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Why Does Quality Matter? The Impact of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Corporate Performance
Published in Norhayati Zakaria, Flevy Lasrado, Embedding Culture and Quality for High Performing Organizations, 2019
Carter and Ellram (1998, p.86) defined reverse logistics as “the return or take back of products and materials from the point of consumption to the forward supply chain for the purpose of recycling, reuse, remanufacture, repair, refurbishing or safe disposal of the products and materials.” Like other green supply chain initiatives, reverse logistics play a key role in enhancing the organization’s operational efficiency, improving its competitiveness, and reducing system-wide costs. Reverse logistics are one of the most commonly used GSCM practices in the extant literature. For example, Perotti et al. (2012) included reverse logistics along with other GSCM initiatives in their study on logistics providers in Italy to assess the adoption level of these initiatives and their potential impact on different CP dimensions. Likewise, Diabat et al. (2013) employed the fuzzy TOPSIS method to explore how reverse logistics, along with other GSCM initiatives, can lead to improved CP. Moreover, reverse logistics were among three GSCM practices that Eltayeb and Zailani (2009) ranked according to adoption levels in Malaysia.
Multi-Layer Multi-Product Reverse Supply Chain: Defects and Pricing Model
Published in Hamed Fazlollahtabar, Supply Chain Management Models: Forward, Reverse, Uncertain, and Intelligent, 2018
The effective implementation of reverse logistics does not preclude achieving one goal at the expense of the other. Considering this, many world class companies have realized that reverse logistics practices, combined with source reduction processes, can be used to gain competitive advantage and at the same time can achieve sustainable development (Maslennikova and Foley, 2000; Neto et al., 2008; Seuring and Muller, 2008; Hu and Bidanda, 2009; Lee et al., 2010). Firms engaged in reverse supply chains are in the process of investment recovery and certainly would receive direct (input materials, cost reduction, value added recovery) and indirect benefits (impeding legislation, market protection, green image and improvement in customer/supplier relations). Guide Jr. and Van Wassenhove (2009) revealed that US $700 million of perfectly operating product that could be recovered were destroyed. They found that a US firm, ReCellular, has gained economic advantage through refurbishing cell phones. Manufacturer HP showcased that returns of its products could cost around 2% of total outbound sales and only half of them were being recovered (Guide et al., 2006).
AHP
Published in Surendra M. Gupta, Mehmet Ali Ilgin, Multiple Criteria Decision Making Applications in Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Product Recovery, 2017
Surendra M. Gupta, Mehmet Ali Ilgin
Barker and Zabinsky (2011) obtained a preference ordering of eight alternative reverse logistics network configurations by using AHP with sensitivity analysis. Jiang et al. (2012) employed AHP to solve the remanufacturing portfolio selection problem. The sustainability level of manufacturing systems was evaluated in Ziout et al. (2013) based on the results of an AHP analysis. Sarmiento and Thomas (2010) used AHP to determine the improvement areas in the implementation of green initiatives. Shaik and Abdul-Kader (2012) developed a two-phase performance measurement system for reverse logistic systems. The first phase involved the development of a reverse logistics performance measurement system by integrating balanced scorecard and performance prism. The overall comprehensive performance index (OCPI) was calculated in the second phase based on the integration of AHP with the system constructed in the first phase. The Reman decision making framework (RDMF) developed in Subramoniam et al. (2010) was validated in Subramoniam et al. (2013) by using AHP.
The role of reverse logistics in a circular economy for achieving sustainable development goals: a multiple case study of retail firms
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2023
Atif Saleem Butt, Imran Ali, Kannan Govindan
Reverse logistics is compatible and fits well within a circular economy, particularly the reverse route of technical items, which closely mimics the reverse logistics operations described in numerous academic works (Rogers and Tibben‐Lembke 2001). Reverse logistics can further aid the shift to a circular economy by closing the loop on product life cycles (Makarova, Shubenkova, and Pashkevich 2018). It is well established that recovering and recycling a product is crucial to reducing waste, and efficient reverse logistics may reduce waste from the beginning of the product design process to the end of the production process, resulting in a lower carbon footprint for a brand. Burke, Zhang, and Wang (2021) also indicated that designing end-of-life products is an excellent place to start while establishing a circular supply chain in the transition to a circular economy. Furthermore, to promote a circular economy and reduce waste generation, businesses must dispose of garbage in an environmentally appropriate manner. As a result, efficient reverse logistics can help with the most efficient reuse, recycling, and waste disposal (Wang et al. 2019).
Adoption challenges of blockchain technology for reverse logistics in the food processing industry
Published in Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 2023
Anupama Panghal, Suyash Manoram, Rahul S Mor, Priyanka Vern
Reverse logistics is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the effective and cost-efficient flow of inventory, raw material, inventory, finished products, and information related to the point of manufacture to capture value or proper disposal. The arena for facing the challenges of sustainability and globalisation is recycling, refabricating, and adequate disposal (Lambert, Riopel, and Abdul-Kader 2011). Reverse logistics means the physical flow of unused or discarded material that lost its value from the consumer place. Its main feature is to regain that value or get adequately disposed of (Shi et al. 2012). When the final product is no more in the use of the customer than either for disposal or recycling of the product, the onset of reverse logistics begins with the collection of recyclable material. Further, transportation, sorting, storage, and remanufacturing make the product recycled and transformed into a usable form, and the waste is transferred to be dumped at the proper place (Pohlen and Theodore Farris 1992). Reverse logistics significantly impact the company’s performance by reselling value and customer satisfaction. Profitable business emerges with reverse logistics’ involvement in repairing, refabricating, reconfiguring, recycling, etc. This company can gain the advantages of economies of scale. Effective reverse logistics directly benefit customer satisfaction, decrease inventory level, etc. (Autry, Daugherty, and Glenn Richey 2001).
Prioritization of sustainable supply chain practices with triple bottom line and organizational theories: industry and academic perspectives
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2020
Tritos Laosirihongthong, Premaratne Samaranayake, Sev Verl Nagalingam, Dotun Adebanjo
Reverse logistics practices, overall, was ranked third across the TBL dimensions. When compared to the context of the other practices, this middle-ranking seems logical for a number of reasons. First, it is an activity that the organizations have a lot of control over even though it is not their core competence of design and manufacturing. Second, the fact that they will be responsible for driving their reverse logistics operations implies that much of any economic benefits gained will accrue to the company thereby providing and incentive to adopt the practice. Third, legislation is increasingly mandating original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to set up reverse logistics operations and especially for electronic products which may contain harmful components. Therefore, even if the direct economic benefits of reverse logistics are not as high as those of sustainable design and sustainable manufacturing, there may be a regulatory obligation to set up reverse logistics operations. According to Hsu et al. (2013), regulatory pressure is a key green supply chain driver for broader green supply chain initiatives, including reverse logistics.