The Study on Construction for Reverse Logistics Network of Waste Household Appliances

Abstract

This article proposes a model of reverse logistics network of waste household appliances. The reverse logistics network of waste household appliances includes raw factories, secondary markets, landfills, collection centers, and customer zones. The purpose of this study is to minimize the total cost of reverse logistics network. The total cost is composed of fixed cost, variable cost, transportation cost, and penalty cost. This model is a mixed integer linear programming model and a non-deterministic polynomial (NP) problem. In general, it is a difficult problem to solve. Genetic algorithm is used to deal with this problem. The results show that this problem can be well solved using genetic algorithm.