scholarly journals Management of reverse logistics in the supply chain system

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7(8)) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Marchuk Volodymyr ◽  
Savchenko Lidia ◽  
Harmash Oleg
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Return Flow ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Reverse Logistics Management

The article considers the issue of return flow management in supply chains. Recently, this problem has become particularly acute due to growing economic losses and social, economic and security threats, a sharp increase in the return of unused, substandard, end-of-life products, hazardous and hazardous waste, materials for recycling and regeneration. This link of business processes was not even distinguished in the structure of the supply chain before. Based on the analysis of the theory and practice of recycling, resource conservation, recycling and disposal, the authors concluded that it is necessary to form a closed supply chain with the participation of reversible flows and based on the concept of product life cycle. The example of Ukraine illustrates the current situation with the formation and accumulation and processing of waste production and life due to the actual lack of reverse logistics services. The paper develops a comprehensive scheme-structure of existing problems of reverse logistics and offers specific recommendations for solving problems of reverse logistics management in Ukraine. Each aspect of improving the management system considered from the standpoint of economic, social, environmental, technical and technological efficiency. Particular attention paid to the relevant educational work with the population on ways to implement the principles of reversible logistics, improving the culture of consumption together with the introduction of legal and social responsibility.

scholarly journals Prioritizing the Solutions to Reverse Logistics Barriers for the E-Commerce Industry in Pakistan Based on a Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12743
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hamza Naseem ◽  
Jiaqi Yang ◽  
Ziquan Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Forward Logistics ◽  
Reverse Logistics Management ◽  
Topsis Approach

In the past few years, reverse logistics practices have successfully managed to gain more attention in various industries and among supply chain researchers and experts. This is due to globalization, environmental concerns, and customer requirements, which have asserted industries’ concerns for reverse logistics management. In E-commerce, the process of reverse logistics originates with parcel refusal, undelivered goods, and exchanges. In developing countries like Pakistan, the adoption and implications of reverse logistics are still at their early stages. E-commerce companies give more attention to forward logistics and ignore logistics’ upstream flow in the supply chain. This study aims to identify, as well as list, the barriers and obtain the solutions to those identified barriers, and rank the barriers and their solutions so that logisticians and experts can solve them as per their priority. From the extensive literature review and experts’ opinions, we have found 14 barriers in implementing effective reverse logistics. Eight solutions to those barriers were also found from the literature review. This paper proposed the methodology based on fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy-AHP), which used to get the weights of each barrier by using pairwise comparison, and fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (fuzzy-TOPSIS) method, which was adopted for the final ranking of solutions to reverse logistics. The case of the Pakistan E-commerce industry is used in the proposed method.

Design and Operating for the Logistics Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 3101-3105
Author(s):  
Yan Ling Wang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Product Introduction ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Chain System

Logistics supply chain system management is the integration of key business processes from end user through original logistics suppliers that provides products, services, and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders. Due to the emergence of the global economy and intensified competition, many modern firms in the industry have recognized the importance of managing their logistics supply chains for fast product introduction and service innovations to the markets since the introduction of the term logistics supply chain management. For improved competitiveness, many modern firms in the industry have embraced the logistics supply chain management to increase organizational effectiveness and achieve such organizational goals as improved customer value, better utilization of resources, and increased profitability, through suitable design and effective operating of logistics supply chain system.

A Stochastic Approach to Product-Driven Supply Chain Design

2015 ◽  
pp. 82-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaoula Besbes ◽  
Hamid Allaoui ◽  
Gilles Goncalves ◽  
Taicir Loukil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Stochastic Approach ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Uncertain Information ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Product Life

Supply chain is an alliance of independent business processes, such as supplier, manufacturing, and distribution processes that perform the critical functions in the order fulfillment process. However, the discussions in marketing and logistic literature universally conclude that it would be desirable to determine the life cycle of products in the firm, as they have a great impact on appropriate supply chain design. Designing a supply chain effectively is a complex and challenging task, due to the increasing outsourcing, globalization of businesses, continuous advances in information technology, and product life cycle uncertainty. Indeed, uncertainty is one of the characteristics of the product life cycle. In particular, the strategic design of the supply chain has to take uncertain information into account. This chapter presents a two-phase mathematical programming approach for effective supply chain design with product life cycle uncertainty considerations.

RESEARCH ON BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT-BASED SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIN YU ◽  
CHENGSHENG LIANG ◽  
SHUFEN LI ◽  
XUE SUN
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Chain System

Supply chain management provides a new kind of enterprise relationship management for ensuring the survival and development of enterprises in modern market competition, but with the development of business, information explosion, and the acceleration of business globalization, supply chain management will become increasingly complex. This article provides a method to construct the enterprise supply chain systems from the perspective of the business process management. It utilizes service-oriented architecture to achieve the componentization of each business unit, which makes chain system adapt to the changes of business processes rapidly and deploy these changes into IT system. Ultimately, IT systems can respond to supply chain system in time and then reduce operation costs and time when enterprise is carrying out business restructuring and process optimization.

scholarly journals Supply chain development drivers in industry 4.0 in Ukrainian enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevhen Krykavskyy ◽  
Olena Pokhylchenko ◽  
Nataliya Hayvanovych
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Model Of Management ◽  
Role Of Information

Research background: Industry 4.0 is a response to rapid technical progress, caused by the dominant role of information technology, which covers and penetrates virtually into all the aspects of people's economic and social activities. At present, the terms “Digital Supply Chain”, “Supply Chain 4.0”, “Digital logistics”, and “Smart logistics” are widely used in business, and in particular, in the theory and practice of supply chain management (SCM). This demonstrates the relevance of the implementation of Industry 4.0 innovations into the practical activities of manufacturing, trading, and logistics companies, interconnected by networking in the process of delivering products or services to final consumers. In turn, this causes fundamental changes in the structure of supply chains, their business processes and behaviours, making existing approaches to management obsolete. Purpose of the article: The article aims at identifying supply chain development drivers under the conditions of ‘Industry 4.0’; determining the effect of DT in the cross-section of strategic and operational changes of supply chain; clarifying the readiness and capacity for DT implementation in the enterprises activity as exemplified by the enterprises operating in Ukraine in various fields of activity. Methods: Stratified proportional sampling was applied as the research method. Ukrainian enterprises of different size, involved in different supply chains, were considered as an object of research. The attitude of the Ukrainian enterprises to the DT implementation is presented, and the results are compared to the relevant research data in other countries. Findings & Value: This study will be valuable to both scientists and practitioners. Scientists will be able to understand the conceptual transformation of SC under the influence of DT. Practitioners will become aware of the following issues: current SCM trends and requirements; DT effects on the strategic and operational levels of the classical model of management; the level of readiness and ability of the Ukrainian enterprises to implement DT in their activities as compared to the enterprises in other countries.

scholarly journals A Blockchain-Based Secure Radio Frequency Identification Ownership Transfer Protocol

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
M. Vijayalakshmi ◽  
S. Mercy Shalinie ◽  
Ming Hour Yang ◽  
Shou-Chuan Lai ◽  
Jia-Ning Luo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
Ownership Transfer ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Transfer Protocol

Supply chain management (SCM) governance is the streamline of the IoT product life cycle from its production to delivery. Integrating blockchain with supply chain management is essential to ensure end-to-end tracking, trustiness between manufacturers and customers, fraud and counterfeit elimination, and customizing administrative costs and paperwork. This paper proposes an RFID ownership transfer protocol with the help of zk-SNARKs (Zero Knowledge-Succinct Noninteractive Arguments of Knowledge) using Ethereum blockchain. When the owner performs RFID transfer, the transferred information will be recorded on the blockchain using smart contracts. When using a smart contract to transfer ownership on the Ethereum blockchain, because the content on the blockchain will not be tampered with, all accounts in the Ethereum can view the transfer results and verify them. The privacy of the supply chain is attained by generating the proof of product code via zk-SNARKs algorithm. This algorithm also enhances the scalability of the supply chain system by creating a trusted setup in off-chain mode.

Forecasting product returns for recycling in Indian electronics industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Agrawal ◽  
Rajesh K. Singh ◽  
Qasim Murtaza
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Reverse Supply Chain ◽  
Product Returns ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for forecasting product returns to the company for recycling in terms of quantity and time. Design/methodology/approach – Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) has been applied for developing the forecasting model for product returns. A case of Indian mobile manufacturing company is discussed for the validation of this model. Survey conducted by the company and findings from previous research were used for data collection on probabilities and product life cycle. Findings – Product returns for their recycling are stochastic, random and uncertain. Therefore, to address the uncertainty, randomness and stochastic nature of product returns, GERT is very useful tool for forecasting product returns. Practical implications – GERT provides the visual picture of the reverse supply chain system and helps in determining the expected time of product returns in a much easier way but it requires probabilities of different flows and product life cycle. Both factors vary over a period, so require data update time to time before implementation. Originality/value – This model is developed by considering all possible flows of sold products from customer to their reuse, store or recycle or landfill. First time this type of real life flows have been considered and GERT has been applied for forecasting product returns. This model can be utilized by managers for better forecasting that will help them for effective reverse supply chain design.

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