Reverse Logistics
Phillip Ranck
Dr Kandis Wyatt
RLMT500: Reverse Logistics Management
American Military University

Introduction
With reverse logistics being an integral aspect to a company’s effective and efficient transportation process, it is imperative that a standardized program is implemented. To develop a program that meets all the demands required of a reverse logistics process has proved difficult. As the economy grows, so does the need for company’s demand to produce products. Part of a company’s role in producing a product is also developing and implementing a reverse logistical plan. Reverse logistics has become a popular topic, regardless of the product or type of industry. It is so important that companies and industries have been employing the reverse activity of product flow along supply chains within their business processes. The importance of implementing a well developed reverse logistical program is proving to be extremely important in companies or industries overall efficiency and effectiveness.
Reverse Logistics
With reverse logistics being an integral aspect to a company’s effective and efficient products’ profits, it is imperative that a standardized program that maximizes profits is implemented. The difficulty in producing a standardized program is that each company, industry, technology, and product varies immensely. Meeting each and all the varied demands required has proved difficult of a reverse logistics process. This is challenging companies and industries to use their own information to develop and implement a reverse logistics program that will be most profitable. To help support the proposed topic of study, an extensive literature review was conducted. . Below are a number of very different research studies that also support the difficulty in developing a reverse logistical process that will capitalize on maximizing