Quality management in reverse logistics a broad look on quality issues and their interaction with closed-loop supply chains /
The concepts of Quality Management (QM) have been used for a long time by manufacturing companies to ensure customers receive a constant and high quality level of products. But what happens with remanufactured or refurbished products? Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality...
| Other Authors: | Nikolaïdēs, Iōannēs N., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Springer,
2013.
London ; New York : 2013. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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| Summary: |
The concepts of Quality Management (QM) have been used for a long time by manufacturing companies to ensure customers receive a constant and high quality level of products. But what happens with remanufactured or refurbished products? Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains discusses the new, promising area of QM and Reverse Logistics interaction. More specifically, it examines and evaluates a number of QM tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process. Modeling and quantitative methods that can be used by students, practitioners and academics in the Reverse Logistics industry are described. The readers will broaden their scope of thinking in the area of Reverse Logistics, where Quality Management can be applied. |
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Reverse Logistics and QualityManagement Issues: State-of-the-Art / Yiannis Nikolaidis -- A Quality Framework in Closed Loop Supply Chains: Opportunities for Value Creation / Umut Çorbacıoğlu and Erwin A. van der Laan -- Standardization of the Reverse Logistics Process: Characteristics and Added Value / André Pirlet -- A Framework for Evaluating the Social Responsibility Quality of Reverse Logistics / Ioannis E. Nikolaou and Konstantinos I. Evangelinos -- Quality Assurance and Consumer Electronics Recycling / Robert Sroufe -- Quality Assurance in Remanufacturing with Sensor Embedded Products / Onder Ondemir and Surendra M. Gupta -- An RFID Integrated Quality Management System for Reverse Logistics Networks / Anjali Awasthi and S.S. Chauhan -- Cases of Damage in Third-Party Logistics Businesses / Berrin Denizhan and K. Alper Konuk. The concepts of Quality Management (QM) have been used for a long time by manufacturing companies to ensure customers receive a constant and high quality level of products. But what happens with remanufactured or refurbished products? Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains discusses the new, promising area of QM and Reverse Logistics interaction. More specifically, it examines and evaluates a number of QM tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process. Modeling and quantitative methods that can be used by students, practitioners and academics in the Reverse Logistics industry are described. The readers will broaden their scope of thinking in the area of Reverse Logistics, where Quality Management can be applied. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| ISBN: |
9781447145370 1447145372 |