Over 161 million tonnes of plastic packaging is produced annually, yet only a small fraction
of plastic packaging is recycled. To help eliminate unnecessary plastic packaging and its …

Uncertainties in acquisition, processing, market, and other stages of the closed-loop supply
chain have greatly added to the complexity of remanufacturing and have reduced process …

The pivotal shift from single-use to reusable packaging has recently challenged the concept
of packaging ownership. Extant literature have studied supply chain systems using reusable …

Abstract Information and communication technologies are recognised to be sufficiently
mature to support traceability for reusable packaging at large scale. However, issues of data …

The aim of the research outlined in this paper is to demonstrate the implementation of a
Cyber-Physical System (CPS) within the Automotive Industry for the monitoring and control …

This paper studies a two-stage supply chain where returnable transport items (RTIs) are
used to ship finished products from the supplier to the buyer. Empty RTIs are collected at the …

Information and communication technology (ICT) consumes energy, but is also an important
means of conserving energy. Conventionally, it has done so by optimizing the performance …

This paper studies a closed-loop supply chain that uses containers for transporting products
from a supplier to a retailer. At the retailer, used containers are collected and returned to the …

We compare two different modes, ie, dedicated mode and shared mode, used in packaging
management in automotive parts logistics. In dedicated mode, every parts supplier uses his …

This study considers a single vendor supplying a single retailer with a finished product
packed in returnable transport items (RTIs), such as containers, pallets or crates, to facilitate …