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Supply Chain Management towards Circular Economy

A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Supply Chain Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 1472

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Victoria Muerza

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Grupo Decisión Multicriterio Zaragoza (GDMZ). Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zaragoza, Gran Vía 2, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: transport; logistics; supply chain; quantitative methods; decision science
Prof. Dr. Emilio Larrodé

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Zaragoza, 50001 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: sustainable transport systems; effectiveness in transport operations; optimization of transport system operation and control; reverse logistics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The evolution of supply chains to achieve a circular economy is driven by political, legal, economic, environmental and social factors, and requires the implementation of sustainable practices. The European Union is promoting initiatives like the European Green Deal to reduce environmental impact and foster sustainability innovation. Strict regulations such as ISO 14001 and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compel businesses to adopt sustainable methods, improving resource efficiency and ensuring compliance. Economically, circular strategies offer cost savings and resilience against environmental risks. Environmentally, the shift aims to minimize waste and conserve resources, aligning with global sustainability goals. Socially, consumer demand for eco-friendly products encourages companies to integrate circular practices, enhancing brand reputation.

With regard to transportation and logistics within the supply chain, optimizing routes, using sustainable vehicles, and adopting reverse logistics facilitate product recovery. Efficient inventory management, sustainable packaging, and advanced information systems improve supply chain efficiency. This Special Issue provides a platform for academic researchers to present their new and unpublished work dealing with adapting supply chain management to achieve a circular economy.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Optimization models for transport efficiency in circular supply chains.
  • Multicriteria decision analysis for sustainable logistics.
  • Carbon footprint modeling and reduction strategies.
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) integration for traceability in circular supply chains.
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for environmental impact in circular supply chains.
  • Statistical forecasting for demand management in circular supply chains.
  • Reverse logistics practices.
  • Supply chain resilience for circular economy.

Dr. Victoria Muerza
Prof. Dr. Emilio Larrodé
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • operations management
  • decision making
  • carbon footprint
  • life cycle assessment
  • reverse logistics
  • resilient supply chains

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Remanufacturing Closed-Loop Supply Chain Contract Coordination Considering Quality Control
by Wei Duan, Mingli Liu, Desheng Xu and Liping Han
Systems 2024, 12(9), 350; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090350 - 6 Sep 2024
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The quality control of remanufactured products in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) can significantly influence consumers’ decision-making, and the contract coordination of CLSC has also become a research hotspot. This paper explores the quality control problem in a three-level remanufacturing CLSC consisting of [...] Read more.
The quality control of remanufactured products in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) can significantly influence consumers’ decision-making, and the contract coordination of CLSC has also become a research hotspot. This paper explores the quality control problem in a three-level remanufacturing CLSC consisting of a remanufacturer, a retailer, and a recycler by constructing a system dynamics (SD) model, which contains two contract schemes: quality control contract and quality control–revenue-sharing contract. Subsequently, the proposed SD model is analyzed using various schemes. The findings suggest that without mandatory contracts, CLSC members are frequently unable to fulfill their quality improvement commitments. Among them, recyclers are less likely to improve quality and more prone to breaking promises. The quality control problem in CLSC can be addressed through contract coordination, and the quality control contract scheme can avoid non-compliance with quality improvement commitments. The application of the quality control–revenue-sharing combination contract scheme not only resolves the quality control issue but also promotes profit improvement in the CLSC. Full article
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Operational Decisions of Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Supply Chain Members under Altruistic Preferences
by Junlin Zhu, Hao Zhang, Weihong Chen and Xingwei Li
Systems 2024, 12(9), 346; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12090346 - 3 Sep 2024
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How to efficiently and greenly dismantle abandoned buildings and reuse them is a dilemma facing the building material industry’s low-carbon objective. However, relevant studies ignore the influence mechanism of altruistic preferences of enterprises on green dismantling technology in supply chains. Driven by filling [...] Read more.
How to efficiently and greenly dismantle abandoned buildings and reuse them is a dilemma facing the building material industry’s low-carbon objective. However, relevant studies ignore the influence mechanism of altruistic preferences of enterprises on green dismantling technology in supply chains. Driven by filling this theoretical gap, this paper firstly integrates reciprocal altruism theory and the Stackalberg game method and constructs a construction and demolition waste (CDW) recycling supply chain system consisting of a recycler and a remanufacturer, in which enterprises’ altruistic preferences are considered. The main theoretical outcomes of this paper are as follows. (1) In the case of unilateral altruism, enterprises’ altruistic preference behaviors help in increasing the green dismantling technological level and the amount of CDW recycling. Under the mutual altruism model, the influence of the recycler’s altruistic preference degree on the amount of CDW recycled hinges on the remanufacturer’s altruistic preference degree. (2) The utility of the enterprises and the green dismantling technological level are optimized under the mutual altruism model. (3) In a system of unequal power, unilateral “goodwill” by the follower will have a negative effect on their own interests; the leader plays a crucial role in facilitating equal cooperation and realizing win–win situations. This paper enriches the reciprocal altruism theory in waste management. It also helps in providing guidance for the recycler and remanufacturer in making operational decisions. Full article
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