Integrating a web-based system with business processes in closed loop supply chains

Closed Loop Supply Chains include operations for physical collection of end-of-use products, selection based on their configuration and/or condition and decision making for reuse, remanufacturing or recycling. Uncertainty factors regarding the time, place of origin, and status of returns introduce many difficulties in planning these operations. With the aim to minimize such problems, this paper presents an architecture for virtual reverse logistics networks and an implementation for end-of-use PCs. The virtual reverse logistics network for PCs relies on E-commerce and WWW technologies for remote monitoring and benchmarking, instead of physical transportation and inspection. A configuration monitoring and benchmarking agent screens the computer that is about to enter the end-of-use stream and registers the data in the system’s databases. The virtual reverse logistics network regards all incoming PCs as submitted offers. Also, users or agents may explicitly register requests for PCs or modules. Offers are matched to requests with a decision support system to provide recommendations for reuse, remanufacturing or recycling of end-of-use PCs. An electronic marketplace matches requests and offers. The proposed architecture diminishes the uncertainty factors and provides us with an understanding on what is missing and it is likely to have a positive impact to the development of virtual reverse logistics networks for computers and other equipment with embedded logic.business processes;Closed Loop Supply Chains;virtual reverse logistics networks;web-based system

From e-trash to e-treasure: how value can be created by the new e-business models for reverse logistics

Reverse logistics, that is, all operations related to the reuse of used products, excess inventory and packaging materials, gain increasing attention globally both for their promising financial potentials, the sustainable growth alternative they offer and the environmental positive impact they have. In this paper, we introduce reverse logistics and we explain how the adoption of e-commerce provides new possibilities to existing business models and what are the new e-business models in reverse logistics that have emerged. We compare these three new e-business models, namely, returns aggregators, specialty locators and integrated solution providers on a number of aspects and identify keys for their competitive advantage. Finally, we discuss conceptual and actual opportunities for these e-business models to thrive and advance and present some e-commerce tools that are being developed with the aim to address the distributed, dynamic and knowledge-intensive aspects of applications that contribute to the advancement of e-businesses in the field of reverse logistics.e-commerce;Reverse logistics;e-business models

Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains

In this paper we study design principles for closed loop supply chains. Closed loop supply chains aim at closing material flows thereby limiting emission and residual waste, but also providing customer service at low cost. We study 'traditional' and 'new' design principles known in the literature. It appears that setting up closed loop supply chains requires some additional design principles because of sustainability requirements. At the same time however, we see that traditional principles also apply. Subsequently we look at a business situation at Honeywell. Here, only a subset of the relevant design principles is applied. The apparent low status of reverse logistics may provide an explanation for this. To some extent, the same mistakes are made again as were 20 years ago in, for instance, inbound logistics. Thus, obvious improvements can be made by applying traditional principles. Also new principles, which require a life cycle driven approach, need to be applied. This can be supported by advanced management tools such as LCA and LCC.reverse logistics;case-study;closed loop supply chains

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Integrating a web-based system with business processes in closed loop supply chains

Closed Loop Supply Chains include operations for physical collection of end-of-use products, selection based on their configuration and/or condition and decision making for reuse, remanufacturing or recycling. Uncertainty factors regarding the time, place of origin, and status of returns introduce many difficulties in planning these operations. With the aim to minimize such problems, this paper presents an architecture for virtual reverse logistics networks and an implementation for end-of-use PCs. The virtual reverse logistics network for PCs relies on E-commerce and WWW technologies for remote monitoring and benchmarking, instead of physical transportation and inspection. A configuration monitoring and benchmarking agent screens the computer that is about to enter the end-of-use stream and registers the data in the system’s databases. The virtual reverse logistics network regards all incoming PCs as submitted offers. Also, users or agents may explicitly register requests for PCs or modules. Offers are matched to requests with a decision support system to provide recommendations for reuse, remanufacturing or recycling of end-of-use PCs. An electronic marketplace matches requests and offers. The proposed architecture diminishes the uncertainty factors and provides us with an understanding on what is missing and it is likely to have a positive impact to the development of virtual reverse logistics networks for computers and other equipment with embedded logic

eCommerce for Reverse Logistics

The focus of the proposed panel will be on issues pertaining e-commerce and reverse logistics activities, which typically include operations for collection, selection and decision making for the optimal recovery option (reuse, remanufacture or recycle) of post-retail or surplus products nearing obsolescence

From e-trash to e-treasure: how value can be created by the new e-business models for reverse logistics

Reverse logistics, that is, all operations related to the reuse of used products, excess inventory and packaging materials, gain increasing attention globally both for their promising financial potentials, the sustainable growth alternative they offer and the environmental positive impact they have. In this paper, we introduce reverse logistics and we explain how the adoption of e-commerce provides new possibilities to existing business models and what are the new e-business models in reverse logistics that have emerged. We compare these three new e-business models, namely, returns aggregators, specialty locators and integrated solution providers on a number of aspects and identify keys for their competitive advantage. Finally, we discuss conceptual and actual opportunities for these e-business models to thrive and advance and present some e-commerce tools that are being developed with the aim to address the distributed, dynamic and knowledge-intensive aspects of applications that contribute to the advancement of e-businesses in the field of reverse logistics

Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains

In this paper we study design principles for closed loop supply chains. Closed loop supply chains aim at closing material flows thereby limiting emission and residual waste, but also providing customer service at low cost. We study 'traditional' and 'new' design principles known in the literature. It appears that setting up closed loop supply chains requires some additional design principles because of sustainability requirements. At the same time however, we see that traditional principles also apply. Subsequently we look at a business situation at Honeywell. Here, only a subset of the relevant design principles is applied. The apparent low status of reverse logistics may provide an explanation for this. To some extent, the same mistakes are made again as were 20 years ago in, for instance, inbound logistics. Thus, obvious improvements can be made by applying traditional principles. Also new principles, which require a life cycle driven approach, need to be applied. This can be supported by advanced management tools such as LCA and LCC

Abordagem social do suic?dio: o suic?dio entre jovens e adolescentes como fen?meno da modernidade tardia

This research aims to problematize the relations between suicide and late modern society with focus on the experience of the young adults and teenagers aiming: to discuss about modern age and the current society and it's characteristics; map the conception and factors of suicide/ identify the relations between media, technology and juveniles; identify the risk factors towards suicide between teenagers and young adults and understand their feeling towards suicide. The social representations allow us to study their thoughts, symbolization and behavior towards suicide, essentially to their socialization, being this research done by bibliographic survey, by social network and other technologic means including analyzing the American series ?13 Reasons Why? by Netflix and the ?blue whale game?, which address the issue and personal life stories interview. The interviews had as methodology the oral reports of two young women between 15 and 29 years old who experienced situations of ideation and attempts of suicide, overcoming these situations and offering their life stories. The development of the work counted on the theoretical discussion about the modernity and its impacts on the individuality and self-identity, as well as the relations with modern institutions and their role on the means of mass communication and media on the experience of the young. The life stories serve as to emphasize some elements present on this discussion. It is notable the perception of fragility of the integrating institutions, like family and school, supposed to offer safety to these young children and teenagers. It is revealed a precarious attention of these institutions in the formation of these people, generating feeling of loneliness, sadness, insecurity, lack of trust, anxiety among others who lead to depression. As a result of these debilities in the institutions in late modernity, we have suicide ideation, selfmutilation, suicide attempts and suicide as a form of escape, of relief of the situations that they live in their day-to-day life, especially during the transition to adolescence. The situations that currently are leading young adults and teenagers to suicide is discussed on this study.Essa pesquisa objetiva problematizar as rela??es entre o suic?dio e a sociedade na modernidade tardia com foco nas experi?ncias de jovens e adolescentes, visando: fazer uma discuss?o sobre a atual sociedade e suas caracter?sticas; mapear a concep??o e fatores do suic?dio; identificar as rela??es entre m?dia, tecnologia e jovens; identificar fatores de risco em rela??o ao suic?dio entre adolescentes e jovens e compreender os sentimentos em rela??o ao suic?dio. As representa??es sociais nos permitem estudar o que os jovens pensam, simbolizam, sentem e quais os comportamentos assumem diante destas realidades, essenciais na sua socializa??o, sendo nesta pesquisa desenvolvidos por meio de levantamento bibliogr?fico, de pesquisas em redes sociais, em jornais, e outros meios tecnol?gicos, incluindo an?lise da s?rie americana?13 Reasons Why? e do ?Jogo da Baleia Azul? que abordam o tema, al?m de entrevistas de hist?ria de vida. As entrevistas que tiveram como metodologia a hist?ria oral, foram realizadas com duas jovens entre 15 e 29 anos que experimentaram situa??es de idea??es e tentativas de suic?dio, superaram esta situa??o e se dispuseram a relatar suas hist?rias de vida. O desenvolvimento do trabalho contou com a discuss?o te?rica sobre a modernidade e seus impactos na individualidade e na forma??o das autoidentidades, bem como a rela??o com as institui??es modernas e o papel dos meios de comunica??o de massa/m?dias nas experi?ncias dos jovens. As hist?rias de vida servem para ressaltar alguns elementos presentes nessa discuss?o. Pode-se perceber a fragilidade das institui??es integradoras, como a fam?lia e a escola, geradoras de seguran?a para os jovens. Revela-se uma prec?ria aten??o dessas institui??es na forma??o desses sujeitos, gerando sentimentos de isolamento, solid?o, tristeza, inseguran?a, falta de confian?a, ansiedades entre outros que levam ? depress?o. Como resultado dessa debilidade das institui??es na modernidade tardia tem-se as idea??es suicidas, automutila??es, tentativas de suic?dio e o suic?dio como uma forma de ?fuga?, de al?vio das situa??es que vivenciam em seu cotidiano, principalmente no per?odo de transi??o para a adolesc?ncia. As situa??es de risco ao suic?dio entre jovens e adolescentes s?o problematizadas neste estudo

O novo e o velho na alfabetiza??o: di?logos poss?veis

This study about the innovations and contradictions (of the old and the new) in and for literacy in the 9th (9th) year Primary School, ains to answer the following question: What discussions and innovations have been assumed and publicized in regard to literacy processes in the I Elementary School Cycle of 09 (nine) years, after Law n? 11.274 / 2006? What do the interlocutors of the theme say, and what do students of initial formation understand about this process? The objective of this study is te analyze and compare the understandings of literacy and innovation (the new and the old), highlighting the changes and contradictions that remain despite the changes in legislation and the reflections that have been made. It is a qualitative research, with bibliographic support, from the state of knowledge and documentary type. First of all, we enter into the studies that deal with this training particularity available in SciELO's scientific base, and in the sequence we seek the understandings indicated in reports on the compulsory curricular Pedagogy Course of the training, held in the First Cycle of Elementary Education (1st to 3rd year). In order to give cover to the above, we enter the studies of Mortatti (2006), Smolka (1993), Lemle (2007), Freire (2000, 2011, 2012) and the Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina (1998), among others that deal with the discussions literacy and its historical challenges. Educational processes are seen by innovation researchers as something historical and circumstantial, such as studies by Messina (2001), Carborell (2002), Isaia, Bolzan and Maciel (2009), Imbern?n (2010) and Leite, Genro and Braga ( 2011). As results, we highlight the dichotomy between the legal requirements and the commitments assumed by the State, as a provider of rights, with the social network and school units. In addition, there is the lack of dialogue between universities, schools and literacy teachers, which makes this partnership fragile; there is also a gap between production, training, and literacy experiences, wich shows how far apart we are from each other. There is, therefore, a need of new organizational movements, new resume?s, new methodologies, new learning possibilities, which have been and are being required, since the six-year-old child became a student of the first year on elementary school, and the question follows: what can we do?Este estudo, acerca das inova??es e das contradi??es (do velho e do novo) na e para a alfabetiza??o no Ensino Fundamental de 09 (Nove) Anos, busca responder ? seguinte indaga??o: Que discuss?es e inova??es v?m sendo assumidas e publicizadas em aten??o aos processos de alfabetiza??o no I Ciclo do Ensino Fundamental de 09 (Nove) Anos, no p?s Lei n? 11.274/2006? O que dizem os interlocutores do tema, e o que compreendem os estudantes da forma??o inicial em rela??o a este processo? O objetivo deste estudo ? analisar e cotejar os entendimentos de alfabetiza??o e inova??o (o novo e o velho) dando destaque ?s mudan?as e ?s contradi??es que permanecem, apesar da mudan?a de legisla??o e das reflex?es que v?m sendo realizadas. Constitui-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, com suporte bibliogr?fico, do tipo estado do conhecimento e documental. Primeiramente, adentramos nos estudos que se ocupam desta especificidade formativa dispon?veis na base cient?fica da SciELO e, na sequ?ncia, buscamos as compreens?es assinaladas em relat?rios de est?gio curricular obrigat?rio do Curso de Pedagogia, realizados no I Ciclo do Ensino Fundamental (1? ao 3? ano). Para dar guarida ao exposto, embrenhamos nos estudos de Mortatti (2006), Smolka (1993), Lemle (2007), Freire (2000; 2011; 2012) e a Proposta Curricular de Santa Catarina (1998), dentre outros que se ocupam das discuss?es relativas ? alfabetiza??o e aos seus desafios hist?ricos. Os processos educacionais s?o vistos, pelos pesquisadores da inova??o, como algo hist?rico e circunstancial, tais como as contribui??es de Messina (2001), Carborell (2002), Isaia, Bolzan e Maciel (2009), Imbern?n (2010) e Leite, Genro e Braga (2011). Como resultados, destacamos a dicotomia entre as exig?ncias legais e os compromissos assumidos pelo Estado, enquanto ente provedor dos direitos, junto ?s redes e ?s unidades escolares. Al?m disso, h? pouco di?logo entre as universidades, escolas e professores alfabetizadores, o que torna essa parceria fr?gil; h? tamb?m um hiato entre produ??o, forma??o e viv?ncias de alfabetiza??o, o que mostra a dist?ncia entre as partes envolvidas em tal processo. H?, pois, necessidade de novos movimentos organizativos, novos curr?culos, novas metodologias e novas possibilidades de aprendizagem, as quais foram e est?o sendo requeridas, em fun??o de que a crian?a de seis anos, tornou-se aluna do 1? ano do Ensino Fundamental, e a pergunta segue: o que podemos fazer