期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
卷 28, 期 11, 页码 14156-14176出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11138-8
关键词
Reverse logistics; Grey system theory; DEMATEL; Implementation barriers; Pharmaceutical care process
资金
- Brazilian Ministry of Education - Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) [88882.346482/2019-01]
- Czech Science Foundation [GACR19-13946S]
This study identified the critical factors for successful implementation of reverse logistics in the Brazilian pharmaceutical care process, including management, collaboration, information technology, infrastructure, policy, financial and economic factors. End-of-life management practices were considered the most critical, while information technology was deemed the least critical. The study also found that end-of-life management practices and policy had the strongest causal relationship.
There is an increasing interest in product recovery, closed-loop supply chains, and reverse logistics (RL) for mitigating environmental impairment. Although RL is becoming a mandatory policy in developed countries, it is still in an embryonic stage in some industrial sectors of emerging economies. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) identify the critical factors to the successful implementation of RL in the Brazilian pharmaceutical care process (PCP) and (2) determine the cause-and-effect relationships among them. We use snowball sampling to select the relevant RL studies and deductive reasoning and classification to identify the critical factors and a grey decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to evaluate the cause-and-effect relationships among them. The study revealed management, collaboration, information technology, infrastructure, policy, financial and economic, end-of-life management practices, and logistic performance factors as the most relevant factors to the successful implementation of RL in the Brazilian PCP. The end-of-life management practices were identified as the most critical factor, and information technology was identified as the least critical factor. We further determined the end-of-life management practices and policy have the strongest casual relationship. The municipal PCP coordinators can use the findings of this study to formulate mitigating strategies to identify and eliminate barriers to the successful implementation of RL in the Brazilian PCP.
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