This article deals with problems related to the integration of reverse logistics activities within an organization and to the coordination of this new system. Reverse logistics activities refer to the recovery and processing of unused products and to the redistribution of reusable materials. For better control and management of these activities, new approaches and information support system are...

University bookstores have a complex multi-product, multi-supplier supply chain with complex channel relationships such as product substitution, random yields, reverse logistics and returns, and risk sharing contracts. Supply chain efficiency is important to the bookstore due to low overall profit margin. The used book buyback activity is an example of reverse logistics with random yield with s...

Der Einsatz der RFID-Technologie zur Kopplung von Materialund Informationsflüssen hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Einzug in die logistische Forschung und Praxis gehalten. Die Erhöhung der Visibilität entlang der Supply Chain – vom Lieferanten über den Produzenten bis zum Einzelhändler – stand dabei im Vordergrund. Vergleichsweise wenig beachtet wurde in diesem Zusammenhang die Reverse Logis...

The computer industry has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the last few decades. It is one of the fastest growing manufacturing industries and, due to high rate of obsolescence, one of the industries with the highest rate of e-waste. This paper applies a reverse logistics hierarchy to determine what steps are being taken in the industry and presents some suggested solutions to the problem f...

The interest about recovery of used products andmaterials have been increased. Therefore, reverse logistics network problem (rLNP) will be powerful and get a great potential for winning consumers in a more competitive context in the future. We formulate amathematical model of remanufacturing system as three-stage logistics networkmodel for minimizing the total of costs to reverse logistics ship...

This paper presents a coordinated reverse logistics (CRL) management system for the treatment of multi-source hazardous wastes in a given region, in this case, a specific high-technology manufacturing zone. A linear multiobjective analytical model is formulated that systematically minimizes both the total reverse logistics operating costs and corresponding risks. In addition to inter-organizati...

In this paper, a reverse supply chain network is investigated for a decision making. This decision is surrounded by complex flows of returned products, due to the increasing quantity, the type of returned products and the variety of recovery option products (reuse, recycling, and refurbishment). The most important problem in the reverse logistic network (RLN) is to orient returned products to t...

Among both inventory theorists and practitioners, it is common use to include an opportunity cost rate in the holding cost rate. In that way, the cost of capital can be roughly incorporated in an average cost (AC) inventory model. The traditional way for calculating the opportunity cost rate is to multiply the interest rate (or discount rate) by the marginal cost for producing/ordering an item....

This paper proposes an innovative uncertainty management using a stochastic model to formulate logistics network starting from order processing, purchasing, inventory management, transportation, and reverse logistics activities. As this activity chain fits well with Markov process, we exploit the very principle to represent not only the transition among various activities, but also the inherent...