README

One of the most importante findings of this work according to Javid Jouzdani and Kannan Govindan (2021) is the following: Temperature is one of the most important features of PFSCND. Kovačić et al. (2015) studied the impacts of deciding the locations of facilities and, thus, the transportation lead time on the perishability of products. They investigated the role of Extended Material Requirement Planning in lead-time and temperature perturbation evaluations. They considered a four-echelon supply chain presenting the case of a perishable baby food supply chain in Spain. Their research was among the very few to incorporate the interest rate into the calculations of PFSCND. They showed that for highly perishable ingredients of baby food, with a perishability rate above 10%, the net present value of the chain may become negative, showing an economic loss. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123060.