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 ...

Growing environmental concerns have motivated businesses to carefully assess the environmental impact of their products and services at all stages of a life-cycle. Reverse logistics plays an important role in achieving ‘‘green supply chains’’ by providing customers with the opportunity to return the warranted and/or defective products to the manufacturer. An efficient reverse logistics structur...

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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...

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...

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...

Forward-reverse logistics network has remained a subject of intensive research over the past few years. It is of significant importance to be issued in a supply chain because it affects responsiveness of supply chains. In real world, problems are needed to be formulated. These problems usually involve objectives such as cost, quality, and customers' responsiveness and so on. To this reason, we ...