Purpose This paper aims to uncover the significance of capacity, capacity utilization (CU)
and its role in the quality and productivity improvement in an industrial environment …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study the potential for improving sustainability
performance in food supply networks by implementing collaborative distribution. Food …

Indirect procurement is a diverse and crucial component of purchasing that has been largely
ignored by scholarly research, due to representing only a small portion of manufacturing …

In this paper, we propose a new mathematical programming model for integrating
production and procurement transport planning decisions in manufacturing systems in a …

In this manuscript, a vehicle allocation problem involving a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles
for delivering products from a manufacturing firm to a set of depots is considered. Each …

This paper develops a mathematical model for intermodal freight transportation. It focuses
on determining the flow of goods, the number of vehicles, and the transferred volume of …

We consider a real-world automobile supply chain in which a first-tier supplier serves an
assembler and determines its procurement transport planning for a second-tier supplier by …

Today energy is directly related with progress or growth of any country and every event
requires a huge amount of energy. In today's global competitiveness, demand for energy is …

Energy is synonymous with progress today and almost every activity consumes energy. In
the midst of unprecedented high demand of energy, countries like India are facing highly …

In this document, allocation of different types of vehicles for transporting products from a
manufacturing firm to its depots is considered. The problem involves a limited number of …