Strategic Management of Product Recovery Case Solution
A growing concern for long-lasting merchandise makers is the best way to handle the products they make when they achieve their end of life (EOL). In part, this focus is prompted by an increasing variety of states across Europe and East Asia that are enacting laws that inflicts greater obligations for handling their EOL products on manufacturing companies. Even in merchandise retrieval, some producers are nevertheless participating in controlled markets to reduce production costs, improve brand image, satisfy shifting customer expectations, shield aftermarkets, and preempt pending laws or regulations. This note sheds light on when manufacturing companies should participate in merchandise recovery efforts through coalitions, partnerships, or vertical integration and when they should leave this job to independent companies. Technologies that improve the productivity of merchandise recovery, the degree of uncertainty related to reverse logistics, varied fabricating-related abilities, the singularity of recovered advantages and the need to prevent reliance on other organizations are crucial determinants that shape the industrial organization of EOL merchandise restoration.
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PUBLICATION DATE: February 01, 2004
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