Subject 'Reverse Logistics'

Year:   2018/2019    2019/2020    2020/2021    2021/2022    2022/2023    

Reverse logistics definition, meaning and importance nowadays. Reverse logistics's activities. Managing the returns. Remanufacture, Managing the reverse logistics supply chain. Closed loop supply chains. Disposition and the secondary market. Reverse logistics and the environment. Waste management. The environmental, waste management, hazardous goods and packaging legislations in Estonia.

To present an overview and introduction to reverse logistics, and to provide insights on how to manage reverse logistics well.

* Knows the meaning of reverse logistics
* Knows how to manage the returns
* Understands, the meaning of Closed Loops Supply Chains, how to manage them, how to kontroll them
* Knows how to reduse the company's costs using reverse logistics

2 current tests on 8 and 16 learning week, it gives 70 % of the exam mark. The rest 30 % consists of exercizes, presentations and logistics companyŽs visitings, teamworks and all these are presumptions to the exam mark.
Exercises: Different exercises concerning reverse logistics and packaging. "Gate keeping" game, Closed loop supply chain simulation, Discussions.
Course paper: E-commerce returns, based on company's research; Postal service returns, The electronic commerce reverse logistics, based on company's research; Managing the reused goods. Value gain opportunities using reverse logistics, examples.
Presentations.
Visiting the logistics companies: It is not an obligatory but recommendable.
Solution of exercises, implemented course paper, presentations are part of the exam mark.

Reverse Logistics. Quantative models for Closed-Loop Supply Chains. Rommert Dekker, Moritz Fleishmann, Karl Inderfurth, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Springer, Berlin-2004. Going Backwards: Reverse Logistics Trends and Practices. Dr. Dale S. Rogers, Dr. Ronald S. Tibben-Lembke. Nevada, USA-1998. Logistika alused. Mall Villemi, TTÜ Kirjastus, Tallinn, 2008. Veoseohutus. Jüri Suursoo, Peter Vulla, TKTK kirjastus, Tallinn, 2007. Jahre, M. Packaging Logistics for Improving the Environment and Economics in the Value Chain // Packaging Logistic Review. Helsinki: Econpap Publications, vol 1, 2000.

Note: Minimum positive grade - "satisfying" (2).

2020: FOR*  LO*  OK*  

2019: FOR*  OK*  TL*  

2018: OK*  TL*  

2017: TL*  

2016: TL*  

2015: TL*  

2014: TL*  

2013: TL*  

2012: LI*  

2011: LI*  

2010: LI*  

2009: LI*  

2008: LI*  

2007: LI*  

2006: LI*  

* Optional subject