Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Strategic Overview Chapter

abstract

• Managers who consider a closed-loop supply chain just another environmental initiative need to update their thinking. Modern firms that use closed-loop supply chains as a competitive strategy receive many benefitsparticularly higher profitability and control over a products entire lifecycle. In fact, the market for multiple lifecycle products continues to grow, with current estimates holding that remanufactured product sales exceed $100 billion per year. As a result of analyzing the ever-growing remanufacturing sector through years of working with managers in numerous industries, various levers and themes surrounding effective closed-loop supply chain strategies became apparent. This chapter presents these findings and shows how firms in multiple industries experienced both successes and failures of their closed-loop supply chain strategies.

authors

• Abbey, James

author list (cited authors)

• Abbey, J. D., & Guide, V.

citation count

• 21
• 26

complete list of authors

• Abbey, James D||Guide, V Daniel R

editor list (cited editors)

• Bouchery, Y., Corbett, C. J., Fransoo, J. C., & Tan, T.

Book Title

• Sustainable Supply Chains

publication date

• 2017

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Springer Series in Supply Chain Management  Journal

keywords

• 12 Responsible Consumption And Production
• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour
• 3509 Transportation, Logistics And Supply Chains
• 9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/978-3-319-29791-0_17

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 3-319-29791-0

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9783319297897

start page

• 375

end page

• 393

volume

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29791-0_17

user-defined tag

• 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
• 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure