Toward Sustainable Operations of Supply Chain and Logistics Systems

Part 1 Supply Chain Management.- A supply chain network design considering network density.- Is Cash-to-cash cycle appropriate to measure Supply Chain Performance?.- Key performance indicator framework for measuring healthcare logistics in ASEAN.- Supply Chain Modelling under Uncertainty: A Supplier's Perspective.- A study on the changing structure of retail logistics.- Investigating the End-Customers' Acceptance of the Virtual Supply Chain: The Case of Grocery Retailers in Egypt.- Part 2 Sustainable Logistics.- The effect of institutional pressures and top managers' posture on green supply chain management.- Deployment of sustainable logistics optimization incorporated with modal shift and emission trading on carbon dioxide.- Sustainability Classification for SMEs - a guidance of sustainability assessment with the use of averaged traits quality method.- Decision making criteria for sustainable remanufacturing.- A Framework for sustainable food supply chain: Reflections from the Indian dairy producers.- Waste Reduction in Meat Processing Industry: the application of MFCA (ISO 14051).- A Suggestion of an Effective Reverse Logistics System for Discarded Tires in Japan.- A Study on The Optimal and The Collected Location of Industrial Wastes Treatment Facilities: A Case of The Intermediate Treatment Facilities in Chiba, Japan.- Part 3 Manufacturing and production logistics.- Performance Measurements Related to Lean Manufacturing that Affect Net Profit of SMEs in the Manuf

acturing Sector of Thailand.- The survey on the challenges of organization of automotive components remanufacturing in small sized companies in Poland.- Makespan minimization for scheduling unrelated parallel machine with sequence-dependent setup time.- Single machine scheduling for minimizing earliness/tardiness penalties with sequence dependent setup times.- Part 4 - Optimization problems in warehousing, distribution and transportation.- Designing of Relief Network for Disaster Response Operation.- Integrated relief supply distribution and evacuation: a stochastic approach.- Combining Simulation with Optimization to Evaluate Freight Logistics Performances for Developing a Corridor.- Time Management of Domestic Express Transportation Services.- Sugarcane Harvester Planning Based on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) Approach.- A Memetic Algorithm Approach for Solving the Truck and Trailer Routing Problem.- Modified DE Algorithms for Solving Multi-depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Pickup and Delivery Requests.- Part 5 Metaheuristics and artificial intelligence methods.- Flexible multistage forward/reverse logistics network under uncertain demands with hybrid genetic algorithm.- Development of Heuristics in Sugarcane Harvest Scheduling for Mechanical Harvester in Sugarcane Supply Chain.- Territory Energy Management Performance Improvement.- An Assessment of Customer Contentment for Ready to Drink Tea Flavor Notes Using Artificial Neural Networks.- Particle Swarm Optimization with Multiple Learning Terms for Storage Location Assignment Problems Considering Three-Axis Traveling Distance.- A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Solar Cell Industry Multi-Stage Closed Loop Supply Chain Model.- A combined grey system theory and uncertainty theory based approach for supplier selection in supply chain management.- A fuzzy multi-objective model with MFCA approach for selecting products variety in a textile supply chain.- Part 6 Mathematical Programming, Operations Research and Statistical Techniques.- Manpower Planning with Multiple Tasks for a Call Center in Healthcare Service.- Developing Control Charts for Monitoring Time Interval between Nonconforming Items in High Quality Processes.- Workforce Planning for Single Call Center with Service Level Agreement.- Image Analysis for High Dimensional Control Chart in Sausage Color Consistency Detection.