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"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
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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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Decision-Making in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain under Fairness Concerns and Optimal Subsidies

by Zichun Deng, Mohd Rizaimy Shaharudin and Ming-Lang Tseng

Sustainability 2023, 15(9), 7380; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097380 - 28 Apr 2023

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Abstract

Government subsidies have played an important role in closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) waste utilization. However, when the retailer is disadvantaged in the supply chain cooperation and does not have access to subsidies, fairness issues may arise that affect pricing and subsidies. Therefore, this study aims to examine the optimal solutions for a government-led CLSC with remanufacturing subsidies and fairness concerns. We develop a three-echelon game with a government, a manufacturer, and a fairness-concerned retailer and derive the solutions for four scenarios: the fairness-neutral model, without fairness issues; the retailer has fairness concerns about the distribution of supply chain profits, and the concerned behavior is recognized by the manufacturer; the retailer is fairness-concerned, but the manufacturer ignores the concerned behavior; and the centralized scenario. Through the comparative analysis of different models, we design a cooperation mechanism for enterprises. Then, the conclusions are verified by numerical experiments. This study shows the following: (1) The retailer is always willing to maintain fairness concerns, but this does not affect the amount of collection. (2) The government will consume more subsidies because of the fairness issue ignored by the manufacturer. (3) Only when unit waste pollution is relatively low while the degree of fairness concerns is significant, will the manufacturer recognize the fairness concerns to reduce its unfavorable impact on profit. The increase in the level of concern can bring more benefits for two enterprises by consuming more subsidies for the highly polluting wastes. (4) A two-part tariff contract can coordinate the enterprises and promote social welfare within a certain parameter range. Full article

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