Future aspect of acquisition management in closed-loop supply chain

Figures & data

Table 1. ‘Top 10’ journals.

Journal	#	Share%
European Journal of Operational Research	9	15.78
Production and Operations Management	6	10.52
International Journal of Production Research	4	7.01
International Journal of Production Economics	3	5.26
Computers and Operations Research	2	3.50
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering	2	3.50
Applied Mathematical Modeling	2	3.50
Journal of Operations Management	2	3.50
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology	2	3.50
Resources Conservation and Recycling	1	1.75

Figure 1. Trend and number of relevant publications.

Figure 2. Content categories for a closed-loop supply chain.

Table 2. Summary of literature on network design and method of collection.

Content	Literature
Network design	Davis and Heineke (2005), Bernstein and Federgruen (2005), French and LaForge (2006), Schultmann, Zumkeller, and Rentz (2006), Sheu (2008), Pishvaee and Torabi (2010)
Method of collection	Krumwiede and Sheu (2002), Meade and Sarkis (2002), Savaskan, Bhattacharya, and Van Wassenhove (2004), Ko and Evans (2007), Webster and Mitra (2007). Hong and Yeh (2012), Cheng (2013)

Table 3. Summary of literature related to acquisition management.

Author(s)	Type of SC		Market demand		Supply		Collection		Inventory		Competition		New product	Remanufactured product	Solution approach
	DC	C	D	S	D	S	Direct	Indirect	D	S	Price	Service
Guide (2000)	Y		Y		Y		Y	Y					Y	Y	Empirical
Majumder and Groenevelt (2001)			Y		Y		Y				Y		Y	Y	Analytical
Guide and Van Wassenhove (2001)		Y	Y		Y									Y	Analytical
Ferrer (2003)	Y	Y		Y		Y	Y						Y	Y	Analytical
Guide, Teunter, and Van Wassenhove (2003)		Y	Y		Y		Y							Y	Heuristics
Kiesmuller, Minner, and Kleber (2004)		Y	Y		Y		Y		Y				Y		Analytical
Bakal and Akcali (2006)		Y	Y		Y		Y							Y	Analytical
Galbreth and Blackburn (2006)			Y	Y			Y							Y	Analytical
Ferguson and Toktay (2006)			Y		Y		Y				Y		Y	Y	Analytical
Webster and Mitra (2007)			Y		Y								Y	Y	Analytical
Wojanowski, Verter, and Boyaci (2007)		Y		Y			Y							Y	Analytical
Zikopoulos and Tagaras (2007)		Y		Y			Y							Y	Analytical
Aras and Aksen (2008)		Y	Y			Y	Y		Y					Y	Nested heuristic
Qu and Williams (2008)			Y		Y		Y		Y					Y	Analytical
Liang, Pokharel, and Lim (2009)				Y		Y	Y		Y					Y	Analytical
Galbreth and Blackburn (2010)			Y	Y	Y		Y							Y	Analytical
Kaya (2010)		Y	Y			Y			Y					Y	Analytical
Chen and Bell (2011)	Y			Y		Y		Y		Y			Y		Analytical
Jung and Hwang (2011)		Y	Y		Y						Y		Y	Y	Game theory
Li and Li (2011)	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y				Y		Y	Y	Analytical
Shi, Zhang, and Sha (2011a)		Y		Y	Y		Y		Y				Y		Analytical
Teunter and Flapper (2011)		Y	Y	Y	Y		Y							Y	Analytical
Wu (2012)		Y	Y		Y					Y	Y		Y	Y	Analytical
Gu and Gao (2012)	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y				Y			Y	Analytical
Shi, Zhang, and Sha (2011b)		Y		Y		Y	Y		Y				Y		Analytical
Xiong and Li (2012)		Y		Y		Y	Y		Y					Y	DP
Li, Li, and Saghafian (2013)		Y	Y		Y			Y					Y	Y	Analytical
Minner and Kiesmuller (2013)		Y	Y		Y		Y		Y				Y		PMP
Qiang et al. (2013)	Y			Y			Y							Y	Algorithm
Wei and Zhao (2013)	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y					Y	Y	Fuzzy theory
Bulmus, Zhu, and Teunter (2014)			Y	Y			Y				Y			Y	Game Theory
Jena and Sarmah (2014a)	Y	Y	Y			Y		Y			Y		Y	Y	Analytical

Abbreviations: DC – Decentralized, C – Centralized, D – Deterministic, S – Stochastic, DP = Dynamic programming, PMM – Pontrygian’s maximum principle.

Figure 3. Categorization of articles by research methodology.

Table 4. Summary of literature on CLSC driver.

Content	Literature
Production control and inventory management	Mahajan and van Ryzin (2001), Koh et al. (2002), Fleischmann, Kuik, and Dekker (2002), Fleischmann and Kuik (2003), Inderfurth (2005), Jayaraman (2006), Ketzenberg, Van der Laan, and Teunter (2006), Zhou et al. (2006), Choi, Hwang, and Koh (2007).

Table 5. Summary of literature on CLSC output.

Content	Literature
Pricing policy and competition	Majumder and Groenevelt (2001), Guide, Teunter, and Van Wassenhove (2003), Debo, Toktay, and Van Wassenhove (2005), Savaskan and Van Wassenhove (2006), Liang, Pokharel, and Lim (2009), Webster and Mitra (2007), Michaud and Llerena (2011), Ovchinnikov (2011), Chen and Chang (2012).
	Competition
	Majumder and Groenevelt (2001), Ferguson and Toktay (2006), Ferrer and Swaminathan (2006), Savaskan and Van Wassenhove (2006), Webster and Mitra (2007), Ovchinnikov (2011), Wei and Zhao (2013), Chen and Chang (2012), Gu and Gao (2012), Wu (2012)

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Filter type	Description	Result	Scopus, Google scholar, Informs, etc
Inclusion criteria	Peer-reviewed journal:
	Articles were identified during the database search
	Topic: remanufacturing, closed-loop supply chain Language: English Time Span: 2000–2014 Article type: All
Keywords	Acquisition, closed-loop supply chain, reverse supply chain, remanufacturing.
Keyword search	Total search selected online databases with the keywords defined above		100
	a. Article	49	74
	b. Review		2
	c. Conference review		4
	d. Conference paper	6	15
	e. Article in press	4	5
Consolidation	Consolidation of articles	20
	Articles contains at least one of the keywords
	First content analysis of the articles by defined criteria Relevance of content by subjecting all papers to a manual analysis of their abstract
Working Sample size		57
Content analysis	All papers in the working samples were completely read to identify their content
Final sample size		33

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