THE CONCEPT OF REVERSE LOGISTICS. A REVIEW OF LITERATURE1 Isabel Fernández Quesada2 ABSTRACT This paper aims at providing a review of Reverse Logistics concept from a broad set of articles, published mainly in the last decade. From their reading, the author has detected the lack of a desirable largely accepted consensus on what constitutes Reverse Logistics, either on what the range of activities should be included within its scope or how to denominate each of its options in a not fuzzy way.
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Material Flow Improvement By Léo Belime Diploma work No. 35/2010 At Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Göteborg, Sweden Diploma work in the Master in Production Engineering Program Performed at: Société des Ateliers Louis Vuitton Supervisor(s): Florence Laprade Société des Ateliers Louis Vuitton 36100 Issoudun - France Peter Almström Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg
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impacts of it on the organization. A wide variety of information sources will be used for this project work, however the primary source of information and data will be provided in PZ Cussons, 2010 Annual Report (PZ Cussons, 2010a) and from interviews with staff from PZ Cussons Ghana (Awotwe, E. and Amofa, B., 2011). Other materials will be employed such as books, internet sources, journal articles, media articles, and interviews, these sources will be used to support the discussion and assist in arriving
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Supply Chain Network Analysis and Design: Location Analysis PROC 5820 7 May 2014 Summary The principal thesis of this paper is to discuss location analysis and its role in supply chain network analysis and design. The emphasis of site location is of strategic importance to all organizations seeking to maximize profits and minimize costs. The logistics/supply chain network design has six major planning steps in the process of designing a comprehensive
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Internship Report On “Operational Activities of Supply Chain Department at Nestlé Bangladesh Limited” 1 Internship Report on “Operational Activities of Supply Chain Department at Nestlé Bangladesh Limited” Supervised by Mr. Mohammad Rezaur Razzak Associate Professor BRAC Business School BRAC University Prepared By Nahid Islam ID-09104050 BRAC Business School BRAC University Date of Submission September 07, 2014 2 Letter of Transmittal:
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What is supply chain management? [ A German paper factory receives its daily supply of 75 tons of recyclable paperas its raw material In the 1980s, the term Supply Chain Management (SCM) was developed[5] to express the need to integrate the key business processes, from end user through original suppliers. Original suppliers being those that provide products, services and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders. The basic idea behind the SCM is that companies and corporations
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Critique Introduction Supply Chain Management is the combined set of practices, policies and frameworks that represent the relationship and the working dynamics between manufacturing, supplier, wholesaler, retailers and other supporting entities like warehouses, distributors etc. that enables final goods and services to reach the customers in the desired quantities and at the desired time (Heizer and Render, 2014). There are many parts or sub-components of the supply chain gamut that makes organzation
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INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT With the fall of East European Socialist-Bloc and opening up of the Asian markets, the trade barriers began falling during the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990’s. This development lead to organizations having a supply chain, that criss-crossed the whole globe. The proliferation of trade agreements has thus changed the global business scenarios. The Integrated Supply Chain Management (ISCM) is now not only a problem
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INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENT R.K. Gupta* and Pravin Chandra** ABSTRACT With the fall of East European Socialist-Bloc and opening up of the Asian markets, the trade barriers began falling during the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990’s. This development lead to organizations having a supply chain, that criss-crossed the whole globe. The proliferation of trade agreements has thus changed the global business scenarios. The Integrated Supply Chain Management
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INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENT R.K. Gupta* and Pravin Chandra** ABSTRACT With the fall of East European Socialist-Bloc and opening up of the Asian markets, the trade barriers began falling during the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990’s. This development lead to organizations having a supply chain, that criss-crossed the whole globe. The proliferation of trade agreements has thus changed the global business scenarios. The Integrated Supply Chain Management
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