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A Research on Closed-loop Supply Chain Network Design and Resilient Management Based on Patent Protection

  

  1. 1. School of Management,Wuhan Institute of Technology,Wuhan 430074, China;2. College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Online:2016-10-31 Published:2017-02-21

Abstract:

Due to problems in network design and resilient management of closed-loop supply chain, an integrative framework is established, integrating resilient member selection/pre-warning/manufacturing and recycle/resilient inventory operation/resilient congestion delay/resilient transportation. Then a competitive multisourcing network with resilient management is established based on a general operational model of supply chain. According to the potential risk of the various distributors' failure, a multiplesource closed-loop supply with resilient management is made use of. It is found that the benefit of manufacturer S1 with patent protection will be impacted by the change of multi-level expectation tolerance, but can be improved by the redesigned prewarning security.

Key words: network design, resilient operation, competitive manufacturers, patent protection