Reverse supply chains : issues and analysis

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Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, c2013.

Physical Description:

xvii, 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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9781439899021

Abstract:

"Reverse supply chains consist of a series of activities required to collect used products from consumers and reprocess them to either recover their leftover market values or dispose of them. It has become common for companies involved in a traditional (forward) supply chain (series of activities required to produce new products from virgin materials and distribute them to consumers) to also carry out collection and reprocessing of used products (reverse supply chain). Strict environmental regulations and diminishing raw material resources have intensified the importance of reverse supply chains at an increasing rate. In addition to being environment friendly, effective management of reverse supply chain operations leads to higher profitability by reducing transportation, inventory and warehousing costs. Moreover, reverse supply chain operations have a strong impact on the operations of forward supply chain such as the occupancy of the storage spaces and transportation capacity"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Recycling (Waste, etc.)

Remanufacturing

Business logistics

Added Author:

Gupta, Surendra M.

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Winner of IIE Book of the Month, December 2013

The introduction of reverse supply chains has created many challenges in network design, transportation, selection of used products, selection and evaluation of suppliers, performance measurement, marketing-related issues, end-of-life (EOL) alternative selection, remanufacturing, disassembly, and product acquisition management, to name a few. Under the guidance of an expert editor and with contributions from pioneers in the field, Reverse Supply Chains: Issues and Analysis addresses several important issues faced by strategic, tactical, and operation planners of reverse supply chains, using efficient models in a variety of decision-making situations providing easy-to-use mathematical and/or simulation modeling-based solution methodologies for a majority of the issues.

The book introduces the basic concepts of reverse logistics and systematically analyzes the literature by classifying more than 400 published references into five major types of product returns. It then identifies the basic activities and scope of reverse logistics, examining its drivers and barriers as well as major issues and challenges. The chapters cover metrics for quantitatively comparing competing new-product designs for end-of-life disassembly on a reverse production line, how to use the theory of constraints thinking processes to determine the core problems in reverse logistics, and an integrated multi-criteria decision-making methodology using Taguchi loss functions AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and fuzzy programming. They explore issues associated with remanufacturing and green and resilient supply chain management and propose system modeling based on graph theory and network flows application to analyze material resource flows in the life cycle of a product.

Reverse supply chains is a new and fast growing area of research and only a handful of books are on the market, however t

Author Notes

Surendra M. Gupta

Mehmet All Ilgin and Surendra M. GuptaSamir K. SrivastavaSeamus M. McGovern and Surendra M. GuptaHilmi YükselKenichi Nakashima and Surendra M. GuptaNiloufar Ghoreishi and Mark J. Jakieta and Ali NekouzadehXiangrong Liu and Avijit Banerjee and Seung-Lae Kim and Ruo DuOnder Ondemir and Surendra M. GuptaSusana G. Azevedo and V. Cruz-Machado and Joerg S. Hofstetter and Elizabeth A. Cudney and Tian YihuiNeelesh Agrawal and Lovelesh Agarwal and F.T.S. Chan and M.K. TiwariMathiyazhagan Kaliyan and Kannan Govindan and Noorul HaqCan B. Kalayci and Surendra M. GuptaFabio GiudiceYing-Yen Chen and Hsiao-Fan WangA.J.D. Lambert and J.L. Schippers and W.H.P.M. van Hooff and H.W. Lintsen and F.C.A. Veraart

Preface	p. ix
Editor	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Chapter 1 Reverse Logistics	p. 1
Chapter 2 Issues and Challenges in Reverse Logistics	p. 61
Chapter 3 New-Product Design Metrics for Efficient Reverse Supply Chains	p. 83
Chapter 4 Application of Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes in a Reverse Logistics Process	p. 97
Chapter 5 Modeling Supplier Selection in Reverse Supply Chains	p. 113
Chapter 6 General Modeling Framework for Cost/Benefit Analysis of Remanufacturing	p. 125
Chapter 7 Integrated Inventory Models for Retail Pricing and Return Reimbursements in a JIT Environment for Remanufacturing a Product	p. 179
Chapter 8 Advanced Remanufacturing-to-Order and Disassembly-to-Order System under Demand/Decision Uncertainty	p. 203
Chapter 9 Importance of Green and Resilient SCM Practices for the Competitiveness of the Automotive Industry: A Multinational Perspective	p. 229
Chapter 10 Balanced Principal Solution for Green Supply Chain under Governmental Regulations	p. 253
Chapter 11 Barrier Analysis to Improve Green in Existing Supply Chain Management	p. 273
Chapter 12 River Formation Dynamics Approach for Sequence-Dependent Disassembly Line Balancing Problem	p. 289
Chapter 13 Graph-Based Approach for Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Life Cycle Resource Flows	p. 313
Chapter 14 Delivery and Pickup Problems with Time Windows: Strategy and Modeling	p. 343
Chapter 15 Materials Flow Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Long-Term Developments	p. 365
Author Index	p. 381
Subject Index	p. 395

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