Gungor and Gupta [1999, Issues in environmentally conscious manufacturing and product
recovery: a survey. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 36 (4), 811–853] presented an …

This paper aims to describe and analyse the main characteristics of articles on reverse
logistics published in the production and operations management field, in order to determine …

Due to the environmental legislation and regulations, manufacturing firms have realized the
importance of adopting environmental friendly supply chain management (SCM) practices …

Economic, marketing, and legislative considerations are increasingly leading companies to
take back and recover their products after use. From a logistics perspective, these initiatives …

We study the production planning problem for a multi-product closed loop system, in which
the manufacturer has two channels for supplying products: producing brand-new products …

IBM is among the pioneers recognizing the benefits of closed-loop supply chains that
integrate product returns into business operations. We worked on a project exploiting …

The increased popularity of remanufacturing requires firms to rethink their supply chain
systems and explore new avenues for the coordination of forward and reverse supply chains …

Recent years have witnessed companies abandon traditional open-loop supply chain
structures in favour of closed-loop variants, in a bid to mitigate environmental impacts and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify the key issues faced by today's supply
chain professionals when managing reverse logistics (RL) processes and compare these …

Revenue management for remanufactured products has not been addressed in literature so
far. There could be more than one quality level of the recovered products, which would draw …