The increased degradation rate of natural resources and heightened interest in sustainable resources have led to a variety of practices that companies can implement to reduce their environmental impact. To create a culture for change in industry, both engineering and business students should...

The efficiency and the effectiveness of supply chain networks primarily rely on facility location decisions. However, these decisions are closely related to the other supply chain management decisions, i.e., inventory management and transportation decisions. Therefore, the main goal of this...

In this thesis, we identify the critical operational characteristics for various distribution strategies, and then develop integrated distribution network design models by taking into account those operational factors. The first part of this thesis presents a crossdocking network design problem...