Presenting a model for managing and designing the meat supply chain

Baghparvar, Farid; Taghipour, Mohammad

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Presenting a model for managing and designing the meat supply chain

Farid Baghparvar ^*

, Mohammad Taghipour

Department of Industrial Engineering, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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The aim of the research is to present a model for managing and designing the meat supply chain in one of the regions of Iran under conditions of certainty. In this research, we are looking for the location and routing of livestock centers, slaughterhouses, and distribution centers in a way that we achieve three important goals. The first goal is to minimize the costs of opening transportation centers and routing meat on the route between livestock farmers and slaughterhouses and distribution centers. The second goal is to minimize the total risk that is created simultaneously with the transportation and location processes, considering the environmental and social risks resulting from the construction of the aforementioned chain. The third goal is the freshness of the products delivered to customers. According to the results obtained, it can be seen that by reducing the delivery time of goods and raw materials to obtain fresh and quality meat products, the cost increases and the environmental impacts increase due to the construction of factories and food hubs and the distribution system of the selected product. Considering several objective functions provides this ability for decision makers to find out by what extent an increase in some objective functions will result in a decrease in other objectives. This will lead to better consideration and decision-making in current environments.

Keywords: Meat product supply chain design, cost reduction, environmental impacts

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2025/10/7 | Accepted: 2025/12/20 | Published: 2025/12/21

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