Managing products’ end-of-life and recovery of used products is gaining significant importance during last years. Therefore, managing the reverse flow of products can be an important potential for winning consumers in future competitive markets. In this context, establishing reverse logistics networks is becoming a main problem in reverse supply chains. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is utilized to s...

Environmental awareness, green directives, liberal return policies, and recycling of materials are globally accepted by industry and the general public as an integral part of the product life cycle. Reverse logistics reflects the acceptance of new policies by analyzing the processes associated with the flow of products, components and materials from end users to re-users consisting of second ma...

0 Throughout the world a lot of ammunition is stored which concentrate expensive material that is unused and unutilised. Ammunition significantly represents potential risk to human and their environment. According to analysis made by [1, 2] it has been found, that discarded munitions are destroyed by using conventional techniques such as dumping at sea, outdoors burning and detonation, mining d...

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...

In this paper, we address the problem of locating collection centers for a company that collects used products from product holders. Each product holder has an inherent willingness to return the product, and makes the decision on the basis of financial incentive offered by the company. We present a mixed-integer nonlinear facility location-allocation model to find the optimal locations, the opt...

Due to the increased interests in environmental issues along with stringent legislation and regulations, companies start taking a fresh look at impact on their reverse logistic activties environment. This paper is an example of recovery valuable material that can be recycled/recovered or remanufactured end product useful life by designing effective logistics network. In this study, mixed intege...

Reverse logistics saat ini telah menjadi isu hangat di beberapa perusahaan seluruh dunia. Beberapa bahkan sangat baik dalam menerapkan reverse yang ditandai dengan tingkat implementasi sudah dikategorikan pada level tinggi. Namun, tidak sedikit orang masih menerapkannya tahap awal. PT. X adalah manufaktur bergerak bidang konstruksi kayu berlokasi Lawang. Saat ini, mengacu kerangka maturitas dis...