Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains

Download or read book Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains written by Simme D.P. Flapper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.