Logistics channels are usually designed to go one way-toward the customer. Moving goods in the other direction disrupts this flow, much like driving a car the wrong way on a one way street. The concept of symbiotic logistics offers insight into the solution or avoidance of problems associated with reverse logistics.
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Solving the Reverse Logistics Problem
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Journal of marketing theory and practice, Vol.2(2), pp.15-27