Optimization of a Reverse Logistics Network within the Ambit of Mobile Phones
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چکیده
The present paper deals with the study of the design of a recycling chain for a certain type of WEEE, the mobile phones. The goal is to analyse the optimal design of the logistics network required to guarantee that the amount of wasted mobile phones obtained at the generation points is collected, managed and transported in an appropriate way to the destination points constituted by recycling companies. The problem falls into the category of the so named LRP (Location and Routing problems). The solution is achieved by adopting a sequential approach which implies to divide up the problem into two interrelated problems: one double location problem (of recycling centrals and transfer stations) and a routing problem which is solved by means of a modified version of Clarke and Wright (1964) method with limited capacity (CVRP) and with multiple depots (MDVRP).
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