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Disposition Strategies within Value-Optimizing Returns Management

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This paper evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of selling returned goods to secondary markets or destroying them, focusing on value recovery, financial impact, resource requirements and branding implications. It then compares the solutions highlighting branding differences, degree of product control, financial impact and resource commitment. It concludes by recommending a multi-solution system to maximise value recovery.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1039)

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642-647

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1039.642

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October 2014

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Yi Wang*, A. M. Ringstrom

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Comparison Study, Product Return, Reverse Logistics, Waste Management

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