- Healthcare Supply Chains
- Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Transparency
- Supply Chain Management and Gender: Challenges for a Changing World
- Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Human Resource Management in an Industry 4.0 Era: A Supply Chain Management Perspective
- Artificial Intelligence in the Supply Chain: A Classification Framework and Critical Analysis of the Current State
- Emerging Technologies in Supply Management
- Organizing and Managing Data Analytics Teams for Procurement
- Organizational and Temporal Shifts in Procurement Analytics: Implications for Research
- Use of Blockchain Partnerships to Enable Transparency in Supply Chain Digitization
- Procurement Analytics: Enabling Data Architectures in the Age of Big Data
- Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Procurement’s Role in Securing the Network
- Logistics in Emerging Markets
- Sustainable Food Logistics Systems
- Reverse Logistics: What It Is and Where It Is Headed
- Digitalization and Omnichannel Retailing
- Supply Chain Distribution Strategy
- Supply Chain Structure and Competitor Relationship
- Strategic Cost Management in the Supply Chain
- Startup Suppliers on the Rise: Insights into the Management of Asymmetric Buyer–Supplier Relationships
- The Decision Process of Contracting in Supply Chain Management
- Managing and Repairing Supply Chains upon Disruptions
- Within-Organizational Structures and Roots of the Buyer–Supplier Relationship
- Supply Network Drivers of Risk and Performance
- How to Manage Performance-Based Contracting: Combining the Supply Architecture Model with a Buyer–Suppler Relationship Perspective
- Mitigating Shirking: Contracting Performance in Buyer-Initiated Service Triads
- Research on Contracting in Supply Chain Management and Related Disciplines: A Synthesis of Scholarly Recommendations and a Discussion of Future Opportunities
- Supplier Development at LG Electronics: Enhancing the Stability, Sustainability, and Competitiveness of the Supply Base
- More Sustainable Supply Chains: Is the Journey More Important Than the Destination?
- Innovation in Buyer–Supplier Relationships: A Review of Relationship Characteristics and Directions for Future Research
- Supply Chain Financing: Moving beyond Source, Make, and Deliver
- Buyer–Supplier Relationships and Embeddedness: Outcome Duality in the Dyad
- Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Meta-analysis of Past Research and Future Directions
- Protecting Brand Value through Anticounterfeiting Supply Chain Strategies
Abstract and Keywords
As more companies are engaging in reverse logistics activities, it is imperative to develop a better understanding of this important concept. This chapter covers fundamental issues related to reverse logistics. After introducing a definition of reverse logistics, a discussion is provided on its importance and contrasts with forward logistics. Returns reduction, closed-loop supply chain, and circular economy are identified as important topics related to reverse logistics. Examples are then used to explain the economic value recovery as well as the strategic and operational value of reverse logistics. After delineating the key processes in reverse logistics, this chapter identifies reverse logistics challenges and best practices. Last, the status of reverse logistics research is discussed along with a list of future research topics.
Keywords: reverse logistics, product returns, value recovery, reverse logistics processes, reverse logistics challenges, reverse logistics best practices
Iowa State University
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- Healthcare Supply Chains
- Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Transparency
- Supply Chain Management and Gender: Challenges for a Changing World
- Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Human Resource Management in an Industry 4.0 Era: A Supply Chain Management Perspective
- Artificial Intelligence in the Supply Chain: A Classification Framework and Critical Analysis of the Current State
- Emerging Technologies in Supply Management
- Organizing and Managing Data Analytics Teams for Procurement
- Organizational and Temporal Shifts in Procurement Analytics: Implications for Research
- Use of Blockchain Partnerships to Enable Transparency in Supply Chain Digitization
- Procurement Analytics: Enabling Data Architectures in the Age of Big Data
- Supply Chain Cybersecurity: Procurement’s Role in Securing the Network
- Logistics in Emerging Markets
- Sustainable Food Logistics Systems
- Reverse Logistics: What It Is and Where It Is Headed
- Digitalization and Omnichannel Retailing
- Supply Chain Distribution Strategy
- Supply Chain Structure and Competitor Relationship
- Strategic Cost Management in the Supply Chain
- Startup Suppliers on the Rise: Insights into the Management of Asymmetric Buyer–Supplier Relationships
- The Decision Process of Contracting in Supply Chain Management
- Managing and Repairing Supply Chains upon Disruptions
- Within-Organizational Structures and Roots of the Buyer–Supplier Relationship
- Supply Network Drivers of Risk and Performance
- How to Manage Performance-Based Contracting: Combining the Supply Architecture Model with a Buyer–Suppler Relationship Perspective
- Mitigating Shirking: Contracting Performance in Buyer-Initiated Service Triads
- Research on Contracting in Supply Chain Management and Related Disciplines: A Synthesis of Scholarly Recommendations and a Discussion of Future Opportunities
- Supplier Development at LG Electronics: Enhancing the Stability, Sustainability, and Competitiveness of the Supply Base
- More Sustainable Supply Chains: Is the Journey More Important Than the Destination?
- Innovation in Buyer–Supplier Relationships: A Review of Relationship Characteristics and Directions for Future Research
- Supply Chain Financing: Moving beyond Source, Make, and Deliver
- Buyer–Supplier Relationships and Embeddedness: Outcome Duality in the Dyad
- Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Meta-analysis of Past Research and Future Directions
- Protecting Brand Value through Anticounterfeiting Supply Chain Strategies
