The impact of control strategies on the management of returnable transport items

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1128-1139

  Hellström, Daniel ^a   Johansson, Ola ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Closed loop supply chain; Materials management; Packaging; Returnable; Reverse logistics; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; LOGISTICS; OPERATING COSTS; PACKAGING MATERIALS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

CLOSED-LOOP; CLOSED-LOOP SUPPLY CHAIN; CONTROL STRATEGIES; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; RETURNABLE; REVERSE LOGISTICS; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION-BASED METHOD; TRACKING; TRACKING SYSTEM;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; INVESTMENT; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRACKING; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 77954309475     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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