A heuristic approach to logistics network design for end-of-lease computer products recovery

Der-Horng Lee and Meng Dong

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2008, vol. 44, issue 3, 455-474

Abstract: This paper discusses the logistics network design for end-of-lease computer products recovery by developing a deterministic programming model for systematically managing forward and reverse logistics flows. Due to the complexity of such network design problem, a two-stage heuristic approach is developed to decompose the integrated design of the distribution networks into a location-allocation problem and a revised network flow problem. The applicability of the proposed method is illustrated in a numerical study. Computational experiments demonstrate that high-quality solutions are obtained while modest computational overheads are incurred.

Keywords: Reverse; logistics; Product; recovery; Location-allocation; Tabu; search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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