Waste management in health institutions has become important in recent years because of the increase in population and industrialization. Waste generated from health institutions has risks for human health and the environment. Therefore, this paper presents a reverse logistics optimization for waste collection and disposal in Turkish health institutions. A multiperiod, multitype product waste r...

Sustainability is a key issue for companies offering products and services on the global market. The ever-increasing worldwide demand for raw materials in combination with the rising costs for materials and energy challenges companies to make their products, processes and services more sustainable. More and more customers are demanding sustainable products and services due to their increased aw...

The reuse of salvaged parts from vehicles, deemed to be at the end of their life, is viewed as an opportunity by insurers and crash repair firms to reduce rectification costs and improve service to policy holders. This research investigates the opportunities and challenges that confront an important but under researched part of the automotive supply chain in establishing a reverse logistics flo...

Classical logistics systems supports only processes carried out in material flow from manufacturer to final user. Recently it has been a striking growth of interest in optimizing logistics processes that supports recapturing value from used goods. The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and ...

In this paper, we study return policy and supply chain coordination in a channel of one supplier and one retailer. The paper assumes that unsold merchandise should been refunded to the supplier by the retailer. The retailer knows the cost of reverse logistics operations but the supplier has to estimate it. The contract menu under asymmetric reverse logistics cost information between supply chai...

Direct sales channels, environmental legislation, and liberal returns policies contributed to the growth of returns flows. However, there is still a lot of re required to enrich the domain by modeling a decision framework and develop integrated architecture for product return as an enterprise system. Most of the av literature on forward supply chain system focuses mainly on physical transaction...

In this paper, we discuss the problem and challenge for the reverse logistics of the publishing industry in China. First we present the background of the publishing industry in China through analyzing the statistics data of the past 8 years. Then we point out the existing problems and the underlying reasons. Finally we propose our solution and suggestions to cope with the existing problems, inc...

After a brief introduction to the basic concepts of reverse logistics, we present a two-level location problem with three types of facility to be located in a specific reverse logistics system, named a Remanufacturing Network (RMN). For this problem, we propose a 0–1 mixed integer programming model, in which we simultaneously consider “forward” and “reverse” flows and their mutual interactions....

Reverse logistics involving closed-loop supply chains in various industry sectors has received growing attention throughout this decade. Reverse logistics considers several channels of reverse material flows from customers to suppliers. The value of product returns now exceeds $100 billion annually in the United States. However, only a small fraction of the returned product value is recaptured ...

The design of closed-loop logistics (forward and reverse logistics) has attracted growing attention with the stringent pressures of customer expectations, environmental concerns and economic factors. This paper considers a multi-product, multi-period and multi-objective closed-loop logistics network model with regard to facility expansion as a facility location–allocation problem, which more cl...