Linda Li , Chief Strategy Officer at Li Tong Group , said : “ What ’ s commonly understood as reverse supply chain is divided into two parts of postconsumer and recycling . How to take back consumer returns , defects and end of life products is a growing market . Because of these proliferation of devices and upgrading habits there ’ s also now a trade-in / upgrades market where they are not end of life products but are second hand and still usable .
“ Another big part of a high tech reverse supply chain is postindustrial recovery . OEMs are under constant pressure to release new products so the cycles are forever getting shorter , and as you can imagine OEMs have very complex international supply chain networks .”
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