Reverse Logistics—Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 September 2023) | Viewed by 1820
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced industrial engineering
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Interests: advanced industrial engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
"Reverse Logistics—Creating Sustainable Supply Chain” is a major direction of current and future technological development and also a strategy of European development and research. The approach reverse flows with the same technical proficiency, speed, and accuracy as outbound flows to maintain a high level of excellence throughout the customer journey. Supply chains are being challenged all around the world. Some are being created on the spot to ensure local delivery, while others increase in complexity by connecting buyers with suppliers globally. Wherever buyers and suppliers are located, and no matter how long you have been in business with your trade partners, you aim to improve your working capital and strengthen good working relationships. Given the importance of sustainable development and the rapid development of new literature in this field, this Special Issue will enrich the literature with a wide range of discussions, contributing to the development of further research in the field of advanced industrial engineering, sustainable development in the industry and other relevant topics. Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit your research paper on the topic “Reverse Logistics—Creating Sustainable Supply Chain”.
This Topic seeks high-quality works focusing on the following topics:
- Reverse logistics;
- Creating a sustainable supply chain;
- Sustainable development;
- Industrial assembly technologies;
- Logistics systems design for industrial applications;
- Paradigms of modern manufacturing system designs;
- Flexible and focused manufacturing systems;
- Reconfigurable manufacturing systems and other manufacturing concepts of the future;
- Advanced industrial engineering;
- Manufacturing system capacity balancing.
Dr. Vladimira Binasova
Prof. Dr. Branislav Micieta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- Industry 4.0
- reverse logistics, innovation
- management
- industrial engineering
- green knowledge
- advanced industrial engineering
- management
- economics
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