Abstract
Many a supply chain today is involved in reprocessing of used products, which requires a series of activities that are performed by multiple parties, viz., collection centers, recovery facilities, etc. Such a supply chain is called reverse supply chain. In this paper, we propose a three-phase approach for the selection of efficient collection centers in a region where a reverse supply chain is to be designed. The first phase identifies the selection criteria, the second phase uses the eigen vector method to give relative weights to the selection criteria, and the third phase uses the Taguchi loss function to select efficient collection centers.
Keywords
End of life products, Collection facilities, Taguchi loss functions
Subject Categories
Recycling (Waste (etc.))
Disciplines
Engineering
Publisher
Omnipress
Publication Date
2008
Rights Information
Copyright 2008, Surendra M. Gupta
Rights Holder
Gupta M. Surendra
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Recommended Citation
Gupta, Surendra M. and Pochampally, Kishore K., "A Taguchi loss approach to selection of collection centers for reverse supply chain design" (2008). . Paper 15. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d10013647
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Notes
Originally published in the Proceedings of the 2008 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Brooklyn, New York, March 28-30, 2008 (CD-ROM)