Ruthless competition, pression from authorities and constant demand from customers to purchase an eco-friendly product, make the modern company condemned to reduce the social and environmental impacts for their supply chains. Not to forget optimize the operational costs making the logistic operations more sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the added value of sustainability on a distribution network via a multi-agent simulation. The aim of the proposed model is the minimization of operational costs and the environmental burden as well as maximizing the social benefits of the network. We are mainly interested in the way the distribution network and the facilities behave under sustainability constraints.
Agent based modelling for a sustainable distribution network: a Moroccan case study of a retail logistics network
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