Taylor & Francis Pochampally, K: Strategic Planning Models for Reverse and Cl

Providing a foundation for new applications in supply chain management, this book addresses issues faced by strategic planners of reverse and closed-loop supply chains. These issues include the selection of economical products and potential secondhand markets as well as the evaluation of marketing strategies, production facilities, and recovery facilities. This book presents quantitative modeling techniques such as six sigma methodology, cost-benefit analysis, the Eigen vector method, linear physical programming, analytic hierarchy process, quality function deployment, fuzzy logic, goal programming, neural networks, and sensitivity analysis.