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The Role of Transport in Reverse Distribution Chains
Mohd. R. Shaharudin1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 15
First Page: 256
Last Page: 259
Publisher ID: TOTJ-15-256
DOI: 10.2174/1874447802115010256
Article History:
Received Date: 20/5/2021Revision Received Date: 2/9/2021
Acceptance Date: 28/9/2021
Electronic publication date: 20/12/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Reverse distribution operations have become significant to the manufacturers in supporting the firms to achieve the circularity of products in the reverse flow chains. There are four main components of the reverse distribution chains; inbound and outbound transportation, collection of returns, centralised returns centres, and recovery process. Transport is essential by reducing the lead time and transportation cost of the used and the recovered products. Therefore, it is pertinent that the manufacturers continue endeavouring for the sustainable transportation process in each of the components to ensure the success of the reverse distribution chains.