Over the last few years, the management of reverse logistics has become not only a growing reality for organizations (Rogers, Lambert, Croston & GarciaDastugue, 2002) but also a vector of competitiveness used by an increasing number of managers (Dowlatshahi, 2000). Daugherty, Richey, Hudgens, and Autry (2003), however, remind us that “reverse logistics has been described as going the wrong way ...

In this paper, a bi-objective mixed-integer linear optimization model for Closed-loop Supply Chain Network Design Problem (CLSCND) is developed. The proposed model includes both the forward and reverse directions and includes different types of facilities, namely, manufacturing/remanufacturing centers, warehouses, and disassembly centers. The first objective function tried to minimize the total...

ŠKAPA RADOSLAV. 2014. Formalized Planning and Its Connection With the Development of Reverse Logistics: the Case of Services. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(4): 749–755. The best-in-class companies are able to retrieve 64 per cent of the original value of reverse fl ows, whereas it is only 12.5 per cent in average companies. Thus, reverse logistics is...

Attention with reverse logistics networks has increased during the last decade since their economic impact has been increasingly important and as environmental legislation has been becoming stricter. In this paper, A multi-period multi-echelon forward–reverse logistics network design under risk model is developed. The proposed network structure consists of three echelons in the forward directio...

Many businesses have now realized that a Reverse Logistics system can be used to gain competitive advantage. Even the best retailers and vendors now have reason to review how their returns programs are managed. New technologies and service providers now offer an opportunity to improve overall ‘total returns performance’. This means not only reducing the ‘total cost of returns’, but utilizing re...

In this study, a bi-objective optimization model was established to solve the cooperative distribution problem of multi-center hybrid fleet by integrating reverse logistics under real-time road conditions. According characteristics and considering power level battery capacity electric vehicles, multi-objective immune genetic algorithm (MOIGA) designed compared with an elitist strategy algorithm...

compared to conventional chlorination methods which apply chlorine at water treatment plant, booster chlorination has almost solved the problems of high dosages of chlorine residuals near water sources and lack of chlorine residuals in the remote points of a water distribution system (wds). however, control of trihalomethane (thm) formation as a potentially carcinogenic disinfection by-product ...

Disaster recovery operations rarely proceed smoothly and disruptions often require the redistribution of relief items. Such a redistribution has to be carried out taking into account both the current disruption and the uncertainty regarding possible future incidents in the respective area. As decisions have to be made fast in humanitarian operations, extensive optimization runs cannot be conduc...

this paper defines how a meta heuristic search engine called p.s.o can be used to maximize the objective function of a logistic regression model, describing the relationship between the response variable (product designs' score) and a set of explanatory variables (product design factors). at the first phase the processed data, classified and categorized, by kansie engineering is used as input t...