Goal programming approach for agile sustainable pharmaceutical supply chain Online publication date: Mon, 05-Dec-2022
by Meghdad Haji Mohammad Ali Jahromi; Ali Nazeri; Ehsan Ghorbani
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), Vol. 42, No. 4, 2022
Abstract: In this paper, a pharmaceutical supply chain network with four levels including suppliers, major distributors, retailers and customers was considered and in order to have agility and sustainability benefits simultaneously, goal programming approach has been used. In fact, an optimum structure regarding sustainable aspects of supply chain in light of economic, social, environmental and political aspects (i.e., as important aspects in the current situation) were designed. Also, for this purpose, a digraph corresponded to a feasible structure under real situation of pharmaceutical supply chain was considered, and then with help of goal programming approach, an optimum configuration, which is a sub-digraph from the main, will be achieved. Results show that the model has high capability to configure pharmaceutical chain according to expectations of the managers and experts of the chain.
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