Research on the reverse logistics model based on e-commerce

Reverse logistics is becoming more important in over all industry area because of the environmental and business factors. Planning and implementing a suitable reverse logistics network could bring more economic profits, customers´ satisfaction, and a nice social picture for companies. In the e-commerce environment, reverse logistics indicated some new characteristics, such as intensive, collaborative and flexible. And a good reverse logistics model will greatly improve the development of e-business. However, the existed four reverse logistics, such as self-type model, third party model, strategic alliance model and integrated solution provider (ISP) model could not adapt to the change of e-commerce. Therefore, based on the analysis of four reverse logistics models, some recommendations about reverse logistics process design and application are provided in the paper.