Designing and evaluating sustainable logistics networks

The objective in this paper is to shed light into the design of logistic networks balancing profit and the environment. More specifically we intend to
i) determine the main factors influencing environmental performance and costs in logistic networks
ii) present a comprehensive framework and mathematical formulation, based on multi-objective programming, integrating all relevant variables in order to explore efficient logistic network configurations
iii) present the expected computational results of such formulation and
iv) introduce a technique to evaluate the efficiency of existing logistic networks.
The European Pulp and Paper Industry will be used to illustrate our findings.