The concern about customer satisfaction and transportation cost in the business environment has spurred an interest in designing a flexible logistics network. This paper proposes a multi-delivery path closed-loop supply chain network to find not only the most cost efficient network design but also the best path to deliver the products to customers. To tackle with such an NP-hard problem an Arti...

In recent years, sustainability concept has been introduced to many fields including management, technology, and supply chain (SC). The most accepted definition for Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) would be one where all consumer products are created, used, and recycled or disposed of in the Closed loop Method. Closed Loop Supply Chain Management (CLSCM) refers to all forward Logistic...

Product recovery has become significant business strategies to increase a competitive edge in and also the society. Parts from discarded products due rapid advancement post-consumer before & after end-of-life (EOL) are recovered reduce landfill waste have part of circular economy. is made possible with help Closed-loop supply chain (CLSC). This paper concentrates on multi-period, multi-prod...

With the development of the global economy, the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are getting larger and larger, which brings more and more serious environmental problems to nature that already has great pressure. The traditional enterprise development usually takes the cost minimization and the profit maximization as the enterprise management goal, at the expense of the env...

management model desirable to establish the life cycle of various commodities in different organizations is a closed-loop supply chain. in this paper, according to classic models in white and brown goods, a unified framework is used to implement in a military logistics company. it seems that using this model, improved lifecycle management, environmental conservation and improvement of services ...

Interests in Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC) issues are growing day by day within the academia, companies, and customers. Many papers discuss profitability or cost reduction impacts of remanufacturing, but a very important point is almost missing. Indeed, there is no guarantee about the amounts of return products even if we know a lot about demands of first products. This uncertainty is due to ...