Shanthi Perumalsamy, Venkatesh Kaliyamurthy^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2341-2357, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040269

Abstract Due to its complexity and involvement of numerous stakeholders, the pharmaceutical supply chain presents many challenges that companies must overcome to deliver necessary medications to patients efficiently. The pharmaceutical supply chain poses different challenging issues, encompasses supply chain visibility, cold-chain shipping, drug counterfeiting, and rising prescription drug prices, which can considerably surge out-of-pocket patient costs. Blockchain (BC) offers the technical base for such a scheme, as it could track legitimate drugs and avoid fake circulation. The designers presented the procedure of BC with fabric for creating a secured drug supply-chain management (DSCM) method. With this motivation, the study presents a… More >

Sophea Horng, Pisal Yenradee^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 6119-6143, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038764

Abstract This paper proposes a Delivery Service Management (DSM) system for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that own a delivery fleet of pickup trucks to manage Business-to-Business (B2B) delivery services. The proposed DSM system integrates four systems: Delivery Location Positioning (DLP), Delivery Route Planning (DRP), Arrival Time Prediction (ATP), and Communication and Data Sharing (CDS) systems. These systems are used to pinpoint the delivery locations of customers, plan the delivery route of each truck, predict arrival time (with an interval) at each delivery location, and communicate and share information among stakeholders, respectively. The DSM system deploys Google applications, a GPS tracking… More >

B. Subashini^*, D. Hemavathi

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3339-3358, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035074

Abstract Due to an increase in agricultural mislabeling and carelesshandling of non-perishable foods in recent years, consumers have been calling for the food sector to be more transparent. Due to information dispersion between divisions and the propensity to record inaccurate data, current traceability solutions typically fail to provide reliable farm-to-fork histories ofproducts. The three most enticing characteristics of blockchain technology areopenness, integrity, and traceability, which make it a potentially crucial tool for guaranteeing the integrity and correctness of data. In this paper, we suggest a permissioned blockchain system run by organizations, such as regulatory bodies, to promote the origin-tracking of shelf-stable… More >

Ngo Quang Trung, Nguyen Van Thanh^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 6535-6546, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031815

Abstract Sustainable marketing, often known as green marketing, has grown in popularity over the last two decades. Government is currently putting pressure to encourage firms to become environmentally aware in multiple aspects like human and financial utilization, advertisement, and product movement. Different types of companies are including many environmental campaigns into their own products to take advantage of the problem. Although many scholars have addressed the relevance of green marketing as well as theory development, this study is unique in that it examines both techniques in a fuzzy context. The integrated Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making Model (MCDM) of the analytical hierarchy… More >

A. Arunkumar^1,*, S. Ramabalan¹, D. Elayaraja²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 1229-1244, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.027388

Abstract Environmental issues like pollution are major threats to human health. Many systems are developed to reduce pollution. In this paper, an optimal mobile robot design to reduce pollution in Green supply chain management system. Green supply chain management involves as similating environmentally and economically feasible solutions into the supply chain life-cycle. Smartness, advanced technologies, and advanced networks are becoming pillars of a sustainable supply chain management system. At the same time, there is much change happening in the logistics industry. They are moving towards a new logistics model. In the new model, robotic logistics has a vital role. The reasons… More >

Chia-Nan Wang¹, Hoang Tuyet Nhi Thai^1,*, Nguyen Van Thanh²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2291-2304, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025477

Abstract Supplier selection is a vital part of the supply chain and is also a current issue that concerns businesses today as supplier quality directly affects the operations of the organization. Choosing the right supplier can help businesses increase productivity, competitiveness in the market, and profits without having to lower the quality of the products. However, choosing a supplier is not a simple matter, it requires businesses to consider many aspects about their suppliers. Therefore, the goal of this study is to propose an integrated model consisting of two models: Fuzzy Analytics Network Process (Fuzzy-ANP) model and Weighted Aggregated Sum Product… More >

Jui-Chung Kao¹, Chia-Nan Wang^2,*, Viet Tinh Nguyen³ and Syed Tam Husain³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1451-1466, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.021778

Abstract According to a new study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the garment industry in the Asia-Pacific region. A sharp drop in retail sales in key export markets has affected workers and businesses across supply chains. To ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of garment supply chain, choosing a sustainable supplier should be a main concern of all businesses. The supplier selection problem in garment industry involves multiple quantitative and qualitative criteria. There have been many research and literatures about the development and application of Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) models in solving… More >

Chia-Nan Wang¹, Glen Andrew Porter², Ching-Chien Huang^3,*, Viet Tinh Nguyen⁴, Syed Tam Husain⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3031-3048, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020222

Abstract Planning and scheduling is one of the most important activity in supply chain operation management. Over the years, there have been multiple researches regarding planning and scheduling which are applied to improve a variety of supply chains. This includes two commonly used methods which are mathematical programming models and heuristics algorithms. Flowshop manufacturing systems are seen normally in industrial environments but few have considered certain constraints such as transportation capacity and transportation time within their supply chain. A two-stage flowshop of a single processing machine and a batch processing machine are considered with their capacity and transportation time between two… More >

Said Ali Hassan¹, Khalid Alnowibet^2,3, Prachi Agrawal⁴, Ali Wagdy Mohamed^5,6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1161-1181, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015494

Abstract The optimum delivery of safeguarding substances is a major part of supply chain management and a crucial issue in the mitigation against the outbreak of pandemics. A problem arises for a decision maker who wants to optimally choose a subset of candidate consumers to maximize the distributed quantities of the needed safeguarding substances within a specific time period. A nonlinear binary mathematical programming model for the problem is formulated. The decision variables are binary ones that represent whether to choose a specific consumer, and design constraints are formulated to keep track of the chosen route. To better illustrate the problem,… More >

Kazim Sari

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.2, pp. 405-412, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2017.1352258

Abstract Nowadays, there has been a great interest for business enterprises to work together or collaborate in the supply chain. It is thus possible for them to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. However, determining the right collaboration strategy is not an easy task. Namely, there are several factors that need to be considered at the same time. In this regard, an expert system based on fuzzy rules is proposed to choose an appropriate collaboration strategy for a given supply chain. To this end, firstly, the factors that are significant for supply chain collaboration are extracted via an extensive review… More >