Supply chain management
A multi-objective and multi-level model for location-routing problem in the supply chain based on the customer’s time window

Peiman Ghasemi; Hossein Hemmaty; Adel Pourghader Chobar; Mohamad Reza Heidari; Mahdi Keramati

Volume 10, Issue 3 , July 2023, , Pages 412-426

https://doi.org/10.22105/jarie.2022.321454.1414

Abstract
  Today, logistics costs often make up a major part of large organizations’ expenses. These costs can be reduced with optimal design and its implementation in the supply chain. As a result, in present study, a two-objective mathematical location-routing model is presented, where an objective is to ...  Read More

Engineering Modeling
A reliable and sustainable design of supply chain in healthcare under uncertainty regarding environmental impacts

Reza Eslamipoor; Arash Nobari

Volume 10, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 256-272

https://doi.org/10.22105/jarie.2022.335389.1461

Abstract
  Nowadays, designing a reliable network for blood supply chains by which most blood demands can be supplied is an important problem in the health care systems. In this paper, a multi-objective model is provided to create a sustainable blood supply chain, which contains multiple donors, collection centers, ...  Read More

Sustainable reliability centered maintenance optimization considering risk attitude

Ali Karevan; Mohammadreza Vasili

Volume 5, Issue 3 , November 2018, , Pages 205-222

https://doi.org/10.22105/jarie.2018.79157

Abstract
  Maintenance costs are one of the major costs in plants and companies. The observation in many cases illustrates the lack of plans or mistakes in maintenance activities that incurred great costs. In this study, the number of equipment failures have been determined. Then the failure rate and reliability ...  Read More