Design and planning for green global supply chains under periodic review replenishment policies

Ioannis Mallidis; Dimitrios Vlachos; Eleftherios Iakovou; Rommert Dekker

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2014.10.008

Design and planning for green global supply chains under periodic review replenishment policies

Ioannis Mallidis^*, Dimitrios Vlachos, Eleftherios Iakovou, Rommert Dekker

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Abstract

We quantify the impact of jointly optimizing strategic network design and tactical inventory planning on the cost and CO₂ emissions of multi-echelon logistics networks. The obtained insights indicate that longer optimized replenishment cycles reduce a node's transportation cost and CO₂ emissions but increase its inventory costs. Moreover, under a fixed replenishment cycle, a node's service level increases when supplied by a satellite warehouse. Finally: (i) the costs of implementing optimal green network design decisions could be misleading if inventory planning is neglected, (ii) greening of supply chains could become expensive, (iii) current legislative CO₂ ton prices hardly influence logistics networks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	210-235
Number of pages	26
Journal	Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Volume	72
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2014.10.008
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2014

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This research paper has been funded by the EU (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek National Funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Heraclitus II, investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund. It has also been conducted in the context of the GREEN-AgriChains project that is funded from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) under Grant Agreement No. 316167. All the above reflect only the authors’ views; The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

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