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Designing a Reverse Logistics Network for End-of-Life Vehicles Recovery

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2010

The environmental factors are receiving increasing attention in different life cycle stages of products. When a product reaches its End-Of-Life EOL stage, the management of its recovery process is affected by the environmental and also economical factors. Selecting efficient methods for the collection and recovery of EOL products has become an important issue. The European Union Directive 2000/53/EC extends the responsibility of the vehicle manufacturers to the postconsumer stage of the vehicle. In order to fulfill the requirements of this Directive and also efficient management of the whole recovery process, the conceptual framework of a reverse logistics network is presented. The distribution of new vehicles in an area and also collecting the End-of-Life Vehicles ELVs and their recovery are considered jointly. It is assumed that the new vehicles distributors are also responsible for collecting the ELVs. Then a mathematical model is developed which minimizes the costs of setting up the network and also the relevant transportation costs. Because of the complexity of the model, a solution methodology based on the genetic algorithm is designed which enables achieving good quality solutions in a reasonable algorithm run time.

A Literature Survey on Reverse Logistics of End of Life Vehicles

Southeast Europe Journal of Soft Computing

Today, recycling of used products and materials has become an increasingly important sector. Mankind, who uses the natural resources unconsciously, has found ways to improve recycling techniques when they realized that resources are becoming increasingly depleted. In the automotive sector, which is one of the largest sectors in the world, natural resources are being used to a great extent. According to the statistics, in 2009, approximately 9 million end-of-life vehicles (in Europe were withdrawn from traffic. Undoubtedly, this figure shows the necessity and importance of designing reverse logistics network optimized for ELVs. This research aims to determine the gaps in the literature by examining the studies made from the past to the present day in the field of reverse logistic network design for vehicles completed their life cycle. In this article, the studies in the fieldare analyzed based on objective functions, decision variables, constr handling metod, optimization methods used. Considered work are clustered using a special artificial neural network tool Organizing Maps (SOM), and the frequencies of the characteristics are shown in the study. This study, which includes a review of the literature and a clustering of studies, aims to guidethe researchers wo design of rreverse logistics networks for ELVs.

End-of-life vehicles recycling network design

2011

A growing ecological awareness in modern societies, legal regulations aiming at a reduction of waste storage and economic benefits that we can have from recycling of used products led to a situation that the creation of recycling networks has become an important issue, particularly in developed countries. The paper presents issues related to the design of recycling network whose purpose is to collect from the last owner, dismantle and properly recover end-oflife vehicles.

Sustainable recovery network design

Industrial Engineering and …

In order to achieve sustainability the design of the recovery network has to fulfill the different objectives from the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. In this paper a lexicographic integer linear goal programming (ILGP) model is developed to design a multicommodity recovery network for products of modular structure. The model results in locating facilities in a multiechelon network and assigning the products to the different end of life (EOL) options.

Optimization of reverse logistics network of End of Life Vehicles under fuzzy supply: A case study for Istanbul Metropolitan Area

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019

Recycling aims at preventing rapid depletion of natural resources while transforming produced waste into value for economy. However, this process becomes a major challenge in automotive industry, which requires cooperative engagement of multiple players within a complex supply chain. In line with the essence of the topic, government agencies around the world issue directives drawing regulatory frameworks for designing recycling operations comprising various activities such as collection of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), recovery of reusable components, shredding ELV's body, recycling valuable materials and disposal of the hazardous waste. In general, the amount of returned product in a reverse logistics network is highly uncertain, and the ELV market in Turkey is no exception to this. For that purpose, this study aims developing a fuzzy mixed integer location-allocation model for reverse logistic network of ELVs conforming to the existing directives in Turkey. Accordingly, this study uses a novel approach and assumes that ELV supply in the network is uncertain. The merit of the proposed mathematical model is proved on a real world scenario addressing the reverse logistics design problem for ELVs generated in metropolitan area of Istanbul. The network generated specifies that recycling process is not profitable under the existing circumstances with the given level of supplied ELV and the returned product records per capita in Istanbul are far beyond the EU averages. Consequently, sensitivity analyses question the reliability of the obtained results.

End-of-life vehicle management: a comprehensive review

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2019

Waste management is gaining very high importance in recent years. As automotive is one of the most critical sectors worldwide, which is rapidly increasing, the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) gains importance day by day. Due to legislation and new regulations, actors like users, producers, and treatment facilities are being conferred new responsibilities in the ELV management process. Besides, the ELV management is of vital importance for environment conservation, circular economy and sustainable development. All of these reasons are making the ELV management such a crucial issue to study. Today, the ELV management is a well-positioned and emergent research area. However, the available review papers are focused only on a small area of the ELV management, such as reverse logistics, recovery infrastructure, disassemblability, etc. Besides, a review of state-of-the-art mathematical models for the ELV management is still missing. This paper aims to provide an extensive content...

A goal programming model for sustainable reverse logistics operations planning and an application

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018

Highlights  Operations planning of waste electrical electronic equipment logistics and recovery are considered.  A triple-bottom line approach of sustainability is followed.  A multi-facility, multi-product and multi-period goal programming model is proposed.  Legal, environmental, economic and social objectives are considered.  A real application of a reverse logistics and recovery operations of household appliances is explained.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES NETWORK DESIGN

Archives of Transport, 2020

This paper investigates the current research in the field of the end-of-life vehicles (ELV) recycling network. The optimisation of the location of a network facilities in forward logistics in the automotive industry has received a lot of attention for many years but the reverse logistics for ELVs has been a subject of investigations since the beginning of 21st century. ELV recycling network design gained in popularity after the European Union and other countries like Japan, South Korea and recently China introduced legal obligations to organize a collecting or recycling network for used vehicles. When regulations are introduced, there is a need for a systemic solution to the problem, especially since the obligation to create a collection network is often accompanied by requirements related to its accessibility for vehicle owners or efficiency of operation. With the growing scope of legal regulations, companies or organisations responsible for the network are forced to redesign the existing recycling infrastructure in a given area so that it meets specific requirements. Initially, the most important criterion was network availability. Currently, the same importance is attached to economic, environmental and social aspects in order to meet the sustainability criteria. In this paper, forty one peer-reviewed published studies focused on network design were classified. Its main purpose is to provide an extensive review of state-of-the-art research published in the period 2000-2019. The scope of the review is limited to network design problems including facility location and flow allocation problems. Only papers that present mathematical models are considered. Studies on the ELV network design are classified based on: type of supply chain, type of network, optimisation problem, type of facilities, modelling technique, single/multi objectivity, objective function, period of time, solution approach and scope of implementation. The final part of the paper includes discussion of the methodology of the reviewed studies and some recommendations for future research area.

A decision model for a strategic closed-loop supply chain to reclaim End-of-Life Vehicles

2017

Closed-loop supply chain strategies for End-of-Life (EOL) products and their logistics operations have received greater attention in recent years from supply chain research community. These strategies include warranty-based acquisition, quantity-based acquisition, quality-based acquisition, centrally coordinated logistics operations and third-party logistics (3PL) operations. The proposed research integrates two important aspects of an automobile's closed-loop supply chain strategy. The first aspect is optimal transportation planning for raw material parts, newly manufactured and EOL products in a closed-loop supply chain, using demand, collection rate and capacity of associated facilities in the network as functional parameters. We formulated a mixed integer mathematical model for the closed-loop supply chain network with a multi-echelon inventory, multi-period planning and multi-product scenario, which are used to compute the maximum contribution margin generated through different strategies. The second aspect pertains to using the output of the proposed model in first stage to handle the sequential form of a cooperative game. The proposed two-phase decision model analyzes the realization times and delivery limits of different products as an indicator of swapping different strategies. We analyze three instances to understand and validate the applicability of the model. In these scenarios, sensitivity analysis has been performed to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed model. We present managerial insights, leading to flexibility in decision making. It is observed that the demand, collection rate and capacity of network facilities create highly sensitive trilogy for the contribution margin of proposed network. The outcome of this research firstly confers optimal amounts of mass flows in the closed loop supply chain network from a state of the end product (new products, recycled products and non-recycled used products) to a state of the raw material (ferrous metal, non-ferrous metal and shredder fluff). Secondly, authors culminated a confound dichotomy among all reintegration strategies (conveyance, acquisition and cannibalization) by distinct enumeration and quantification (regarding realization times and delivery limits) of each one to forge a robust planning horizon for original equipment manufacturer.

A Decentralized Reverse Logistics Network for End of Life Vehicles from Third Party Provider Perspective

With increasing concerns over environmental issues in End of Life vehicles, researches on life cycle management and reverse logistics are being expanded in automotive industry. Also, automotive producers have been involved in reverse logistics activities as a result of legislations for management of End of Life vehicles such as Directive 2000/EC/53. On the other hand, it has been proved that reverse logistics has the aspects of uncertainty on quantity, quality, time and place of returns and it is barely possible to reach economies of scale for any individual manufacturer. Therefore, third party reverse logistics is regarded as another alternative by automotive manufacturers. In this paper, designing a reverse logistics network for end of life vehicles, that contains third party provider, is studied. The proposed network is modeled from the third party provider perspective with aim at the minimization of total costs of the network. The mathematical model is a capacitated facility loc...