Modeling reverse logistics process in the agro-industrial sector: The case of the palm oil supply chain

Alfonso-Lizarazo, Edgar; Montoya‐Torres, Jairo R.; Gutiérrez-Franco, Edgar

doi:10.1016/j.apm.2013.05.015

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“…Thus, currently, Reverse Logistics (RL) is receiving increasing attention by manufacturers. RL is one of the key aspects of green logistic management [10]. The first contribution to the knowledge on reverse and environmental issue began in the 1960s and 1970s [11] and during the past decade there has been a renewed interest in reverse logistics.…”

Section: Reverse Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ranking of critical success factors in reverse logistics by TOPSIS

Bahiraei

Panjehfouladgaran

Yusuff

2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

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Environmental issues and governmental regulations have pushed companies to be more environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Sustainable production plays an important role in the global markets and companies practicing sustainable manufacturing processes for protecting the environment can increase their competitiveness. Reverse logistics is one of the sustainable approaches, which returns back used product from point of consumption to the point of origin due to recovery and product reuse. The identification of critical success factors for reverse logistics is essential to facilitate reverse logistics organization in implementing it. In this work, critical success factors (CSFs) in reverse logistics were identified based on the critical success factors in supply chain management. A survey was conducted among reverse logistics experts to identify the factors.Then, the factors were ranked by TOPSIS, showed that transportation as the most important factor followed by process planning and resource efficiency. However, innovation was the lowest ranked.

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Section: Reverse Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ranking of critical success factors in reverse logistics by TOPSIS

Bahiraei

Panjehfouladgaran

Yusuff

2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

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“…In this spreadsheet, the environmental impacts of the retrieving process are also computed (Equations (8)- (11)). The second spreadsheet reproduces the flow of assets in the CLSC and computes the environmental impacts of shipments, purchases and losses/damages of assets (Equations (1)- (7), (12) and (13)). In the same spreadsheet, the KPIs related to the environmental performance of Company A (Equations (14)- (18)) and the economic/strategic KPIs are also calculated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They modelled three closely related CLSCs, consisting of a manufacturer, who also recycles the used products, and a collector of used products. Alfonso-Lizarazo et al [12] showed how the potential for managing reverse logistics flows could be implemented in the agro-industrial sector. To this end, they developed a mathematical model that considers simultaneously the forward and reverse flows in a CLSC of agri-food products and evaluated different scenarios of interactions between forward and reverse flows.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More specifically, most of the studies reviewed addressed mainly the economic perspective of sustainability, while only few of them (e.g., [34,36]) tried to model the environmental impact of CLSCs. However, evaluating also the environmental burden of logistics activities is an increasingly important topic, as these activities are likely to generate undesired by-products, such as inefficient (or excessive) use of fossil fuels and their CO 2 emissions [12,24,40]. Secondly, the case of RTIs management is not much explored in literature, despite the fact that RTIs are always subject to forward and reverse flows (as they are expected to be returned after usage) and therefore represent typical items to be managed in a CLSC.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Minimization of the Environmental Emissions of Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Case Study of Returnable Transport Assets Management

Bottani

Casella

2018

Sustainability

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This study investigates the issue of minimizing the environmental burden of a real closed-loop supply chain (CLSC), consisting of a pallet provider, a manufacturer and several retailers. A simulation model is developed under Microsoft Excel™ (Microsoft Corporation, Washington, US) to reproduce the flow of returnable transport items (RTIs) in the CLSC and to compute the corresponding environmental impact. Multi-objective optimization, including some relevant environmental key performance indicators (KPIs), is then carried out exploiting the commercial software ModeFRONTIER™ (ESTECO S.p.A., Trieste, Italy), to determine the settings that minimize emissions of the CLSC. In addition, economic and strategic metrics are taken into account in the optimization, to make the analysis more comprehensive. Three scenarios are considered (one "base" scenario and two scenarios examined in a sensitivity analysis) with different relative importance assigned to the metrics subject to optimization. Results show that the asset retrieving operations contribute to the environmental impact of the system to the greatest extent, mainly because of the quite relevant distance between Company A and its customers. Conversely, emissions due to the purchase of new assets contribute to the total environmental impact of the system to a very limited extent. Because the analysis is grounded on a real CLSC, the results are expected to provide practical indications to logistics and supply chain managers, to minimize the environmental performance of the system.

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“…As today's consumers are more and more concerned with the environmental impacts of products and services they buy, enterprises have been more and more concerned with ''green operations'' because the rapid increase of the industrial activities and uncontrolled consumption of natural resources cause environmental problems (Alfonso-Lizarazo, et al 2013, Akdoğan et Coşkun, 2012. According to Lopes (200 9), the logistics management activities cannot be limited by only direct flow but also need to consider activities which involves reverse logistics flow.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reverse Logistics: The Portuguese Companies' Perspective

Gonçalves¹,

Silva²

2016

Braz. J. of Operations & Production Manag.

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The Reverse Logistics has been object of great interest by the whole community. In Portugal, Reverse Logistics is an unfamiliar word in the business world. Due to this fact, it will be interesting to analyze and characterize the Portuguese companies' perspective based on three aspects: The Concept, the Returns and the Environment. For this, semi structured interviews were applied to ten Portuguese companies of different dimensions and industrial sectors. The results showed that all the large companies are aware of Reverse Logistics. The product returns strategies are reuse, sale to the scrap or recycling industries and the environment strategies mostly used by small and medium-size enterprise's (besides waste recycling) are their reuse in the packaging of loads, and by large companies is directed towards recycling, planning routes and the use of recycled materials and reusable packaging. It is understood that, a lot of work in Reverse Logistics is still needed in the context, concerning the companies' awareness to know all their logistics chain (forward and reverse) and in spite of the small and medium-size enterprise's lack of knowledge of the this area, they practice some returns and environmental strategies, but still in a very incipient way.Keywords: Reverse Logistics; Multicases Study; Concept, Returns and Environment. ABSTRACTABEPRO

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Modeling reverse logistics process in the agro-industrial sector: The case of the palm oil supply chain

Cited by 57 publications

References 35 publications

Ranking of critical success factors in reverse logistics by TOPSIS

Ranking of critical success factors in reverse logistics by TOPSIS

Minimization of the Environmental Emissions of Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Case Study of Returnable Transport Assets Management

Reverse Logistics: The Portuguese Companies' Perspective

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