Smog in industrial zones, the depletion of the ozone layer, and global warming demonstrate exemplarily the harmful impact of business activities on environmental systems and the societies that act within them. Therefore, customers and many governments around the world are developing a more conscious and respectful attitude toward the environment, turning environmental concerns into a central el...

Along with the continual development of the social economy,there is an increasing demand for natural resources in the worldwide society. Meanwhile,social production and consumption often produce a large amount of castoffs and returns. It is found that reasonable disposition and reclamation of the castoffs and returns can not only improve using efficiency of resources and reduce waste of resourc...

In order to solve closed-loop logistics network design problem in the low-carbon economic environment, in this paper, queuing theory is used to calculate the amount of storage of reverse logistics nodes and interval number is used to describe the uncertainty of the logistics network, a bi-objectives logistics network design model which minimum the total cost and carbon emissions of logistics ne...

We consider a logistics spot market where the transportation orders from a number of firms are matched with two types of carriers through a reverse auction. In the spot market, local carriers compete with in-transit carriers that have lower costs. In order to analyze the effects of implementing a logistics spot market on these three parties: firms, local carriers, and in-transit carriers and al...

In this work the design of a reverse distribution network is studied. Most of the proposed models on the subject are case based and, for that reason, they lack generality. In this paper we try to overcome this limitation and a generalized model is proposed. It contemplates the design of a generic reverse logistics network where capacity limits, multi-product management and uncertainty on produc...

Against global warming and environmental degradation, many interests have been paid to the studies popularly termed reverse, closed, green or sustainable logistics (Fiksel, 2010; Nikolopoulou and Ierapetritou, 2012; Srivastava, 2007). Recently, we concerned with a reverse logistics optimization in a practical manner (Shimizu and Sakaguchi, 2013) and deployed an idea for realizing an infrastruct...

Along with forward supply chain organization needs to consider the impact of reverse logistics due to its economic advantage, social awareness and strict legislations. In this paper, we develop a system dynamics framework for a closed-loop supply chain with fuzzy demand and fuzzy collection rate by incorporating product exchange policy in forward channel and various recovery options in reverse ...