| Title |
Sustainable and resilience planning for the supply chain of online hyperlocal grocery services |
| ID_Doc |
73077 |
| Authors |
Suryawanshi, P; Dutta, P; Varun, L; Deepak, G |
| Title |
Sustainable and resilience planning for the supply chain of online hyperlocal grocery services |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.spc.2021.05.001 |
| Abstract |
In an uncertain Supply Chain (SC) environment dealing with suppliers and transport-level disruptions in addition to fulfilling customers' requirements is a complex task. Such challenges are more taxing in case of perishable products SCs. The concurrent effect of all such events affects the economic stability of SC and impedes sustainability on a longer planning horizon. The proposed study presents a case example of e-commerce based SC addressing an operational and distribution planning problem. For this purpose, the study simulates online grocery business operations by proposing a mixed-integer linear programming problem to minimize SC's expected cost. It includes the costs of purchase, transportation, supply-demand mismatch, and cost of economic loss due to the perishable nature of the products. Computational analysis is performed to manifest the performance of the proposed model considering the dataset of a hyperlocal distribution service. The study evaluates the utility of resilience and sustainable strategies to minimize expected economic costs and reduce environmental impacts by effectively managing waste. A backup strategy is devised to promote a resilient SC planning to fight the risk of disruptions and operational failures. Additionally, economic sustainability is achieved by implementing various markdown policies and waste minimization strategies. A sensitivity analysis using Monte-Carlo simulation is presented to recognize the impact of operational risk, demand uncertainty, and perishability on the expected cost. Majorly, it contributes to the scant literature of quantitative modeling for the production and distribution of food SC to promote resiliently sustainable planning. Further, the resilient and sustainable strategies, procurement policies, penalty assessment, and markdown due to perishability are some of the key contributions of the study. The discussion provides plenty of opportunities to pursue future studies in operational and distribution management of e-commerce SCs. (C) 2021 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords |
Supply chain; Hyperlocal grocery business; Perishable food; Resilient policy; Sustainability; Uncertainty analysis |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000682955300037 |
| WoS Category |
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Studies |
| Research Area |
Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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