Reverse Logistics Quantitative Models for Closed-Loop Supply Chains
Reverse logistics concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. Economic, marketing, and legislative drivers increasingly are leading companies to take back and recover their products after use. T
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Rommert Dekker Moritz Fleischmann Karl Inderfurth Luk N. Van Wassenhove Editors
REVERSE LOGISTICS Quantitative Models for Closed-Loop Supply Chains
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Professor Dr. Rommert Dekker Rotterdam School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] Dr. Moritz Fleischmann Rotterdam School of Management/Faculteit Bedrijfskunde Erasmus University Rotterdam Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] Professor Dr. Karl Inderfurth Faculty of Economics and Management Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Universitatsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Inderfurth @ww.uni-magdeburg.de Professor Dr. Luk N. Van Wassenhove Technology Management Department INSEAD Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau, France [email protected]
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Preface
Today's supply chains no longer are confined to one-way product flows from producers to consumers, but increasingly also need to deal with flows in the opposite direction. Examples of such 'reverse' streams of products range from end-of-life computer equipment to returned merchandise in online channels, from reusable packaging to defective products requiring rework. Managing these complex interrelated flows confronts companies with novel challenges. At the same time, it calls for a broadening of scientific theory. In 1997, we initiated a European research networ
