From closed-loop to sustainable supply chains: the WEEE case

Neto, Joao Quariguasi Frota; Walther, Grit; Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline; Nunen, J.A.E.E. van; Spengler, Thomas S.

doi:10.1080/00207540902906151

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“…They find that manufacturers may have more products returned than retailers or wholesalers or distributors. Our paper is consistent with the work of Quariguasi Frota Neto et al [30], where the objective of reverse supply chains is to improve the economic benefits from returned products. They also propose optimization models to ensure the sustainability of supply chains.…”

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Impacts of Returning Unsold Products in Retail Outsourcing Fashion Supply Chain: A Sustainability Analysis

Shen

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:Retail outsourcing with a return policy is quite commonly adopted in the fashion supply chain. Under the return policy, the supplier as a brand owner may focus on production, and then outsource retailing to the retailer. In the meanwhile, the retailer may receive some support money from the supplier for subsidizing the loss of unsold products at the end of the selling season and be asked for shipping back. Motivated by this real practice in the fashion industry, we examine a two-echelon supply chain with one supplier and one retailer under the return policy. Several interesting findings are obtained from our analysis. First, we find that when the supply chain achieves channel coordination, the cost of physical return is at least partially borne by the supplier, no matter who is responsible for it in reality. Second, we find that the cost of physical return is significantly affecting the sustainability factors such as the expected amount leftover (which represents environmental friendliness), the expected sales to expected goods leftover ratio (which implies both environmental friendliness and economic sustainability), and the rate of return on investment (which indicates economic sustainability). Third, from a sustainability perspective, we find that the pure wholesale price contract is more sustainable than the coordinating return policy. A numerical study by the real company data is conducted and managerial insights from analysis are discussed.

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Impacts of Returning Unsold Products in Retail Outsourcing Fashion Supply Chain: A Sustainability Analysis

Shen

2015

Sustainability

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“…The resource efficiency gains of reusing a product or part, for instance, depend on the processes needed to return a product to a suitable state or location, as well as on the use-phase impacts in a second life [65]. For products with high impact in the production phase and small impact in the use phase, life extension through reuse may indeed have the highest potential for resource efficiency gains [6,66]. For products with high use-phase impact, such as energy using products, life extension through reuse does not always have the highest potential for resource efficiency gains [65].…”

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Circular Business Models: Defining a Concept and Framing an Emerging Research Field

2017

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To aid companies in transitioning towards a circular economy and adopting strategies such as reuse, repair, and remanufacturing, the concept of circular business models has been developed. Although the concept draws on contributions from various academic disciplines, and despite its increasingly frequent use, few scholars clearly define what a circular business model is. Understanding about what makes a business model circular is diverse, hampering the theoretical development and practical application of circular business models. This study aims to help frame the field of circular business model research, by clarifying the fundamentals of the concept from the perspectives of resource efficiency and business model innovation. Expanding on these findings, a review of how the concept is used in recent academic literature is provided. It shows that a coherent view is lacking on which resource efficiency strategies classify a business model as circular. This study clarifies which resource efficiency strategies can be deemed as relevant key strategies for circular business models, and suggests a new definition of the concept. With the definition grounded in analysis of the fundamentals in terms of resource efficiency and business models, the study contributes to theoretical advancement and effective implementation of circular business models.

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“…During the last couple of decades, SSCM has been considered by organizations in various types of industries (Blome et al, 2014;Faisal, 2010;Huq et al, 2014;Quariguasi Frota Neto et al, 2010;Roehrich et al, 2014) with many special issues in high ranked journals and also conferences. In a most recent special issue called, Sustainable operations management: recent trends and future directions (Walker et al, 2014).…”

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“…Testing various hypotheses, it was concluded that coordinating with suppliers and customers in a sustainable manner is not possible without required capabilities inside an organization. Quariguasi Frota Neto et al (2010) investigated the possibilities of transiting from closed loop SCs to SCs. It was found that managers trying to move toward sustainable SCs first should take measures that can improve the sustainable performance more effectively through the critical life-cycle stages.…”

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Sustainable supplier performance scoring using audition check-list based fuzzy inference system: A case application in automotive spare part industry

Ghadimi

Dargi

Heavey

2017

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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With the global awareness of sustainability issues, sustainable development is being increasingly recognized by governments and industries. In addressing these issues, organizations worldwide have taken initiatives in adopting sustainability practices in their supply chain transferring it to sustainable supply chain management. In order to establish a responsible sustainable supply chain management, an effective way would be to make sure that the potential suppliers for procuring required components are precisely assessed and evaluated based on sustainable criteria. Therefore, this paper proposes a practical decision making approach to evaluate and select the most sustainable suppliers for an automotive spare part manufacturer licensed under a France-based automotive organization. Firstly, a requirement gathering approach, the audition check-list approach, is designed to facilitate the process of data gathering for supplier evaluation based on three pillars of sustainability. Next, the gathered data are processed using a proposed fuzzy inference system to remove impreciseness and vagueness in the gathered sustainability related data. The strength of this model falls into its applicability in data gathering phase which helps decision makers in manufacturing company to perform a fast audition of a typical supplier. Secondly, the final sustainable ranking of suppliers using the proposed fuzzy inference system provide a precise and less uncertain sustainability performance scoring which makes the developed approach a reliable system for making sustainable sourcing decisions. Comparison and sensitivity analysis are performed to evaluate the proficiency of the developed approach. Finally, theoretical and managerial implications together with conclusions of the study are presented.

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From closed-loop to sustainable supply chains: the WEEE case

Cited by 172 publications

References 44 publications

Impacts of Returning Unsold Products in Retail Outsourcing Fashion Supply Chain: A Sustainability Analysis

Impacts of Returning Unsold Products in Retail Outsourcing Fashion Supply Chain: A Sustainability Analysis

Circular Business Models: Defining a Concept and Framing an Emerging Research Field

Sustainable supplier performance scoring using audition check-list based fuzzy inference system: A case application in automotive spare part industry

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