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  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,475 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2011

Supply chain management and closed-loop supply chain management (CLSCM) have developed into established concepts in recent years. The related material cycles and product returns form an important part of all related processes with high potential for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,508 Views
14 Pages

Integrated Operational Model of Green Closed-Loop Supply Chain

  • Chui-Yu Chiu,
  • Chen-Yang Cheng and
  • Ting-Ying Wu

27 May 2021

Due to increasing environmental awareness, companies have started embracing the green supply chain concept to reduce waste of resources. Based on this increased awareness, an integrated green closed-loop supply chain has been developed, which integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Operation Management on Sustainable Development of Corporation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,081 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2014

Carbon subsidy is an important measure for the government to encourage enterprises to reduce carbon emission. This paper analyzes the impact of carbon subsidy on remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain (RCLSC). We explore the profits and the carbon...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,519 Views
24 Pages

19 August 2023

In the closed-loop supply chain system of component remanufacturing, new parts suppliers are likely to be affected by certain factors that lead to sudden increases in supply prices, and this sudden increase in new parts prices may trigger the chain c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
35,671 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Rent-Based Closed-Loop Supply Chain for Fashion Products

  • Zhi-Hua Hu,
  • Qing Li,
  • Xian-Juan Chen and
  • Yan-Feng Wang

16 October 2014

The textile and clothing industry generates much pollution and consumes a large amount of resources. Improper uses and disposal of clothing products make the problems much more severe. Fast fashion products shorten the valid lifecycle and generate mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Fashion Business Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
5,953 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2017

This paper aims to investigate the uncertainty factors that impact the collection strategy of a remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain. The basis of this type of supply chain is the collection of used products, without which the remanufacturing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,437 Views
13 Pages

Green Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network under the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Lily Poursoltan,
  • Seyed-Mohammad Seyed-Hosseini and
  • Armin Jabbarzadeh

21 August 2021

The closed-loop supply chain considers conceptually the possibility of reverse logistics with the use of recycling, remanufacturing and disposal centers. This study contributes for the first time a green closed-loop supply chain framework for the ven...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Effective Healthcare Logistics and COVID-19 Response)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
13,958 Views
29 Pages

7 February 2017

The concept of green supply chain management (GSCM) is still in its infancy and has been implemented only to a limited extent. Strategic orientation is an important factor affecting its implementation. No reliable and valid strategic orientation cons...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,343 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2022

As sustainable development becomes an important goal for all industries, the study of closed-loop supply chains has gradually become a priority. Most of the previous studies on closed-loop supply chains are based on simple and single market condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,315 Views
20 Pages

Closed-Loop Supply Chain Planning Model of Rare Metals

  • Dongmin Son,
  • Songi Kim,
  • Hyungbin Park and
  • Bongju Jeong

3 April 2018

Rare metals (RMs) are becoming increasingly important in high-tech industries associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, such as the electric vehicle (EV) and 3D printer industries. As the growth of these industries accelerates in the near fut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain System Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,942 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2020

Purpose: This article analyzes the value of information and coordination in a closed loop supply chain (CLSC) and discusses the benefits of a global or local optimization approach and the impact of uncertainty. Methodology: A theoretical dyadic close...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,699 Views
26 Pages

14 August 2019

The green supply chain (GSC) can effectively reduce the waste of resources and avoid environmental pollution. For a closed-loop supply chain network consisting of multiple manufacturers, multiple retailers, and multiple consumer and recycling markets...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,930 Views
29 Pages

Strategy Analysis of Recycling and Remanufacturing by Remanufacturers in Closed-Loop Supply Chain

  • Xiaofeng Long,
  • Tong Shu,
  • Shou Chen,
  • Shouyang Wang,
  • Kin Keung Lai and
  • Yan Yang

10 October 2017

The paper investigates interactions in a two-period closed-loop supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer and a single remanufacturer. In the context of recycling and remanufacturing by the remanufacturer, the manufacturer and remanufacturer c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,687 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2018

This study takes a sustainable closed-loop supply chain composed of one manufacturer and two price-competitive retailers as the object and considers the two-way risk aversion characteristics of manufacturers and retailers in examining the coordinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain System Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,742 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2023

In this paper, we aim to explore the operational performance of a green closed-loop supply chain under random events. A green closed-loop supply chain model based on generalized stochastic Petri nets (GSPN) is built using the Petri nets theory. Accor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
6,558 Views
14 Pages

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

  • Jiafu Su,
  • Chi Li,
  • Qingjun Zeng,
  • Jiaquan Yang and
  • Jie Zhang

27 September 2019

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, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Decisions and Risk Assessment in Sustainable Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,192 Views
18 Pages

24 May 2022

The dynamic optimization of the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) is a hot research topic. Members’ competitive behavior and product goodwill play an important role in the decision making of CLSC members. In this paper, a closed-loop supply chain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain Management and Mathematical Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
18,418 Views
30 Pages

9 December 2014

In recent decades, due to market growth and use of synthetic fiber, the fashion industry faces a rapid increase of CO2 emission throughout the production cycle and raises environmental issues in recovery processing. This study proposes a closed-loop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Fashion Business Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,387 Views
29 Pages

14 September 2019

The government plays a critical role in the promotion of recycling strategy among supply chain members. The purpose of this study is to investigate the optimal government policies on closed-loop supply chains and how these policies impact the market...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,555 Views
21 Pages

Design and Optimization of the Dual-Channel Closed Loop Supply Chain with E-Commerce

  • Essam Kaoud,
  • Mohammad A. M. Abdel-Aal,
  • Tatsuhiko Sakaguchi and
  • Naoki Uchiyama

3 December 2020

The depletion of natural resources and the degradation of the ecosystem have led many countries to adopt closed-loop supply activities in both their industrial and service sectors. With the widespread use of Internet technology, these aspects motivat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,013 Views
20 Pages

31 August 2022

As resource waste and environmental degradation become increasingly serious, closed-loop supply chains have attracted more and more attention from the public. How to effectively undertake corporate social responsibility (CSR) and alleviate the confli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Resource Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,794 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2022

Companies rely on formulating, implementing, and monitoring strategies in social, environmental and economic aspects to ensure that they achieve their goals and keep abreast of developments related to sustainability requirements. Therefore, our study...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Consumption and Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
13,595 Views
19 Pages

A Comprehensive Approach in Assessing the Performance of an Automobile Closed-Loop Supply Chain

  • Ezutah Udoncy Olugu,
  • Kuan Yew Wong and
  • Awaludin Mohamed Shaharoun

30 March 2010

The ecological issues arising from manufacturing operations have led to the focus on environmental sustainability in manufacturing. This can be addressed adequately using a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC). To attain an effective and efficient CLSC, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,885 Views
25 Pages

7 September 2021

The cooperative and competitive (i.e., co-opetition) behavior between retailers plays a significant role in the development of operations and marketing strategies in a supply chain. Specifically, retailers’ co-opetition relationship pivotally influen...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,077 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2023

The switching system model of a closed-loop supply chain with Markov jump parameters is established. The system is modeled as a switching system with Markov jump parameters, taking into account the uncertainties of the process and the inventory decay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Applications of New Optimization Methods and Intelligent Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,476 Views
20 Pages

A Location-Inventory Problem in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Secondary Market Consideration

  • Hao Guo,
  • Congdong Li,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Chunnan Zhang and
  • Mengmeng Lu

5 June 2018

To design sustainable supply chain systems in today’s business environment, this paper studies a location-inventory problem in a closed-loop supply chain by considering the sales of new and used products in the primary and secondary markets, re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain System Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,041 Views
15 Pages

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

  • Jiafu Su,
  • Chi Li,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Hui Lu,
  • Aijun Liu and
  • Quan Chen

23 April 2018

In a closed-loop supply chain for electronic products, the manufacturer’s priority is to enhance the residual value of the collected end-of-use product and decide whether to outsource this business to a retailer, a third-party service, or retai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,590 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2015

Environmental and social responsibilities have led many manufacturers to used products recovery. Meanwhile, many manufacturers nowadays sell products via indirect retailer channels and direct Internet channels. This paper models a dual-channel closed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business and Development II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,963 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2018

This paper investigates pricing and collecting decisions in a closed loop supply chain (CLSC) under different power configurations and dual competitions. If the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) could sell products directly and collect used produ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain System Design and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,202 Views
28 Pages

A Trade-off Analysis of Economic and Environmental Aspects of a Disruption Based Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network

  • Abdul Salam Khan,
  • Catalin Iulian Pruncu,
  • Razaullah Khan,
  • Khawar Naeem,
  • Abdul Ghaffar,
  • Pakeeza Ashraf and
  • Shah Room

29 August 2020

Closed-loop supply chain networks are gaining research popularity due to environmental, economic and social concerns. Such networks are primarily designed to overcome carbon footprints and to retrieve end of life products from customers. This study c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Social, Economic and Environmental Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,592 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2020

This study establishs a dual channel closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) model under a government–penalty mechanism (RPM) consisting a dual-channel manufacturer, a retailer, and the government. We consider a Stackelberg game between the manufacture...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,174 Views
31 Pages

The ever-increasing concerns of the growth in the volume of waste tires and new strict government legislations to reduce the environmental impact of the end-of-life (EOL) tires have increased interest among companies to design a sustainable and effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,072 Views
21 Pages

13 January 2023

At present, the recovery and disposal of decommissioned aircraft have not yet formed a complete system in China. In this paper, a two-channel closed-loop supply chain model composed of an aeronautical materials manufacturer, an aircraft manufacturer,...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,352 Views
18 Pages

2 July 2023

The used power batteries of new energy vehicles have become a combined issue of environmental pollution, resource scarcity, and economic sustainability. Power battery recycling is inevitably becoming the key link in the formation of the green closed-...

(This article belongs to the Topic Design Strategies for Battery Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles to Promote Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,986 Views
25 Pages

Application of Exact and Multi-Heuristic Approaches to a Sustainable Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Design

  • Abdul Salam Khan,
  • Qazi Salman Khalid,
  • Khawar Naeem,
  • Rafiq Ahmad,
  • Razaullah Khan,
  • Waqas Saleem and
  • Catalin Iulian Pruncu

24 February 2021

Closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) are gaining popularity due to their efficiency in addressing economic, environmental, and social concerns. An important point to ponder in the distribution of CLSC is that imperfect refrigeration and bad road conditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operational Research Tools for Solving Sustainable Engineering Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,443 Views
20 Pages

8 April 2022

A closed-loop supply chain operation is an effective way to improve the dual benefits of economy and environment. Inspired by the practice of closed-loop supply chain coordination, this paper attempts to investigate the supply chain operation strateg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,289 Views
34 Pages

8 October 2021

The increased awareness of environmental sustainability has led to increasing attention to closed loop supply chains (CLSC). The main objective of the CLSC is to capture values from end-of-life (EOL) products in a way that ensures a business to be ec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis on Real-Estate Marketing and Sustainable Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2025

This research analyzes optimal information-sharing (IS) mechanisms in online closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) systems. In contrast to offline supply chains, online retailers hold a significant informational edge over their upstream counterparts due to...

(This article belongs to the Section Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,798 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, a sustainable closed-loop supply chain problem is modelled in conditions of uncertainty. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the designed supply chain network seeks to deliver medical equipment to hospitals on time within a defined...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19’s Risk Management and Its Impact on the Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,524 Views
28 Pages

21 October 2022

This study investigates the effect of social preference on the recycling decision and coordination in an E-closed-loop supply chain (E-CLSC). Firstly, we set the dynamic E-CLSC game model including a manufacturer, an E-commerce platform (E-platform)...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,106 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2019

This paper investigates the optimal return control problem in a closed-loop supply chain consisted of one manufacturer, one retailer, and one third-party collector, in the presence of stochastic return disturbance and fairness concern of followers. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Business and Operational Models for the Management of Green and Sustainable City Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,925 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2018

The remanufacturing warranty strategy has become an effective mechanism for reducing consumer risk and stimulating market demand in closed-loop supply chain management. Based on the characteristics of consumers’ behavior of purchase decisions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tools, Methodologies and Techniques Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,448 Views
31 Pages

12 January 2018

Remanufacturing of returned products has been increasingly recognized in industries as an effective approach to face environmental responsibility, government regulations, and increased awareness of consumers. In this paper, we address a closed-loop s...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,466 Views
25 Pages

9 September 2022

Efficient and low-cost remanufacturing can be achieved through process innovation. Consequently, the question of whether government subsidies for remanufacturing process innovation will stimulate improvement in this area and thus affect the closed-lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,595 Views
17 Pages

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

  • Jackson Jinhong Mi,
  • Zongsheng Huang,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Guodong Li and
  • Jiangtao Wang

21 June 2018

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,923 Views
19 Pages

21 May 2024

With the rapid growth of the new energy vehicle market, efficient management of the closed-loop supply chain of power batteries has become an important issue. Effective closed-loop supply chain management is very critical, which is related to the eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,281 Views
19 Pages

Lead Acid Batteries (LABs) Closed-Loop Supply Chain: The Brazilian Case

  • Gabriela Scur,
  • Claudia Mattos,
  • Wilson Hilsdorf and
  • Marcelo Armelin

22 September 2022

In the circular economy, a closed-loop supply chain is essential to guarantee the logistics of raw materials to the correct destination of the end-of-life (EOL) product. This is magnified by hazardous products that can contaminate the environment, su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Battery Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,096 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2020

This paper studies a closed-loop supply chain that covers three key members: Manufacturer, new components supplier, and recycled-components supplier. Considering the power of each member in the chain, we use game theory to analyze the optimal decisio...

(This article belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,066 Views
13 Pages

12 September 2014

Remanufacturing is an effective means to realize energy saving and emission reduction. This paper develops an evolutionary game model with a two-echelon closed-loop supply chain to study evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) of manufacturers and retai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Fashion Business Operations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,088 Views
26 Pages

14 November 2019

The recycling and remanufacturing of e-waste is linked to a worldwide emphasis on the establishment and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility system (ERP), which has become an important problem in the process of cycling economy. Meanwhil...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

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