An Artificial Immune Algorithm for a Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design Problem with Different Delivery Paths

Literature Review

In this section, we relate our work with the existing literature by discussing the features comprised by the new model we propose in Section 3. In particular, we analyze the extent to which such features have been addressed in the literature.

Integrated forward and reverse logistics refers to all those activities associated with the transformation and the flows of goods and services with their information from the sources of the materials to the end users. (Dullaert, Bräysy, Goetschalckx, Raa, & Center, 2007) give a general review of the supply chain design models to support the development of richer supply chain models, capable of taking into account all logistics costs. These models range from simple un-capacitated facility location models to complex capacitated multi-objective models aimed at determining the cost minimizing or profit maximizing system design.