AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA

Deriving from insights gained in a concrete empirical quantitative modelling research, the aim of the paper is to present the methodology and results of a Packaging Waste (PW) logistics exploratory study that was conducted in cooperation with a leading southeastern European retail chain company. PW...

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Main Authors: Andrej Lisec, Slobodan Antić, Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín, Vaska Pejić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2018-12-01
Series:Transport
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2017.1326404
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spelling doaj-7e1c2a8f3dbf417abc9b9290e2b6a0802021-07-02T01:17:45ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityTransport1648-41421648-34802018-12-013351104111210.3846/16484142.2017.1326404AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIAAndrej Lisec0Slobodan Antić1Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín2Vaska Pejić3University of MariborUniveristy of BelgradePolytechnic University of CartagenUniversity of MariborDeriving from insights gained in a concrete empirical quantitative modelling research, the aim of the paper is to present the methodology and results of a Packaging Waste (PW) logistics exploratory study that was conducted in cooperation with a leading southeastern European retail chain company. PW Reverse Logistics (RL) is specific, but an integral part of retail operations and can also represent significant logistics and transportation costs concerns. In our research, we have, with a simulation model, been able to reduce the number of tonne-kilometres for 55% which represents significant cost reduction. The study scope focuses on the RL of industrial PW as the handling object of interest in retail, decoupled from the possible returns flow of non-food items and waste generated on premise by shoppers and employees, classified as non-industrial. It introduces an analytical framework, which has been tested and applied to a real case problem.https://doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2017.1326404logisticsreverse logisticsretailingpackaging wastehandling
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Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín
Vaska Pejić
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Slobodan Antić
Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín
Vaska Pejić
AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
Transport
logistics
reverse logistics
retailing
packaging waste
handling
author_facet Andrej Lisec
Slobodan Antić
Francisco Campuzano-Bolarín
Vaska Pejić
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title AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
title_short AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
title_full AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
title_fullStr AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
title_full_unstemmed AN APPROACH TO PACKAGING WASTE REVERSE LOGISTICS: CASE OF SLOVENIA
title_sort approach to packaging waste reverse logistics: case of slovenia
publisher Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
series Transport
issn 1648-4142
1648-3480
publishDate 2018-12-01
description Deriving from insights gained in a concrete empirical quantitative modelling research, the aim of the paper is to present the methodology and results of a Packaging Waste (PW) logistics exploratory study that was conducted in cooperation with a leading southeastern European retail chain company. PW Reverse Logistics (RL) is specific, but an integral part of retail operations and can also represent significant logistics and transportation costs concerns. In our research, we have, with a simulation model, been able to reduce the number of tonne-kilometres for 55% which represents significant cost reduction. The study scope focuses on the RL of industrial PW as the handling object of interest in retail, decoupled from the possible returns flow of non-food items and waste generated on premise by shoppers and employees, classified as non-industrial. It introduces an analytical framework, which has been tested and applied to a real case problem.
topic logistics
reverse logistics
retailing
packaging waste
handling
url https://doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2017.1326404
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