This paper gives an overview of scientific literature that describes and discusses cases of reverse logistics activities in practice. Over sixty case studies are considered. Based on these studies we are able to indicate critical factors for the practice of reverse logistics. In addition we...

In this paper, we study a novel network design problem for the fourth-party logistics network (4PLN) to cope with accidental demand surges. A chance-constrained stochastic programming model is established to minimize the overall cost for 4PLN under service-level targets, where the stochastic...