A Study on the Design of Reverse Logistics Network

摘要

Reverse logistics is a process that deals with the returned goods. In the first section of the paper, it gives a brief account of the driving factors to develop reverse logistics. Whether the reverse logistics is efficient or not depends on the network design. In the second section, several works about network design in the reverse logistics in literature are introduced. In the third section, it deals with the network optimization in reverse logistics. A model is given on the basis of the capacitated plant location problem, the total cost which involve in the transport cost, center investment, redistribution cost and circumstance cost get to minimum, and maximize the benefit in reverse logistics. Meanwhile, scale economy in the center invest is taken into account. At last the paper closes with on outline of the future perspectives of networks in reverse logistics.