Aide à la décision pour la conception d’une chaine logistique inverse pour l’aluminium

Reverse logistics have recently been of interest to companies in order to achieve a certain level of sustainability and ecology sometimes imposed by legislation. Reverse logistics concerns all activities that intervene directly or indirectly to move the end-of-life product to the start of its logistics chain. In this article, we propose a methodology for the design of reverse logistics. We also present a case study within the framework of the European project Suplight. This project aims to develop or identify the tools and methods necessary to produce parts for the automotive and aeronautic industries using 75% recycled aluminum. Using aluminum for these parts reduces their weight, and using recycled aluminum helps to be more efficient from an environmental point of view. The challenge is to design reverse logistics to recover recycled aluminum with an adequate chemical composition for the production of aeronautical or automotive structural parts.