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Reversible Supply Chain in Agricultural Production

Abstract: The Supply Chain (SC) represents the flow of goods, services and information from raw material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers to the end-customers. The flow of goods, services and information enables transportation. Small producers, especially family farms, have recently opted to avoid intermediaries in transporting and distributing the products to the end-customer. The reason is to increase the quality of their products and competitiveness by eliminating the costs of intermediaries in transport and distribution. This is achieved by merging and shortening the SC. The market situation requires further optimization by producers due to lack of labour force and the need to increase competitiveness and leads to the emergence of a Reversible Supply Chain (RVSC) phenomenon which differs from the reverse SC. There is a problem in how the end-customer comes to the consumable product, since the producer is unable to provide distribution directly or through the intermediary. Explanation of how to solve this problem by modelling a brand new SC in which there is no classical distribution is the fundamental goal of this work. In the paper, the author, by applying scientific methods, researches the genesis of RVSC as a main output of this research.

supply chain ; reversible supply chain ; logistic

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