Reverse Logistics: An Approach for Sustainable Development

Any firm’s sustainability performance can be enhanced through effective implementation of supply-chain and reverse logistics strategies. Although the reverse logistics concepts have been recognized to be very important in developing countries, however, the companies’ progress has been hampered owing to certain prevailing variables responsible for their sustainable developments. Thus, this study focused on identifying the associated variable(s) with reverse logistics practices in the bottle manufacturing companies in Odisha (India), and to rank those variables by using the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method. These research findings will provide a path to the professionals and other decision-makers in planning for suitable strategies in the reverse logistics-based performances in the manufacturing sectors.