Title of article :
Sustainable Optimization in Supply Chain Network of the Iranian Universities
Author/Authors :
Najafi, Amir Department of Industrial Engineering - Islamic Azad University Zanjan Branch, Iran , Rajaei, Shahin Department of Industrial Engineering - Islamic Azad university Kerman Branch, Iran
Abstract :
There has been a lot of problems for Universities that the main problems of the
students are obliged to pay high fees for education and also inability of university
to provide appropriate services in terms of quality and quantity of the students.
These two factors cause psychological and even physical problems in the
country's students an after a while their motivation for continuing education
greatly get lowers. One of the most important part of the problems mentioned
there, are self-services of Universities that in addition to their high cost, provide
poor quality of their service level. In this article, we check the one of the selfservices of country's Universities and we plan to implement a Sustainable Supply
Chain in this section to minimize the costs and the quality of the food served in
this sector to reach its maximum to reach the economically optimal point and
raise the level of customer satisfaction to at least provide their needs and avoid
the creation of adverse effects. We examined a four-level chain that made from
distributor, logistics, self-service and customer. We want to use a multi-objective
function, dual economic objective (cost) and social (quality) to deliver efficient
point and also putting information at each level of the chain to the other levels, to
minimize bullwhip effect on the entire supply chain and amount of inventory at
each of the levels and therefore reduce total costs in this area and to increase the
quantity and quality of cooking.
Keywords :
supply chain network design , sustainability , self-service , linear programming
Journal title :
Journal of Industrial Strategic Management