- Title
- Tactical supply chain planning under a carbon tax policy scheme: a case study
- Creator
- Fahimnia, Behnam; Sarkis, Joseph; Choudhary, Alok; Eshragh, Ali
- Relation
- International Journal of Production Economics Vol. 164, Issue June 2015, p. 206-215
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.12.015
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Greenhouse gas emissions are receiving greater scrutiny in many countries due to international forces to reduce anthropogenic global climate change. Industry and their supply chains represent a major source of these emissions. This paper presents a tactical supply chain planning model that integrates economic and carbon emission objectives under a carbon tax policy scheme. A modified Cross-Entropy solution method is adopted to solve the proposed nonlinear supply chain planning model. Numerical experiments are completed utilizing data from an actual organization in Australia where a carbon tax is in operation. The analyses of the numerical results provide important organizational and policy insights on (1) the financial and emissions reduction impacts of a carbon tax at the tactical planning level, (2) the use of cost/emission tradeoff analysis for making informed decisions on investments, (3) the way to price carbon for maximum environmental returns per dollar increase in supply chain cost.
- Subject
- green supply chain; environmental sustainability; carbon tax policy scheme; carbon pricing; cap-and-trade market; carbon trading; nested integrated cross-entropy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333315
- Identifier
- uon:27062
- Identifier
- ISSN:0925-5273
- Language
- eng
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