THE ROLE OF REVERSE LOGISTICS IN CREATING ADDED VALUE IN METALLURGY

1 KUŻDOWICZ Paweł
Co-authors:
1 RELICH Marcin 2 SANIUK Anna 3 VIDOVA Helena 1 WITKOWSKI Krzysztof
Institutions:
1 University of Zielona Gora, Faculty of Economics and Management, Zielona Gora, Poland, EU, p.kuzdowicz@wez.uz.zgora.pl, m.relich@wez.uz.zgora.pl, k.witkowski@wez.uz.zgora.pl
2 University of Zielona Gora, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Zielona Gora, Poland, EU, a.saniuk@iizp.uz.zgora.pl
3 Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Trnava, Slovakia, EU, helena.vidova@stuba.sk
Conference:
23rd International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, May 21 - 23, 2014
Proceedings:
Proceedings 23rd International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Pages:
1953-1958
ISBN:
978-80-87294-52-9
ISSN:
2694-9296
Published:
18th June 2014
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
Metrics:
375 views / 292 downloads
Abstract

The processes of reverse logistics in creating added value for producers in metallurgy are presented here. Steel Industry is the primary industry which plays important role on the national development and economy sustainability. This industry’s supply chain and logistics system is considered complex and appears to be part of other industries’ supply chain and logistics systems, such as infrastructure or automotive industries. The premise is the choice of reverse logistics for steel supply chain on the one hand, considering their versatile applications. On the other hand, an extremely important issue is that their production is characterized by high dynamics, has a significant impact on the environment, contributing significantly to the use of the valuable resource. This paper will focus on the economic and environmental optimization of reverse logistics processes in steel supply chain. The presented article is part of a research on developing application methods for the settlement of environmental-economic support for reverse logistics processes aimed at reducing consumption of energy and raw materials by metal manufacturers, which ultimately translates into added value in terms of so-called environmental benefits.

Keywords: Logistics, reverse logistics, recovery, steel supply chain

© 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.

Scroll to Top