A Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Decision Mechanism in the Electronic Sector

At present, online shopping is becoming increasingly popular. In particular, low-carbon products are becoming more favored as consumers' low-carbon awareness increases. Manufacturers sell their low-carbon products through e-commerce platforms. Thus, the manufacturer and the e-commerce platform form a low-carbon e-supply chain system. The manufacturer makes products with carbon emission reduction efforts, while the e-commerce platform provides a sales service. In this paper, we described models for a decentralized decision mode and a centralized decision mode in the low-carbon e-supply chain, and compare the decision results. Our findings show that the centralized decision mode has a better performance than the decentralized one, the ability of the e-supply chain to respond to consumers' preference for a low-carbon product has a direct effect on its operation, and the manufacturer's carbon emission reduction behavior will be a potential source for enterprises to gain more revenue. Further, we designed a coordination contract for them that can be accepted by both sides in the decentralized decision mode. We find that if the e-commerce platform can share the carbon emission reduction costs of the manufacturer, the performance of the e-supply chain will be greatly improved. A practical case study and numerical examples validate our analysis.

Section: Low-carbon Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision and Coordination in a Low-Carbon E-Supply Chain Considering the Manufacturer’s Carbon Emission Reduction Behavior

Han

Wang

2018

“…According to the power structure of the supply chain members, there are three kinds of supply chain structure, i.e., no channel leader (model N), manufacturer as channel leader (model M), and retailer as channel leader (model R). In the next section, we apply the differential game theory to solve the open-loop control strategy [29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Presence of a Powerful Retailer on Dynamic Collecting Closed-Loop Supply Chain From a Sustainable Innovation Perspective

Huang

Wang

et al. 2018

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In this study, the presence of a powerful retailer in the dynamic collecting closed-loop supply chain is considered. The supply chain consists of a manufacturer and a retailer who is responsible for the used-product collection. Specifically, we have considered three settings, that is, no channel leader, the manufacturer as the leader and the retailer as the leader. The steady equilibrium and the optimal control strategies are derived in different channel power structures utilizing the open-loop control strategy method. By the comparison of three models, we found that the system with manufacturer leading results in the lowest return rate in the three models. If the transfer price of the used-product is low, the presence of a power retailer would result in a higher return rate, which is beneficial for decreasing the market price for the consumers. When the transfer price is quite high, the scenario with no channel leader in the supply chain would result in a higher return rate. However, the numerical comparison results of the profit rate of the supply chain members indicate that both manufacturer and retailer prefer themselves to be the channel leader rather than the other channel member as the leader. This means that although the presence of a power retailer is beneficial for the collecting efficiency, it is not enough to increase the profit of the supply chain members. The manufacturer should transfer all unit cost savings to the retailer in the scenario of manufacturer leading and no one leading.

“…Because of the progress of science and technology driving the rapid development of the economy, the renewal of consumer products, especially consumer electronics, is getting faster and faster, and more waste products are eliminated and abandoned, which has produced a great burden on the environment [1,2]. Furthermore, with the continuous deepening of the green supply chain management concept, more and more enterprises are beginning to adopt reverse logistics and reverse supply chains to recycle used products to new ones [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Green Closed-Loop Supply Chain Coordination Mechanism Based on Third-Party Recycling

Qing-jun

et al. 2019

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Taking an environment-friendly green closed-loop supply chain as the research object, this work established a two-stage closed-loop supply chain game model. Considering the influence of the environmental protection input on the whole supply chain, there are different decisions among the participants in the supply chain, and the different choices will have impacts on the benefits of the whole supply chain when manufacturers select a closed-loop supply chain model of third-party recycling. Hence, this work compared and analyzed the impact of centralized decision-making and decentralized decision-making on the returns and pricing strategies of each participant. Finally, an optimized cooperative mechanism decision model considering a cost profit sharing contract was further designed. The model is conducive to obtaining the maximum profit value in centralized decision-making and avoids the negative impact of a "double marginal effect" on supply chain income in decentralized decision-making, and finally, improves the overall coordination and profit of a green closed-loop supply chain. The numerical examples are conducted to verify the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed models. This work provides a helpful decision support and guidance for enterprises and the government on the used products recycling decisions to better manage the green closed-loop supply chain. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5335 2 of 14Recellular's revenue in 2005 was $40 million and grew at double-digit rates. Xerox reutilizes and refurbishes the toner warehouse on its photocopying products for free, making the recovery rate reach 60%, which has indirectly expanded the market share and increased the enterprise profit.The green closed-loop supply chain achieves great work results in reducing energy usage, materials consumption, air and water pollution, and so on [6]. Because of its increasing importance, the green closed-loop supply chain has garnered substantial attention from businesses and academia. Studies on green closed-looped supply chains can be mainly classified into the following perspectives: supply chain network design [7,8], production planning and inventory management [9-11], coordination mechanism [12,13], channel management [14,15], and so on. Among them, the green closed-looped supply chain coordination mechanism is one of the most important issues, which has received great attention in both the forward and reverse flows of supply chains. For example, Swami and Shah [16] investigated the channel coordination mechanism between a single manufacturer and retailer in a green closed-loop supply chain. Qiang et al. [17] investigated the competition and coordination of a closed-loop supply chain with two suppliers, two manufacturers, and two retailers, where both new and remanufactured products are launched at the same time. Huang et al.[18] developed a coordination mechanism considering a creative quantity discount contract to cut down customer's false failure returns in a closed-loop supply chain. Although plenty of existing literat...