1. Describe three benefits to organizations when they control their reverse supply chain.
2. Describe three types of product returns and what consequences each one has.
3. Describe three ways that reverse supply chain activities create value for organizations.
4. Describe how nature's life cycle is the basis or rationale of the circular economy.
5. Describe three advantages of using shipping containers.
6. An American manufacturer sourcing foreign components has his goods shipped by containers from Indonesia to the port of San Francisco. Explain how switching to a liner that uses a transshipment port could impact his shipments.
7. A French producer of fresh cheese products is selling a total of 2,000 kilograms (less than a container load) of product to a large resort hotel chain in the United Kingdom. The hotel chain wants delivery directly to each of its five hotels once a week. What is the best transportation option for the cheese producer: ship, rail, truck or air? Provide at least two reasons why the option you select is the best.