Closed loop supply chains - A study of US and Japanese car industries

Human Systems Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-70

  Kumar, Sameer ^a   Yamaoka, Teruyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed loop supply chain; End of life vehicle regulation; Japanese car recycling law; Re use; Recycle; Reverse logistics; Reverse supply chain; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP SUPPLY CHAIN; REVERSE LOGISTICS; REVERSE SUPPLY CHAIN; SYSTEM DYNAMICS (SD);

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEHICLES;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644747372     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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