CyberGIS-BioScope: A Cyberinfrastructure-Based Spatial Decision-Making Environment for Biomass-to-Biofuel Supply Chain Optimization

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Hu ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Shaowen Wang ◽  
Luis F. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Optimization ◽  
Biofuel Supply Chain ◽  
Spatial Decision Making

Integrated strategic and tactical biomass–biofuel supply chain optimization

2014 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 256-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Lin ◽  
Luis F. Rodríguez ◽  
Yogendra N. Shastri ◽  
Alan C. Hansen ◽  
K.C. Ting
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Optimization ◽  
Biofuel Supply Chain

scholarly journals Operational Management Implemented in Biofuel Upstream Supply Chain and Downstream International Trading: Current Issues in Southeast Asia

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoo Ying ◽  
Cassendra Phun Chien ◽  
Fan Yee Van
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Biofuel Production ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Biofuel Supply Chain ◽  
Operational Management

Bioenergy is one of the alternatives to secure energy demand, despite increasing debate on the sustainability of using bioenergy as a renewable source. As the source is disseminated over a large area and affected by seasonality, the potential benefit is highly dependent on other cost and benefit trade-offs along the supply chain. This review paper aims to assess operational management research methods used in biofuel supply chain planning, including both upstream production and international downstream trading. There have been considerable operational management studies done on upstream processes in biofuel production based on different strategic and tactical decision making of a single or multiple feedstocks, considering economic and environmental factor. However, the environmental consideration is often limited to carbon emission where the other environmental impact such as land-use change, biodiversity loss, irrigation and fertilisation are often being overlooked. Biofuel supply chain and trading at international level remain as an apparent research potential where only limited numbers of global energy models explicitly simulate international bioenergy trade. The leading biofuel producing countries in Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, are selected as a case study to investigate further on how the supply chain management model could be applied considering the existing biofuel support policies. This study is expected to contribute to the selection of operational management research methods used for decision making under robust policy context, followed by several recommendations.

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