This paper examines the feasibility and desirability of reverse logistics in profit-motivated contexts. It attempts to determine implications for various stakeholders in India for selected categories of products from “low volumes and growing markets” to “high volumes and declining...

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is the buzzword today after the quality revolution of the 1980s and the supply chain revolution of the 1990s. It is gaining justifiable popularity among society, governments and industry. In recent years a rapid increase of corporate initiatives and...

The purpose of this paper is to use a conceptual model from literature for designing value recovery (VR) networks for three categories of post-consumer product returns.A bi-level optimization model is developed to determine the disposition decision for refrigerators, washing machines and...

Collection and recycling of product returns is gaining interest in business and research worldwide. Growing green concerns and advancement of green supply chain management (GrSCM) concepts and practices make it all the more relevant. Inputs from literature and informal interviews with 84...