Identify and prioritise the critical factors in implementing the reverse logistics practices: a case of Indian auto component manufacturer

Luthra, Sunil; Mangla, Sachin Kumar; Kumar, Sanjay; Garg, Dixit; Haleem, Abid

doi:10.1504/ijbsr.2017.080834

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“…RL is a relatively new term (Mangla et al , 2016). It focusses on waste management and product recovery and has immense potential for increasing profit (Lambert et al , 2011; Luthra et al , 2017; Stindt et al , 2017). RL includes all logistics activities that enable the returns of used products in order to recapture value or implement proper disposal.…”

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Reverse logistics risk management: identification, clustering and risk mitigation strategies

Panjehfouladgaran

Lim

2020

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PurposeReverse logistics (RL), an inseparable aspect of supply chain management, returns used products to recovery processes with the aim of reducing waste generation. Enterprises, however, seem reluctant to apply RL due to various types of risks which are perceived as posing an economic threat to businesses. This paper draws on a synthesis of supply chain and risk management literature to identify and cluster RL risk factors and to recommend risk mitigation strategies for reducing the negative impact of risks on RL implementation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors identify and cluster risk factors in RL by using risk management theory. Experts in RL and supply chain risk management validated the risk factors via a questionnaire. An unsupervised data mining method, self-organising map, is utilised to cluster RL risk factors into homogeneous categories.FindingsA total of 41 risk factors in the context of RL were identified and clustered into three different groups: strategic, tactical and operational. Risk mitigation strategies are recommended to mitigate the RL risk factors by drawing on supply chain risk management approaches.Originality/valueThis paper studies risks in RL and recommends risk management strategies to control and mitigate risk factors to implement RL successfully.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Reverse logistics risk management: identification, clustering and risk mitigation strategies

Panjehfouladgaran

Lim

2020

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“…Considering that the use of medicaments is intrinsic to certain chronical treatments, thus their use is inevitable and necessary for individuals' health and well-being, it is essential to understand how different factors affect the effective implementation of reverse logistics (Luthra et al 2017;Mangla et al 2016). Moreover, the chronic patient's care must be maintained, along with all the complexity of tasks that the pandemic brings to the pharmaceutical care professionals, such as isolation instructions, safety guidelines, and vaccination.…”

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End-of-use and end-of-life medicines—insights from pharmaceutical care process into waste medicines management

Campos

Caten

Paula

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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End-of-use and end-of-life medicines waste management has been a challenge for public and private managers in different countries. Reverse logistics is a waste management strategy whose application to public pharmaceutical care processes faces legal restrictions and incertitude. Nevertheless, reverse logistics of end-of-use and end-of-life medicines may be both a saving and an environmental strategy in developing countries that manage health under limited resources. How to overcome restrictions to reverse logistics mainly in the context of primary health level? This study aims to investigate the most relevant critical factors for implementing medicine waste management in pharmaceutical care process. The unit analysis is the primary health level process in a developing country capital. Considering the characteristics of the issue at hand, it was designed a qualitative study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The interviewees were key individuals who work directly with the process—from administering medicine to patients to managing waste at the end of the medicine’s lifespan or after its use. Results indicated that despite reverse logistics arising from end users is legally forbidden, another type of reverse flow emerged from process analysis. The reverse flow, named reassignment flow, consists of still useful end-of-use medicines exchanged among the 10 government-ran pharmacies and over 140 health centers, where healthcare professionals administer and offer guidance on how to use them correctly. Another result was the identification of the most critical factors in implementing reverse logistics strategies in the public management context. The factors mentioned included aspects pertaining to management, information technology, infrastructure, and government, but they differ from the private context management, in which decision-makers has more freedom. Due to the barriers named by interviewees, the political barriers and complexity of primary health system, results of this investigation point to (i) reinforcing the reassignment flows inside pharmaceutical care logistics cycle, for saving purposes, and (ii) further development of a specific management unit to perform reverse logistics of end-of-use medicines arising from consumers, for environmental purposes. In times of shortage or resources caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, to know the critical factors is a step necessary in overcoming the current restrictions in direction of a well-succeeded medicines reverse logistics, either of reassignment or from final consumers. These results clarify the literature on end-of-use and end-of-life medicines reverse logistics. It also provides managers of 5000 municipalities in the country a perspective on the most relevant critical factors involved in their decision-making process, concerning the reuse of end-of-use medicines or the adequate disposal of end-of-life medicines in the environment. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material availa...

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“…Therefore, instead of merely focusing on the forward flow of SCs, businesses are now looking at SCs in a broader way by taking into account the Reverse Logistics (RL) of products (Batarfi, Jaber, and Aljazzar 2017;Zheng et al 2017). Integrating RL into the conventional SC can maximize the value of resources and reduce waste, while helping companies gain profit through the recovery of the used materials (Luthra et al 2017;Pal and Pal 2017;Wang et al 2017).…”

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A review of reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management studies published in IJPR: a bibliometric and content analysis

Kazemi

Modak²,

Govindan³

2018

International Journal of Production Research

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Reverse Logistics and Closed Loop Supply Chain Management (RL&CLSCM) are universally recognised as two environmentally friendly practices that could help in greening conventional supply chains. The popularity of these fields of research has led to the evolution of a vast number of publications in the literature. Various journals have so far contributed to the advancement of the field, with the International Journal of Production of Research (IJPR) being one of the most prominent contributed journals. To celebrate the 55th volume anniversary of IJPR, this review study aims to investigate the studies in the area of RL&CLSCM published in IJPR. The paper presents a thorough bibliometric and content analysis of 94 studies that were published in IJPR from 2000 until July 2017. The studies initially underwent a rigorous bibliometric and mapping analysis that helped to identify their characteristics. Subsequently, the contents of the sample papers were evaluated thoroughly. The content analysis led to classification of the papers into two main categories and sub-categories, and then to rigorous identification of the papers' attributes. The bibliometric and content analysis disclosed several research gaps that remain to be addressed in IJPR.

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Identify and prioritise the critical factors in implementing the reverse logistics practices: a case of Indian auto component manufacturer

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

Reverse logistics risk management: identification, clustering and risk mitigation strategies

Reverse logistics risk management: identification, clustering and risk mitigation strategies

End-of-use and end-of-life medicines—insights from pharmaceutical care process into waste medicines management

A review of reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management studies published in IJPR: a bibliometric and content analysis

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