Nowadays organizations search to maximize their profits, particularly with regard recyclable materials, making new strategies according several emerging and changing scenarios. Logistics management is an important tool in achieving these goals, serving as a link between the market various areas of organization. It responsible for managing physical organizational flows, both within organizations...

Many businesses have now realized that a Reverse Logistics system can be used to gain competitive advantage. Even the best retailers and vendors now have reason to review how their returns programs are managed. New technologies and service providers now offer an opportunity to improve overall ‘total returns performance’. This means not only reducing the ‘total cost of returns’, but utilizing re...

This paper reviews the practice in reverse logistics through published literature. The objective of this study is to encourage and provide researchers with future research directions in reverse logistics. Since supply chains are designed for forward flow, integrating product recovery into the network design poses a major challenge. An important assignment of top management is to analyse the obs...

This paper proposes a model and solution method for coordinating integrated production and inventory cycles in a whole manufacturing supply chain involving reverse logistics for multiple items with finite horizon period. A whole manufacturing supply chain involving reverse logistic consists of tier-2 suppliers supplying raw materials to tier-1 suppliers, tier-1 suppliers producing parts, a manu...

Line-integrated supermarkets constitute a novel in-house parts logistics concept for feeding mixed-model assembly lines. In this context, supermarkets are decentralized logistics areas located directly in each station. Here, parts are withdrawn from their containers by a dedicated logistics worker and sorted just-in-sequence (JIS) into a JIS-bin. From this bin, assembly workers fetch the parts ...