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REVERSE LOGISTICS AND ITS IMPACTS ON COMPANY'S COST MANAGEMENT

2008; Volume: 19; Issue: Special Linguagem: Inglês

10.5455/ey.10657

2791-9439

Erol Bulut, Ali Deran,

Public Procurement and Policy

Reverse logistics is a term referring to reverse way of doing logistics management. Reverse logistics activities include the removal, return for refurbishment, recycling for safe disposal of products. Many organizations have not focused on reverse logistics. For this reason, organizations have not established policies, systems, human or financial resources to deal with this area. It is no doubt that reverse logistics have a positive impact on a company’s cost saving and competition policies. In this aspect, this paper stresses on definition, scope, impacts on company’s cost management, essence and importance of reverse logistics.