Implementation of end of life vehicle regulation in India

Abstract

End of Life (ELV) regulation is an important reverse logistic application in Automobile industry.Most of the company’s time and effort is usually spent in fine tuning its forward logisticsprogram. Very few companies stress upon efficiency of reverse logistic and try to accommodatein the forward logistic infrastructure with some changes. In recent year due to intensecompetition among all sectors companies are trying as hard as possible to achieve maximumoperational efficiency. They have realized the importance of reverse logistics and how it is alsoimportant from improving profitability point of view. Another important factor contributing todevelopment of reverse logistics is the growing consciousness among people aboutenvironment and also Government regulations which entails proper disposal of waste andhence development of reverse logistics network to ensure proper disposal of the old discardedproducts. Before we talk about ELV we would like to discuss some aspects of Reverse Logisticsfirst.Contrary to populous perception reverse logistic is not a waste logistics. Council of LogisticsManagement (CLM), USA, states that the term ‘Reverse Logistic’ is often used to refer to therole of logistics in recycling, waste disposal, and management of hazardous materials. Abroader perspective includes all activities relating to logistics carried out in source reduction,recycling, substitution, reuse of materials and disposal which leads to perception of it being awaste logistics which is not the case. Reverse Logistic actually concerns with activitiesassociated with the handling and management of equipment, products, components, materialsor even entire technical systems to be recovered.