Quantitative Models for Reverse Logistics

Quantitative Models for Reverse Logistics by Moritz Fleischmann.

Economic, marketing, and legislative considerations are increasingly leading companies to take back and recover their products after use. From a logistics perspective, these initiatives give rise to new goods flows from the user back to the producer. The management of these goods flows opposite to t...

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Main Author: Fleischmann, Moritz (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 501
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Industrial engineering.
Production engineering.
Production management.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Reverse Logistics: An Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Reverse Logistics at IBM: An Illustrative Case
  • 3. Structuring the Field
  • II. Reverse Logistics: Distribution Management Issues
  • 4. Product Recovery Networks
  • 5. A Facility Location Model for Recovery Network Design
  • Conclusions of Part II
  • III. Reverse Logistics: Inventory Management Issues
  • 6. Inventory Systems with Reverse Logistics
  • 7. Impact of Inbound Flows
  • 8. Impact of Multiple Sources
  • Conclusions of Part III
  • IV. Reverse Logistics: Lessons Learned
  • 9. Integration of Product Recovery into Spare Parts Management at IBM
  • 10. Conclusions
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • References.

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