By Daoud Aït-Kadi, Marc Chouinard, Suzanne Marcotte, Diane Riopel
Traditional logistical chains have enabled us to reply successfully to the desires of shoppers by way of products and services. even though, the returns, rejects and by-products of those actions were eradicated or neglected. opposite logistics goals at valuing those items utilizing a cost construction community integrating restoration, processing, recycling, distribution or fresh removing techniques. within the context of sustainable improvement, integrating financial, social and environmental elements, those actions bring up questions in regards to the layout of goods, methods and logistic networks. Taking those concerns into consideration contains major adjustments that have an effect on enterprise versions in addition to customer conduct. New operating tools and a long term imaginative and prescient are the hot bases for sustainable logistic networks.
The goal of this booklet is to provide a tutorial instrument for engineering faculties, in addition to a administration instrument for the effective implementation of the opposite logistics functionality. It brings jointly the information obtained by means of the clinical neighborhood. no matter if opposite logistics has been the topic of numerous books during the last few years, only a few theories were built and the topic is much from being exhausted. This publication proposes popular thoughts and approaches that may be tailored to all companies generating items and companies and which goal to combine opposite logistics. those methods will permit us to make clear their complexity and take into consideration all of the very important variables.
Contents
1. Logistics Challenge.
2. opposite Logistics Engineering.
3. Ecodesign.
4. worth Loops.
Content:
Chapter 1 Logistics demanding situations (pages 1–33):
Chapter 2 opposite Logistics Engineering (pages 35–88):
Chapter three Ecodesign (pages 89–127):
Chapter four worth Loops (pages 129–212):
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