Business Perspectives
on Closed-Loop Supply Chains
Sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch
Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA USA
Participation is by invitation only.
30 May - 2 June 2001
Closed-loop supply chains are supply
chains that are designed to consider the acquisition and return
flows of products, reuse activities, and
the distribution of the recovered products, in addition to
traditional forward flows of materials and goods. Key activities
include:
· Product acquisition
· Reverse logistics
· Test, sort, and grade
· Recondition (remanufacture)
· Distribution
This workshop focuses on the business
aspects of closed-loop supply chains. This workshop aims to
provide a forum where theory and state-of-the-art practice
are brought together for mutual understanding. The desired
outcome is a better understanding of the business aspects
of the design, management and control of closed-loop logistics
systems from the perspectives of research and industry needs.
To achieve this goal, working groups
will be formed in a variety of topical areas to discuss current
theory and industry issues. We hope to promote the formation
of academic, industry, and funding agency partnerships.
The functional areas and invited experts
include:
| Topic |
Author(s) |
| Contracts/channel coordination |
Charles Corbett (UCLA) &
Canan Savaskan (Northwestern University) |
| Design engineering |
Chris Hendrickson (CMU) |
| Forecasting (product returns) |
Beril Toktay (INSEAD) |
| Inventory |
Erwin van der Laan (Erasmus
University) &
Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University) |
| Information technology |
Jo van Nunen (Erasmus University)
&
Harold Krikke (Erasmus University) |
| New market development |
TBA |
| Product acquisition |
Luk N. Van Wassenhove (INSEAD)
&
V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr. (Duquesne
U.) |
| Production planning and control |
Karl Inderfurth (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität)
& Ruud Teunter (Erasmus University) |
| Recovery strategies |
Simme Douwe Flapper (Eindhoven
University) |
| Reuse and technology diffusion |
Jonathan Linton (Polytechnic
University) &
Shantanu Bhattacharya (INSEAD) |
| Reuse economics |
Geraldo Ferrer (UNC - Chapel
Hill) |
| Reverse logistics practice |
Ron Tibben-Lembke & Dale
Rogers (U. Nevada-Reno) |
| RL Network structures and design |
Moritz Fleischmann (Erasmus
University) |
Workshop Program
Day Time Activity
Wednesday, 30 May 2001, 7:00 PM - 9:00
PM Reception and dinner
Thursday, 31 May 2001, 9:00 AM
- 5:00 PM Presentations
and working group breakouts
Friday, 1 June 2001, 9:00 AM -
5:00 PM
Presentations and working group breakouts
Saturday, 2 June 2001, 9:00 AM
- 12:00 Noon Presentations by
working groups
A complete version, including times
and a complete list of industry, academic, and funding agency
representatives, of the workshop program will be available
on the web. Attendees will be sent the web address after the
program is finalized.
A light breakfast and lunch will be
served each day during the workshop. Dinner will be provided
Wednesday night and Friday night.
Industry Participants (tentative)
|
Bosch
|
Nortel
|
|
Lucent Technology
|
Xerox Europe
|
|
Ford
|
IBM
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Hotel Accommodations
Provided at no cost for each of the
invited workshop attendees at the Holiday
Inn - University Center. The
hotel is within walking distance of Carnegie
Mellon University campus.
Registration fees
None. Each attendee's on-site expenses (excepting incidentals)
will be paid for by the grant from
the Carnegie Bosch Institute.
Deadline
This workshop is by invitation
only. If unforeseen circumstances arise that will
prevent an invited participant from attending, they must contact
the workshop chair immediately, so arrangements can be made
for another person to attend and avoid unnecessary expenses
involved in no-shows.
Workshop Organizing Committee
Workshop Chairman and Organizer:
V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr.
Duquesne University, USA
Workshop Co-Chairman: Luk N. Van
Wassenhove
INSEAD, France
Workshop Sponsor:
Carnegie Bosch Institute
Michael Trick, President
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Additional Support:
School of Business Administration
James Stalder, Dean
Duquesne University, USA
Book
The workshop will produce
book consisting of chapters written by the functional experts
listed above. The working groups will each produce short summaries
of the key research needs for each of the areas to be included
as part of the text. Each workshop attendee will be given
a copy of the book at no cost. The editorial team for the
book is:
V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr. (Duquesne
University)
Charles Corbett (UCLA)
Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University
Rotterdam)
Luk N. Van Wassenhove (INSEAD)
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