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Profits Management for Reverse Supply Chain with Supply Disruption
Authors: Gu Qiaolun, Gao Tiegang

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In reverse supply chain under our study, there are four supply disruptions. As the source of the reverse
supply chain, the supply disruption of used-products between end-consumers and collector will largely affect the
profits of the reverse supply chain. In order to manage the profits of the reverse supply chain, we give an expanded
stock-flow diagram with this supply disruption of the reverse supply chain by using system dynamics methodology,
show the simulation results of collector’s profit, disassembly center’s profit, remanufacturer’s profit and the mean of
their profits under different disruption periods. By analyzing the simulation results, we present a strategy to ensure the
members positive profits. The strategy is adding another channel of purchasing used-products for the collector. We
show the simulation results of the members profits and their mean after using the strategy, and give the suitable range
of purchase quantity of used-products for the strategy.