REVERSE LOGISTICS: THE PORTUGUESE COMPANIES' PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Mélodine Fernandes Gonçalves Faculdade Engenharia e Tecnologias. Universidade Lusíada. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3645-0727
  • Ângela Esteves Silva Faculdade Engenharia e Tecnologias. Universidade Lusíada.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2016.v13.n3.a9

Keywords:

Reverse Logistics, Multicases Study, Concept, Returns and Environment.

Abstract

The Reverse Logistics has been object of great interest by the whole community. In Portugal, Reverse Logistics is an unfamiliar word in the business world. Due to this fact, that will be interesting to analyze and characterize the Portuguese companies’ perspective based on three aspects: The Concept, the Returns and the Environment. For this, semi structured interviews were applied to ten Portuguese companies of different dimensions and industrial sectors. The results showed all the large companies are aware of Reverse Logistics, the product returns strategies are reuse, sale to the scrap or recycling industries and the environment strategies mostly used by small and medium-size enterprise’s (besides waste recycling) are their reuse in the packaging of loads, and by large companies is directed towards recycling, planning routes and the use of recycled materials and reusable packaging. It is understood that, a lot of work in Reverse Logistics is still needed in the context, concerning the companies’ awareness to know all their logistics chain (forward and reverse) and in spite of the small and medium-size enterprise’s lack of knowledge of the this area, they practice some returns and environmental strategies, but still in a very incipient way.

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Author Biographies

Mélodine Fernandes Gonçalves, Faculdade Engenharia e Tecnologias. Universidade Lusíada.

Mélodine Gonçalves is a master’s degree student in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lusíada University, Portugal. She holds a degree in the same area and a post-graduate in Human Resource Management. She has published papers in various Conference Proceedings about Reverse Logistics.

Ângela Esteves Silva, Faculdade Engenharia e Tecnologias. Universidade Lusíada.

Ângela Silva is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering and Technologies, University of Lusíada - North, Portugal and Invited Professor at School of Engineering at University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Engineering of Production and Systems from School of Engineering, University of Minho. She develops her research work in the R&D CLEGI and collaborates with Algoritmi Centre in operations management and logistics and also modeling and simulation of processes. Currently she supervises PhD and MSc projects in these areas, being co-author of several scientific papers published in International Journals and Conferences

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Published

2016-09-29

How to Cite

Gonçalves, M. F., & Silva, Ângela E. (2016). REVERSE LOGISTICS: THE PORTUGUESE COMPANIES’ PERSPECTIVE. Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 13(3), 330–337. https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2016.v13.n3.a9

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2016): September, 2016

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