There is a growing need for integrating environmentally sound choices into supply‐chain
management research and practice. Perusal of the literature shows that a broad frame of …

This article surveys the recently emerged field of reverse logistics. The management of
return flows induced by the various forms of reuse of products and materials in industrial …

The supply chain has been traditionally defined as a one‐way, integrated manufacturing
process wherein raw materials are converted into final products, then delivered to …

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

Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Product Recovery (ECMPRO) has become
an obligation to the environment and to the society itself, enforced primarily by governmental …

Remanufacturing represents a higher form of reuse by focusing on value-added recovery,
rather than materials recovery (ie, recycling). Remanufacturing systems are widespread in …

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

Recoverable manufacturing systems minimize the environmental impact of industry by
reusing materials, reducing energy use, and reducing the need to landfill industrial products …

Conventional wisdom in value chain strategy assumes a one-directional flow of primary
activities, starting from inbound logistics to operations, outbound logistics, marketing and …

Recently, meta-heuristics have been employed and improved for solving various scheduling
and combinational optimization problems. Disassembly line balancing, planning and …