Varun Kumar S. G.

Panneerselvam R.

Abstract

In this paper a literature review of various problems concerned with the area of reverse logistics has been carried out. Reverse logistics form important domain in supply chain management. Because of growing global competition, increased concern towards green environment and legislations, business organizations of many countries are compelled to use reverse logisties as a part of their logistics support in bringing bac products which have been supplied to customers after sometime. Reverse logistics in brief is all about recycle, reduce and reuse of products. literature review, the problems are classified into facility location problem, logistics network problem, vehicle routing problem and other prob. Under each problem type, discussions are carried out based on type of models/algorithms used to solve that problem. At the end, directions for f research are presented.

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