Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains
Author | : Simme D.P. Flapper |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2006-03-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783540272519 |
ISBN-13 | : 3540272518 |
Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Closed-Loop Supply Chains (CLSC) offer companies a unique opportunity to improve their profits whilst serving societal responsibility. The management of CLSC differs in a number of ways from managing supply chains in general. The book examines these differences and how these differences may be dealt with in practice, by offering a concrete framework, introducing the different aspects related to CLSC and their mutual relations, in a systematic logical way as well as cases clustered according to the inputs for a CLSC. The framework and especially the cases from successful companies offer the reader an invaluable help to build and improve CLSC.