Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach

Recovery of returned products is an emerging field, which has received increased attention from environmental as well as economic point of view. They help reduce the harmful impact of the industry on the environment by engaging in material recycling, reducing energy consumption and the need for land...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jain, Vani
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23913/
_version_ 1848792657683283968
author Jain, Vani
author_facet Jain, Vani
author_sort Jain, Vani
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
collection Online Access
description Recovery of returned products is an emerging field, which has received increased attention from environmental as well as economic point of view. They help reduce the harmful impact of the industry on the environment by engaging in material recycling, reducing energy consumption and the need for landfill space. Businesses are finding it an attractive investment because it is highly profitable for the company as, it not only adds to the ‘green image’ of the company, which the company can use as a marketing tool to attract and retain environmentally conscious customers, but also companies can use discarded products as a valuable source of components and materials and hence reducing waste. A firm operating a recoverable product system relies on the return of used products as a basic input (raw material) to a reuse system and hence remanufacturing requires a continuous flow of used products. This highlights the importance of having efficient product acquisition management system. In this report we try to investigate how product acquisition choices affect the rate of return of used products and its impact on the economic value recovered from the remanufacturing system by using analytical models. This report also attempts to compare the percentage cost improvement between open and closed loop supply chains.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T18:47:53Z
format Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
id nottingham-23913
institution University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-14T18:47:53Z
publishDate 2010
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling nottingham-239132018-01-25T05:17:09Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23913/ Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach Jain, Vani Recovery of returned products is an emerging field, which has received increased attention from environmental as well as economic point of view. They help reduce the harmful impact of the industry on the environment by engaging in material recycling, reducing energy consumption and the need for landfill space. Businesses are finding it an attractive investment because it is highly profitable for the company as, it not only adds to the ‘green image’ of the company, which the company can use as a marketing tool to attract and retain environmentally conscious customers, but also companies can use discarded products as a valuable source of components and materials and hence reducing waste. A firm operating a recoverable product system relies on the return of used products as a basic input (raw material) to a reuse system and hence remanufacturing requires a continuous flow of used products. This highlights the importance of having efficient product acquisition management system. In this report we try to investigate how product acquisition choices affect the rate of return of used products and its impact on the economic value recovered from the remanufacturing system by using analytical models. This report also attempts to compare the percentage cost improvement between open and closed loop supply chains. 2010-09-21 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23913/1/Final_doc.pdf Jain, Vani (2010) Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Jain, Vani
Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title_full Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title_fullStr Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title_full_unstemmed Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title_short Product Acquisition Strategies: An Analytical Approach
title_sort product acquisition strategies: an analytical approach
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23913/