Title :
Reverse Logistics Operation Management Based on Virtual Enterprises and Evaluation
Author_Institution :
Manage. Sci. Dept., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen
Abstract :
Based on analyzing the difficulties of reverse logistics operation management, considering the new environment as the economic society developing continuously and discussing the feasibility of virtual enterprise, an operation management mode for reverse logistics based on virtual enterprise is presented in this paper. Evaluation of virtual enterprises for reverse logistics operation is based on the firms´ multi-criteria which are qualitative or quantitative. By using fuzzy AHP technique, the hierarchical and the multi-criteria decision making problems for virtual enterprise are considered and the optimized selection is presented.
Keywords :
decision making; fuzzy set theory; operations research; reverse logistics; virtual enterprises; fuzzy AHP technique; multi-criteria decision making problems; reverse logistics operation management; virtual enterprises; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Inventory management; Investments; Manufacturing; Mathematical model; Reverse logistics; Risk management; Uncertainty; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1311-9
DOI :
10.1109/WICOM.2007.1069