Lasse Skaksen

Reverse Logistics. an Analysis Lasse Skaksen

Project Report from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 9.5 of 10, Griffith University (MBA - Business), course: Strategic Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: This research report will describe, analyse and evaluate an increasingly relevant topic within global business logics, namely Reverse Logistics. Two main external drivers as well as the major internal motives to establish a Reverse Logistics network will be identified and examined. The following definition of Reverse Logistics by Hawks will be utilized in this report: "the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal" ("reference", 2006).