Logistics of reverse blood supply chain
- Autores: Jacek Szoltysek, Sebastian Twaróg
- Localización: Conradi Research Review, ISSN-e 1459-0980, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special issue: Selected papers from the 3rd Green Logistics Seminar, St. Petersburg, Russia), págs. 11-19
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In every economics activity (business) waste is generated by each major action from procurement to distribution. The reduction of this waste is a major goal of environmentally conscious business practices. Blood resources management as an activity haracterized by a higher social utility is not free from the waste generation and waste management problems.
The processes that are realized in the blood supply chain are always accompanied by waste. The aim of this paper is to identify potential wastes in the blood supply chain and to find the answer to the following question: How to minimize (or in ideal - avoid the formation) the amount of waste in the supply chain of blood? Presented considerations, such as those related to the method of waste avoidance / reduction, collecting, sorting and processing in accordance with the established hierarchy of management, are part of the scope of interest of reverse logistics � reverse blood supply chain.
