Managers of agricultural firms that process specialty crops into consumer products operate in a unique environment that affords little control over uncertainties, making the discovery of optimal sourcing decisions especially complex. These complexities make the explicit incorporation of...

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...