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Automotive industry, more specifically manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (CZ-NACE 29), is one of the most important sectors of the manufacturing industry both in the European Union and the Czech Republic. In 2014, the total waste generated in the EU-28 by all economic activities and households amounted to 2,503 million tons [1]; 21% of the annual industrial waste production can be attributed to the manufacturing industry. The article focuses on the proposal for methodology of product lifecycle management based on the principle of logistics management in the contemporary context of the circular economy concept. Analysing documents, the objective is to describe and evaluate logistics spiral of the product lifecycle in such a way that general methodology of precycling will be formulated in the stage of research and development, manufacturing consumption/use (application of preventive approaches and measures enabling and facilitating waste recycling) in the selected part of the manufacturing industry CZ-NACE 29. Application of the general methodology should be in the entire logistics chain, i.e., in all levels of supply chain simultaneously, in all strategies of companies so as to achieve both new forms of business activities and competitive advantage of the entire network organization and, consequently, every company. Meaning of drafted methodological framework is to define an optimal recycling rate from the point of sustainable development, material flow closing and waste recycling optimization. Thus, qualities of sustainability (sustainable supply chain management) and environment (green supply chain management) from the management of the logistics networks integrate into the global society conditions of circular economy.
Keywords: Process management, product, precycling, recycling, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), circular economy© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.