A Planning of Forward and Reverse Logistics for a Closed-Loop Supply Chain Model

ABSTRACT In this paper, we develop a supply chain model in a closed-loop supply chain environment with the manufacturing of new product and remanufacturing of returned product. We consider our model for a single item and it consists of a single plant, single demand market, single collection center and single disposal center. The item manufactures in a plant then it distributes to the demand market. The product which is rejected by the customers is moved to the collection center. The product which is recoverable is distributed to the plant for remanufacturing and the remaining will distribute to the disposal center. The objective of his model is to minimize the total cost in the entire supply chain environment. Finally, the model is illustrated with a numerical example. Keywords: Closed-loop supply chain, Product manufacturing, Product remanufacturing, Product recovery.