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A Business-Mapping Approach To Multi-Criteria Group Selection Of Collection Centers And Recovery Facilities, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta
A Business-Mapping Approach To Multi-Criteria Group Selection Of Collection Centers And Recovery Facilities, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta
Surendra M. Gupta
For a prospective reverse supply chain to operate efficiently, the designing of that chain must involve selection of collection centers and recovery facilities that have sufficient success potentials. These success potentials depend heavily on the participation (in the reverse supply chain) of three important groups that have multiple, conflicting, and incommensurate goals. Therefore, the potentials must be evaluated based on the maximized consensus among the three groups, viz., (i) Consumers whose primary concern is convenience, (ii) Local government officials whose primary concern is environmental consciousness, and (iii) Supply chain company executives whose primary concern is profit. In this paper, we …
A Multi-Phase Mathematical Programming Approach To Strategic Planning Of An Efficient Reverse Supply Chain Network, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta
A Multi-Phase Mathematical Programming Approach To Strategic Planning Of An Efficient Reverse Supply Chain Network, Kishore Pochampally, Surendra Gupta
Surendra M. Gupta
Strategic planning of a supply chain network is one of the most challenging aspects of reverse logistics. To effectively satisfy drivers such as profitability, environmental regulations and asset recovery, only the most economical used products must be reprocessed in only the recovery facilities that have the potential to efficiently reprocess them. Due to uncertainties in supply, quality and reprocessing times of used-products, the cost-benefit function in the literature that selects the most economical product to reprocess from a set of used-products is not appropriate for direct adoption. Moreover, due to the same uncertainties, any traditional forward supply chain approach to …
System Dynamics Approach In Inventory Management Of End-Of-Life Products In A Disassembly Line, Badr Johar, Surendra Gupta
System Dynamics Approach In Inventory Management Of End-Of-Life Products In A Disassembly Line, Badr Johar, Surendra Gupta
Surendra M. Gupta
A major challenge original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) currently face is how to implement an effective reverse supply chain network that is both cost effective and efficient. The rapid increase in the end-of-life (EOL) products returns from end customers back to origin for recovery or proper disposal can be said one of the main reasons behind this interest. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between all elements of inventory management in the disassembly context using the system dynamic modeling approach to analyze the inventory of disassembled parts. Analysis of different market scenarios is conducted. The system …