A three echelon revenue oriented green supply chain network design

Abstract

Green supply chain network designing has been studied during last decades. As carbon emissions considered as a major index in today’s activities around the world, here a three echelon-multi product network including manufacturer, distributor, retailer have been provided and tried to minimize the pollution gathered from manufacturing and distribution of products all over the chains which causes extra costs as penalty to the system. As we faced with these penalties, the model determines selling prices of products for manufacturer and distribution center simultaneously by locating these centers in order to maximize the profits all around the network. Finally, the proposed model is solved through the numerical examples and the sensitivity analysis and important parameters are reported to find some management insights.