e-business-enabled supply chain, or e-supply chain management, isan emerging area of interest as companies begin to explore theInternet's potential to restructure supply chain relationships. Thispaper extends the previous research work on the environmental lifecycleimpact of e-commerce to sustainable e-supply chain management fortypical electronics products. The integrated e-supply chain networkstructure is modeled to account for material and information flowsthroughout the supply chain, including product demanufacture and reuseof materials and components. Various parameters defining business,technology and environmental issues of the e-supply chain arerepresented and optimized in a fuzzy logic based network to model datauncertainty and information gaps. A fuzzy multi-objective optimizationmethod is proposed to-find the best possible balance betweensupply-chain variables, e-business strategies and environmentalperformance. As a case study, an e-supply-chain: management of typicaldesktop personal computers is modeled and optimized. Discrete eventsystem simulation techniques are used to examine the stochastic behaviorof the optimal network and further analyze supply chainperformance
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