Along with economic development and technological innovation, rapid expansion of agricultural machinery has sparked widespread concern. In particular, the superiority scrapped recycling remanufacturing in improving environmental sustainability, benefits, carbon emission reduction garnered public attention. Based on this reality, study constructs models for five different channels according to a...

Sustainability in supply chains is increasingly becoming one of the main themes in operations and supply chain management literature and business practices. Within the framework of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM), this paper studies the sequential pricing and stocking decisions in a closed-loop supply chain when the firm makes its sourcing decisions in dual supply channels including ...

In this paper, a bi-objective model is presented for dynamic and integrated network design of a new entrant competitive closed-loop supply chain. To consider dynamism and integration in the network design problem, multiple long-term periods are regarded during planning horizon, so that each long-term period includes several short-term periods. Furthermore, a chain to chain competition between t...

Logistics network design is commonly recognized as a strategic supply chain issue of prime importance. The location of production facilities, storage concepts, and transportation strategies are major determinants of supply chain performance. This chapter considers logistics network design for the particular case of closed-loop supply chains. We highlight key issues that companies are facing whe...

This paper aims to build integrated forward and reverse logistics model, and to optimize it with closed loop supply chain (CLSC). After that, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model with the numerical examples, and simulate it with a bottles distilling/sale company in Korea. This paper designs the method of calculation for a solution using optimization algorithms with the priority-b...

Social responsibility is a key factor that could result in success and achieving great benefits for supply chains. Responsiveness and reliability are important social responsibility measures for consumers and all stakeholders that strategists and company managers should be concerned about them in long-term planning horizon. Although, presence of uncertainties as an intrinsic part of supply chai...

Product recovery has become significant business strategies to increase a competitive edge in and also the society. Parts from discarded products due rapid advancement post-consumer before & after end-of-life (EOL) are recovered reduce landfill waste have part of circular economy. is made possible with help Closed-loop supply chain (CLSC). This paper concentrates on multi-period, multi-prod...

In this work we propose a stochastic model for the design and planning of closed-loop supply chains. Uncertainties in demand and return volumes are modelled together with uncertain transportation costs. A two-stage stochastic programming is developed and a sensitivity analysis to the worst-case probability is performed in order to test the solution robustness. Finally, in order to prove the goo...

Interests in Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC) issues are growing day by day within the academia, companies, and customers. Many papers discuss profitability or cost reduction impacts of remanufacturing, but a very important point is almost missing. Indeed, there is no guarantee about the amounts of return products even if we know a lot about demands of first products. This uncertainty is due to ...