Profit Driven Reverse Logistics

This paper explores and examines whether profit driven reverse logistics is a feasible and worthwhile proposition. A decision-making framework that captures real life scenarios and provides near optimal solutions related to various aspects of reverse logistics for making various decisions in a profit-motivated context has been suggested. We cover products ranging from “low volumes and growing markets” to “high volumes and declining markets” in the Indian context. Our findings indicate that reverse logistics activities are profitable for all categories of products considered beyond a certain minimum quantity of returns. Implications for various stakeholders may be derived from them