An Integrated Sustainable and Resilient Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design: A Case Study of the Indian Mango Pulp Industry

Abstract

Considering sustainability and resilience together is crucial in food supply chain (FSC) management, as it ensures a balanced approach that meets environmental, economic and social needs while maintaining the system's capacity to withstand disruptions. Towards this, a multi-objective optimisation model is proposed in this study to create an integrated sustainable and resilient FSC. The proposed model employs four objective functions – each representing a dimension of sustainability and one for resilience and utilises an augmented ϵ-constraint method for solving. The findings highlight the interplay between sustainability aspects and resilience, illustrating that overemphasis on any single dimension can adversely affect others. Further, the proposed model is applied to the case of Indian mango pulp supply chain and several inferences are derived. The proposed model would assist decision-makers in making a well-balanced choice based on sustainability and resilience considerations.

Citation

Krishnan, R., G, R. and Kumar, P.N.R. (2024), "An Integrated Sustainable and Resilient Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design: A Case Study of the Indian Mango Pulp Industry", Elias, A.A., Pepper, M., Gurumurthy, A. and Shukla, A.K. (Ed.) Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain (Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management, Vol. 12), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 13-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-359820240000012005