Circular supply/value chains development report

This deliverable is related to tasks 41 and 42Part A Report on best supply chain practices This report will present a detailed analysis of the best practices from industry in closed loop supply chain design as well as relevant concepts methodologies and standards It will provide the consortium with an overview of the stateoftheart in current supply chain methods that can contribute to the circular supply chain implementation identifying key methodological gaps and critical success factors for the implementation work This report together with the baseline reports from WP2 and WP3 will serve as basis for the design and optimization of demonstratorspecific circular valuesupply chains Part B This part of the report will focus on operational supply chain processes and elaborate the best feasible forward and reverse supply chain networks for the white good and the automotive parts demonstrator Where applicable simulation techniques will be used to support decision making Using casespecific scenarios the report will consider supply chain performance criteria such as materials management forecasting lot sizing inventory levels and transportation routes The impact of business model and product design configurations on circular supply chain performance will be analyzed which may include among others Endoflife design strategies reuse remanufacturing recycling on component module andor product level Length of product use phases Customer servicelevel agreements Product collection costThis deliverable will serve as input to infrastructure requirements of circular supply chains in D43 as well as for evaluation efforts in D44