Reverse logistics
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2013
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Pakistan Academy of Sciences
Abstract
This paper presents framework of reverse logistics optimizing the stakeholders’ gain, social gain,
economic gain and environmental gain. It identifies the roadblocks that prevail in recycling industry and
describes various types of returns and wastes. Framework of the reverse logistics is evolved on the basis of
actual happening of the items shown in table 1-4 disposed off from industries shown in table 6. The rejected
items require environmental disposal passing through the different phases described in flow of operational
framework. An operational framework of reverse logistics is developed studying fifty organizations.. In addition
three best practices of reverse logistics are proposed by consolidating the experiential information and
rich hands on industrial experience in supply chain and reverse logistics area. The research has proposed
the Social, Stakeholder, Economic & Environmental (SSEE) sustained gain model optimizing the benefits
of stakeholders and highlights the variety of waste and its operational methodology in Pakistani industry.
The proposed framework does not include the hospital waste, radioactive waste, hazardous materials waste,
municipal waste, agricultural waste and cold chain waste like meat, milk, etc.The operational framework is
existing way of doing that takes the waste materials from point of origin to the point of recycling. A better
understanding of this framework may help researchers and front line managers to develop better, more accurate
models for effective and sustainable utilization of waste materials, benefiting organizations and society
by simultaneously enhancing the cost effectiveness and improving environmental awareness. The paper
provides an operational framework of reverse logistics and 2S2E sustained gain model. Specific applications
are examined through empirical research.
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Reverse Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Operational Framework, Recycling
Citation
Yusuf, I., & Raouf, A. (2013). Reverse Logistics: an empirical study for operational framework Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.