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REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN: LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS

KHADILKAR, YOGESH SUDHIR, Mr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1098665167

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2004, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering : Industrial Engineering.
To respond to increasing competition, decreasing life cycle of products and manage the business in an effective manner more firms are now embracing the concept of Supply Chain to increase their overall rofitability. Reduced Life Cycle has increased the rate of products returns and product disposals. Companies have realized the value they could recover by remanufacturing or recycling the returned or disposed products. The tool to streamline and optimize this task of collecting the used products, refurbish them and finally sell it is Reverse Supply Chain. The paper starts by giving a background and definition of the Reverse Supply Chain. It enumerates the major issues involved in designing the reverse chain and the cost concentrations for implementing it. A comparison of the reverse chain with traditional forward chain points out their differences. A linear model has been formulated for a hypothetical case of reverse chain, which attempts to minimize the cost by considering the maximum number of collection and refurbishing sites, which should be open, and the cost of transporting the used products throughout the chain. As we are concerned with End of Life products, the concept of Greening the Supply Chain for creating environmentally safe chain has been introduced. A mass balance model has been formulated and used to compare two scenarios for used lead acid batteries viz. Refurbishing and Disposal. This mass balance equation could be used for comparing the feasibility of these two options with real time data.
Dr. RICHARD SHELL (Advisor)
89 p.
Engineering, Industrial
REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN; GREENING SUPPLY CHAIN; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS

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  • KHADILKAR, Y. S. (2004). REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN: LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1098665167

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • KHADILKAR, YOGESH. REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN: LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS. 2004. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1098665167.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • KHADILKAR, YOGESH. "REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN: LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1098665167

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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