The Carnegie Bosch Institute
International Conference on Closed-Loop Supply Chains
May 31–June 2, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Edited by V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr. and Luk N. Van Wassenhove

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PART 1 - SETTING THE STAGE

BUSINESS ASPECTS OF CLOSED-LOOP SUPPLY CHAINS
     Daniel R. Guide, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, USA
     Luk N. Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France

RETAIL REVERSE LOGISTICS PRACTICE
     Ronals S. Tibben-Lembke and Dale S. Rogers
     University of Nevada-Reno, USA

PRODUCT RECOVERY STRATEGIES
     Simme Douwe P. Flapper, Technische Univerisiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

CONTRACTING AND COORDINATION IN CLOSED-LOOP SUPPLY CHAINS
     Charles J. Corbett, University of California-Los Angeles, USA
     R. Canan Savaskan, Northwestern University, USA

 

PART II - LOGISTICS, PRODUCTION PLANNING AND INVENTORY CONTROL IN CLOSED-LOOP SUPLY CHAINS

REVERSE LOGISTICS NETWORK STRUCTURES AND DESIGN
     Moritz Fleischmann, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL OF CLOSED-LOOP CHAINS
     Karl Inderfurth, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
     Ruud H. Teunter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

INVENTORY CONTROL IN REVERSE LOGISTICS
     Rommert Dekker, Rotterdam School of Economics and
     Erwin van der Laan, Rotterdam School of Management,
     Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

PART III - LISTENING TO THE CUSTOMER

FORECASTING PRODUCT RETURNS
     Beril Toktay, INSEAD, France

REUSE AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
     Jonathan D. Linton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
     Shantanu Bhattacharya, INSEAD, France

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CLOSED-LOOP SUPPLY CHAINS
     Harold Krikke, Angelika Kokkinaki, Jo can Nunen
     Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

DESIGN ENGINEERING
     Chris Hendrickson, H. Scott Matthews, Jonathan Cagan and Francis C. McMichael, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

PART IV - THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

THE ECONOMICS OF REMANUFACTURING
     Geraldo Ferrer and D. Clay Whybark, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

MANAGING PRODUCT RETURNS FOR REMANUFACTURING
     V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, USA
     Luk N. van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France