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An exploration of reverse logistic practices in three companies 在三家公司的逆向物流实践探索 摘要 目的-RL流程以及一个公司可能会用来当做竞争优势的关键战略问题。 设计/方法/-该研究涉及采访和参观三家管理RL活动公司结果-是RL流程可以作为通用的类型，技术创新如何供应链整合，资源（人员，财政，上级管理）。/价值-提一个典型的流程能够指导效率RL活动。战略活动。Introduction 很多关于供应链管理的研究都着重于正向物流，即从原材料到最终产品的流，从供应商到最终的消费者(Prahinski and Kocabasoglu, 2006). 从消费者到供应商的逆向物的流动很少被人关注(Rogers and Tibben-Lembke, 2001; Stock et al.,2002).根据逆向物流执行理事会(Reverse Logistics Executive Council, 2007)，逆向物流是指“为了进行价值回收或适当处理，计划，实施和控制从消费点到原点的原材料、过程库存、最终产品和相关信息的高效低成本足以进行专门的研究领域 (Tibben-Lembke and Rogers, 2002,p. 271) The market for RL in the United States (US) was approximately $58 billion in 2004, comprising 0.5 percent of the US Gross Domestic Product (Reverse Logistics Executive Council, 2007), and the reverse flow is increasing (Dekker et al., 2004). RL covers a wide range of industries.environmental issues in logistics (Murphy and Poist, 2003).Landfill capacity in US has become more limited and expensive, and more restrictions are imposed to protect human health (Rogers and Tibben-Lembke, 1999;Prahinskiand Kocabasoglu, 2006). However, some companies still abandon end-of-life products with hazardous materials into land directly (e.g. International Association of Electronics Recyclers, 2006).The purpose of this paper is to investigate the RL practices with a goal to identify what may be considered a typical or generic RL process flow as well as the key strategic issues that a firm may use for competitive advantage.Our research questions are: 1 What may be considered a typical or generic RL process flow in practice? 2 What type of technology innovation and IT does the firm need in order to operate an effective RL system and how are these integrated across the reverse supply chain? 3 What level of resource commitment (personnel, financial,upper-level management) does a company need to makein order to support successful RL efforts? 4 What values does a firm derive from RL and what are the key performance indicators to measure these values