Title: Production-inventory models considering different carbon policies: a review

Authors: Arindam Ghosh; J.K. Jha; S.P. Sarmah

Addresses: Department of Operations and IT, ICFAI Business School (IBS), The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) (Deemed to be University), Hyderabad, India ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

Abstract: Mitigating carbon emissions in supply chains has become an important issue in the recent era. Recently, companies are looking for solutions to lessen carbon emissions associated with their supply chains mainly due to carbon policies imposed by different regulatory bodies. Apart from regulations, competitive advantage, ISO certification, customer satisfaction also influence organisations to adopt green practices in their supply chains. Production and inventory are two important aspects of supply chains, and they contribute to a significant amount of cost and emissions. Organisations try to optimise their production and inventory related activities with operational adjustments while operating under different carbon policies. Over the last couple of years, authors have incorporated different carbon policies while optimising supply chains, especially production-inventory policies. This paper presents a review of quantitative models on green production-inventory problems considering different carbon policies and ends with suggestions for future research.

Keywords: carbon policies; production-inventory policies; green supply chain; quantitative models; emissions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2020.107280

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2020 Vol.30 No.1, pp.1 - 27

Received: 25 Sep 2018
Accepted: 19 Dec 2018
Published online: 11 May 2020 *

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