Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)/E-waste: A comprehensive literature review

Product Resynthesis as a Reverse Logistics Strategy for an Optimal Closed-Loop Supply Chain

Volume 4: 18th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference; 2013 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications ◽

10.1115/detc2013-12587 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Chinmay Sane ◽

Conrad S. Tucker

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Reverse Logistics ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Manufacturing Firms ◽

Third Party ◽

High Tech ◽

Closed Loop Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Strategy ◽

Logistics Strategy ◽

Original Product

With continued emphasis on sustainability-driven design, reverse logistics is emerging as a vital competitive supply chain strategy for many of the global high-tech manufacturing firms. Various original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and multi-product manufacturing firms are enhancing their reverse logistics strategies in order to establish an optimal closed-loop supply chain through which they can introduce refurbished variants of their products back into the market. While a refurbished product strategy helps to mitigate environmental impact challenges as well as provide additional economic benefits, it is limited to an existing product market, possibly a subset of the existing market, and fails to commercialize/target new markets. In addition to refurbishing, the alternatives available for utilizing End-Of-Life (EOL) products are currently restricted to recycling and permanent disposal. In this work, the authors propose employing a new EOL option called “resynthesis” that utilizes existing waste from EOL products in a novel way. This is achieved through the synthesis of assemblies/subassemblies across multiple domains. The “newly” synthesized product can then be incorporated into the dynamics of a closed-loop supply chain. The proposed methodology enables OEMs to not only offer refurbished products as part of their reverse logistics strategy, but also provide them with resynthesized product concepts that can be used to expand to new/emerging markets. The proposed methodology provides a general framework that includes OEMs (manufacturers of the original product), retailers (distributors of the original product and collectors of the EOL products) and third-party firms (managers of the EOL products) as part of a closed-loop supply chain strategy. The proposed methodology is compared with the existing methodologies in the literature wherein a third-party supplies the OEM only with refurbished products and supplies products unsuitable for refurbishing to another firm(s) for recycling/disposal. A case study involving a multi-product electronics manufacturer is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology.

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Closed-loop supply chain design for the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic literature review of methods, applications and current gaps

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129101 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 129101

Author(s):

Azar MahmoumGonbadi ◽

Andrea Genovese ◽

Antonino Sgalambro

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Literature Review ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Supply Chain Design ◽

Closed Loop Supply Chain

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Closed-Loop Supply Chain: A bibliometric and visualization analysis

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123400011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 234 ◽

pp. 00011

Author(s):

Liudmyla Saher ◽

Liubov Syhyda ◽

Olena Korobets ◽

Tamara Berezianko

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Reverse Logistics ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Scientific Production ◽

Closed Loop Supply Chain ◽

Visualization Analysis ◽

Current State ◽

Country Clusters ◽

Scopus Database ◽

Productive Authors

Nowadays, enterprises have to be good for society, to take care of the environment, and to achieve profit at the same time. And the closed-loop supply chain helps them being so. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research in the area of “Closed-Loop Supply Chain”. Thus, this research aims to present a bibliometric overview to define the current state of scientific production regarding “Closed-Loop Supply Chain”. The review of 807 publications from the Scopus database (1995–2020) was conducted. Two combinations of words with the logical operator (“supply chain” AND “reverse logistics”) were used. The “title, abstract, keywords” field of search in the Scopus database was done. The visualization of the results was made using VOSviewer program to graphically map the material. The study used the co-occurrence of keywords and co-authorship (country) analyses. As a result, the most productive authors and journals were defined. The most cited studies were determined. Country clusters and keywords (co-occurrence) clusters were represented. The obtained results of the analysis and graphical presentations are relevant, and they form the basis for a better understanding of the concept of Closed-Loop Supply Chain.

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