Logistics network design to reuse second-hand household appliances for charities

Sadrnia, Abdolhossein; Langarudi, Najme Roghani; Sani, Amirreza Payandeh

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118717

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“…Thus, it is essential to explore the donation flows to track how charity shops deal with donations from the collection stage to the operation stage (Figure 1). Charity shops lack a conventional forward supply chain, their supply chain is more related to the reverse supply chain (Sadrnia et al , 2020).…”

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“…The last stage is the operation stage, which involves the process of distribution and sale. The scrap or end-of-life product could be used for manufacturing another different product, which created new opportunities for business and research (Sadrnia et al , 2020; Fu et al , 2021). Hence, companies need to decide whether there is a need to create a new market or demand for remanufactured products or upcycled products (Beh et al , 2016; Nikolaidis, 2013).…”

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Exploring the barriers that influence intention to donate and role of the charity shop within the multi-tier supply chain

Guo

2021

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PurposeHumanitarian relief organisations such as charities count on donations to provide assistance to people in need when disasters occur. In the UK, about 11,200 charity shops collect second-hand goods from donors to raise funds for their parent charity to support target beneficiaries. As their numbers increase, charity shops are finding it difficult to secure good quality stock. Furthermore, they may need to plan ahead to secure sufficient stock when the economy experiences a downturn. This paper identifies the charity shop's role and its donation flow in the multi-tier supply chain and empirically assesses the barriers that influence intention to donate with a mixed-methods approach.Design/methodology/approachIn order to explore the charity shop's role within the multi-tier supply chain, this study begins with a literature review and then develops a conceptual model. In order to empirically evaluate the barriers that influence intention to donate, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 charity shop managers and collected 222 usable questionnaires from donors. The interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach was applied to examine the interrelationship among barriers and rank their priority.FindingsThis paper identifies ten significant barriers that influence intention to donate: lack of good quality items for donation; lack of information on how charity shops make use of donations; lack of familiarity with the donation process; lack of information of what items can be accepted by charity shops; lack of awareness of the impact that donations make; the difficulty of being available at the scheduled times for charity shops' free pick-up services; the difficulty of donating during shops' opening hours; the difficulty of finding parking to access charity shops; and living too far away from charity shops. In particular, the questionnaires' results indicate that lack of good quality items is the most significant barrier. This is also reflected in the ISM model, and thus needs more attention.Practical implicationsThe results are very useful for charity shops themselves to understand current barriers to securing good quality stock and to develop potential stock-securing interventions based on these barriers' priority.Originality/valueAlthough charity shops have been investigated by several researchers, their supply chain remains insufficiently explored. This paper fills this gap by identifying the charity shop's role and its donation flow in the supply chain and by empirically assessing the supply-side barriers with a mixed-methods approach.

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Exploring the barriers that influence intention to donate and role of the charity shop within the multi-tier supply chain

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2021

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“…Mohtashami, Aghsami, and Jolai (2020) studied a green supply chain with a reverse logistic in which the collected products are categorized into repairable, reusable, recyclable and waste products. Sadrnia, Roghani, and Payandeh (2020) addressed a reverse logistic network for the waste of household applications. They formulated a mathematical problem to minimize the total cost of the reverse network.…”

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An integrated multi-stage vehicle routing and mixed-model job-shop-type robotic disassembly sequence scheduling problem for e-waste management system

Malekkhouyan¹,

Aghsami

Rabbani

2021

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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The rapid development of technology has reduced the longevity of electronic products; this can be led to increase generation of electronic and electrical waste worldwide. The protection of the environment and the optimum use of non-renewable resources should be our priority in today's world. Therefore, e-waste management involves two crucial processes of the collection and recovery of e-waste that ought to be considered in an e-waste management. Thus, this paper presents a new integrated multi-stage model for a comprehensive e-waste management system in three levels of vehicle routing, disassembly sequence scheduling, and allocation of vehicles for transporting components. This model minimizes three objectives of total costs of collocation and transportation, total pollution emissions by trucks and vehicles, and carbon footprint by robots, and the total cost of disassembling products simultaneously. Moreover, our study is novel in some aspects such as integrated decisions related to vehicle routing and disassembly sequence scheduling, compatible truck for collecting e-waste, mixed-model disassembly by robots, and job-shoptype disassembly layout. Afterwards, several numerical examples are presented in different scales to examine the model's efficiency. An exact and meta-heuristic method are applied to solve the model. Finally, by changing some parameters, the useful sensitivity analysis is presented.

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“…The term waste has been explained as anything which does not possess any further utility for the owner and needs to be thrown away [4]. The general household waste comprised several things including paper and glass, etc., which can easily be recycled; however, other materials like plastics are difficult to recycle and are one of the major factors of environment pollution which could take years to decompose [5,6].…”

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A pathway to involve consumers for exchanging electronic waste: a deep learning integration of structural equation modelling and artificial neural network

Najmi

Kanapathy

Aziz

2021

J Mater Cycles Waste Manag

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Logistics network design to reuse second-hand household appliances for charities

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Exploring the barriers that influence intention to donate and role of the charity shop within the multi-tier supply chain

Exploring the barriers that influence intention to donate and role of the charity shop within the multi-tier supply chain

An integrated multi-stage vehicle routing and mixed-model job-shop-type robotic disassembly sequence scheduling problem for e-waste management system

A pathway to involve consumers for exchanging electronic waste: a deep learning integration of structural equation modelling and artificial neural network

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