Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains by Simme D.P. Flapper
Closed-Loop Supply Chains (CLSC) offer companies a unique opportunity to improve their profits whilstserving societal responsibility.The management of CLSCdiffers in a number of ways from managing supply chains in general. The book examines these differences and how these differences may be dealt with in practice, by offeringa concrete framework, introducing the different aspects related toCLSC and their mutual relations, in a systematic logical way as well as cases clustered according to the inputs for a CLSC. The framework and especially the cases from successful companies offer the reader an invaluable help to build and improve CLSC.