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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The return of newly manufactured items/materials has been estimated to
cost over $35 billion in the US and $137 billion worldwide. The flow of
returns is immediate from consumer side to the manufacturer side, a type
of reverse logistics. However, our focus is not on end-of-life products. We
present a strategic mixed integer programming model to find the most
efficient network morphology. The model also determines the most
profitable assignment of reverse logistics tasks to the supply chain
players who may include original equipment manufacturers, contract
manufacturers, and third party logistics service providers. We study the
sensitivity of these decisions to changes in parameter values using
problems faced by our industrial collaborators.
