Abstract
The environmental impact has been a critical issue in supply chain network research. Handling it efficiently will help the firm reduce pollution and save cost. In order to improve the environmental effect on this supply chain network, recovery activity becomes a significant part in the reverse logistics network, due to complexity and heterogeneity. In a reverse logistics network, there are many decision problems to be taken into consideration such as facility location, capacity allocation, production planning and vehicle routing. Each of these problems can be categorized into three types of decision planning: strategic, tactical or operational, based on the time planning horizon. In this paper, we review the literature of supply chain network in an effort to achieve green through implementing reverse logistic practices, and classify the defined problems by the group of decision planning. In general, most of the literatures are focused on the strategic and tactical decision planning, only a few are operational-based. The objective of this paper is to analyze the decision planning being done in this area of research and provide future insights on how to design the reverse logistics network with different decision planning which will reflect the real life scenario.
Highlights
Chain is one of the active application areas in operational research and management science
In order to improve the environmental effect on this supply chain network, recovery activity becomes a significant part in the reverse logistics network, due to complexity and heterogeneity
We review the literature of supply chain network in an effort to achieve green through implementing reverse logistic practices, and classify the defined problems by the group of decision planning
Summary
Chain is one of the active application areas in operational research and management science. The origin for all activities is the predefined deterministic demand of the consumers, where the products are manufactured or transported only if requested by the subsequent members of the supply chain. In sustainable supply chain practices, all parties involved will conserve the natural resources for the generation to avoid the overconsumption of resources [3] It is a combination of economic and environmental issues, but it al Figure 1. Designing a robust network with efficient product flow management can handle the risks in the supply chain. The forward supply chain includes the activities of procurement, design, manufacture and distribution to consumer while reverse supply chain is related to process of inspecting, sorting, disassembly for the purposes of reuse, reprocessing and redesign.
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