Question

Impact of product characteristics on logistics

Answer 1

Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concern. Efficient implementation requires appropriate logistics structures to be set up for the arising goods flow from users to producers. They investigate the design of such logistics networks. As a basis for our analysis they review recent case studies on logistics network design for product recovery in different industries. They identify general characteristics of product recovery networks and compare them with traditional logistics structures. Moreover, they derive a classification scheme for different types of recovery networks.