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AN OVERVIEW ON RETAIL REVERSE LOGISTICS

Studies and Scientific Researchs. Economics Edition

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Title AN OVERVIEW ON RETAIL REVERSE LOGISTICS
 
Creator Olariu, Ioana
 
Subject competitive advantage; network design; outsourcing; retail activity; reverse logistics
M31
 
Description This article is a theoretical approach on retail reverse logistics. Environmental concern and the current marketing strategy have spurred retailers to implement strategies to facilitate product returns from end customers. Reverse logistics, indicating the process of this return flow, encompasses such activities as the movement of returned products, facilities to accommodate returned items, and overall remedy process for returned items. The retail industry, under great competitive pressure, has used return policies as a competitive weapon. Grocery retailers were the first to begin to focus serious attention on the problem of returns and to develop reverse logistics innovations. Grocery retailers first developed innovations such as reclamation centers. Reclamation centers, in turn, led to the establishment of centralized return centers. Centralizing returns has led to significant benefits for most firms that have implemented them. Over the last several years, retailers have consolidated. Now, more than ever, reverse logistics is seen as being important. This reverse distribution activity can be crucial to the survival of companies, because the permanent goodwill of the company is at stake. Businesses succeed because they respond to both external and internal changes and adjust in an effective manner to remain competitive.
 
Publisher Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-07-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.sceco.ub.ro/index.php/SCECO/article/view/247
10.29358/sceco.v0i19.247
 
Source STUDIES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES. ECONOMICS EDITION; No 19 (2014)
STUDII SI CERCETARI STIINTIFICE. SERIA STIINTE ECONOMICE; No 19 (2014)
2344-1321
2066-561X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.sceco.ub.ro/index.php/SCECO/article/view/247/244