Today, interest about the recovery of used products and materials is on increasing. Therefore, reverse logistics will become power and great potential for winning consumers in more competitive contexts in the future. This paper considers the multistage reverse Logistics Network Problem (mrLNP) with minimizing the total of costs to reverse logistics shipping cost. We will demonstrate the mrLNP m...

The design of a multimodal logistics service network with customer service time windows and environmental costs is an important and challenging issue. Accordingly, this work established a model to minimize the total cost of multimodal logistics service network design with time windows and environmental concerns. The proposed model incorporates CO2 emission costs to determine the optimal transpo...

The importance of tracking and tracing of shipments is considered quite high for manufacturing firms in terms of customer service and essential for managing logistics networks efficiently. Global industries are facing problems both from tracking and tracing in their logistics networks that creates huge coordination problems in the overall product development sites. This paper presents a sophist...

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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...

With agility and adequate partnership strategies towards effective logistics networks Ž .) Abstract In the mid-1970s, there was a change in many areas of the economy — caused by the laws of supply and demand — from sellers' markets to buyers' markets. This macroeconomic phenomenon — i.e., economics — had decisive consequences for logistics partnerships among companies, and thus for microeconomi...

In this paper, we propose a new model for designing integrated forward/reverse logistics based on pricing policy in direct and indirect sales channel. The proposed model includes producers, disposal center, distributers and final customers. We assumed that the location of final customers is fixed. First, a deterministic mixed integer linear programming model is developed for integrated logistic...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...

To build a cooperative logistics network covering multiple enterprises, a planning method that can build a long-distance transportation network is required. Many strict constraints are imposed on this type of problem. To solve this problem efficiently, a selfish-constraint-satisfaction genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed. In this type GA, each gene of an individual satisfies only its constraints...