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Due to recent changing environmental requirements affecting supply chain operations. Managing product returns has received wide spread attention from both practitioner and academicians. This paper investigates the sustainable approaches leading to the development of an integrated flexible reverse logistics system. In order to develop sustainable process as a competitive initiative, various approaches have been proposed; including the calculation of ecological impact factor i.e. Green Impact Factor GIF for reverse logistics system. Finally, case example is shown to highlight the procedure of the proposed method at the end of this paper. This case example illustrate that the proposed model is very well suited as a flexible and sustainable process selection decisions in reverse logistics system.
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Jitendra Madaan is currently working towards his Ph.D as a full time research student at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. His research domain is related to the study of Simulation and Flexibility in the context of Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Systems. He has several publications in Journals and International Conferences.. Besides being a researcher, he has active system modeling development interest and has developed several computer simulation models for studying discrete event dynamic systems. His professional and research interests include simulation models, reverse logistics, flexibility, and supply chain systems.
Subhash Wadhwa (Eur.Ing., C.Eng.,Ph.D (Ireland)) worked in Europe for several years on prestigious European projects and a US Multinational before joining IIT Delhi. He extensively contributed to the development of generic simulators and expert systems for flexible systems. He is currently a permanent Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is an active contributor to Global projects in the IT domain and has coordinated several workshops. He has been consultant / Contributor/National-Expert to many prestigious International bodies. He has over 200 publications and has reviewed papers for renowned journals. He has also been chief consultant on several Industrial projects. His interest include Flexible Systems, SCM, TQM, BPR, Knowledge Management, Simulation, Intelligent Systems, e-Biz/ e-Governance /e-education/e-health care etc. He is dedicated to the goal of bringing synergy between academics, industry and research.
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Madaan, J., Wadhwa, S. Flexible Process Planning Approaches for Sustainable Decisions in Reverse Logistics System. Global J. Flexible Syst. Manage. 8, 1–8 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03396528
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