Environmental Strategies for Electrical and Electronic Equipment Supply Chains: Which to Choose?

Environmental Strategies for Electrical and Electronic Equipment Supply Chains: Which to Choose?

Waste electrical and electronic equipment is one of the major world-wide waste streams triggering the emergence of environmental strategies. Environmental regulations, closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) activities and design-for-environment (DfE) practices are environmental friendly strategies being implemented by governments and industry. In this paper, we apply a System Dynamics model to a CLSC ...

Evolving Middlemen Strategies For Simple Supply Chains

This research is concerned with the evolution of middlemen strategies for simple, but non-trivial, supply chains. The work contributes a language for modelling simple supply chains, a framework for representing middlemen strategies and a platform for evolving these strategies. The work shows that for reasonably complex economic problems, that contain a great deal of uncertainty, the evolution o...

Developing a Model for Measuring Severity of Effects Caused by Interconnected Units in Electronic Supply Chains

For many electronic supply chain networks in the world that can comprise hundreds ofcompanies with several tiers of suppliers and intermediate customers, there are numerous presentingrisks to consider. In the electronic supply chain, the situation are even worse, for the characteristics ofthis supply chain: excessive lean management, global sourcing and the rather more uncertain marketdemand. E...

Environmental Impact of Supply Chains

Environmental Information System for Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Managent: Case Study of Pernambuco (Brazil)

The National Policy on Solid Waste (NPSW) brought a new dimension to waste management in Brazil. According to the requirements of this law, producers, traders, recyclers, importers, distributors, and consumers are each held responsible for waste outcomes. The establishment of reverse logistics systems, also proposed by the law, begins from the management of diffuse interests in support of envir...