Nerwork design for reverse logistics of reciclabe paper

• Grant number: 13/06794-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Operational Research
• Principal Investigator: Eli Angela Vitor Toso
• Grantee: Caio Yamamoto Lemos
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The study of logistics network aims to evaluate how best to dispose the facilities in this network, ensure a smooth flow of products and optimize the resources involved. However, in the case of reverse logistics post - consumer, this is not a low-complexity task, since there are many variables involved and a high degree of uncertainty, since this chain is known to be many - to - few, where direction of flow of products takes many customers for a few suppliers. Faced with this problem and the rapid growth of globalization, the management of supply chains proves indispensable. Thus, this study aims to analyze quantitatively the Network Configuration of Reverse Logistics Paper Post - Consumption, by collecting data and formulating mathematical models of Operations Research available in the literature, and as a final goal, model validation, comparison and analysis of the results generated by the resolution of the model developed with the current scenario of the studied network.(AU)