food supply needs in recent years. Despite the numerous studies in the field of food supply chains, there are few articles on optimizing a sustainable egg supply chain. A fuzzy multi-objective mathematical model is presented to optimize a sustainable egg supply chain in a tactical decision structure. Switchable green packaging and labeling machines in parallel production lines, suppliers with different reliability rates and the provision of raw materials with different qualities have been studied in this article. Despite the significant reduction of the total costs while using switchable machines, the majority of the costs are still related to raw materials so that an increase of 2 to 4 times in the amount of input materials can change the values of objective functions by 23% to 60%. By using the unused capacity of the packaging and labeling machines, the total costs can be reduced significantly.