Elif Kongar

Dr. Elif Kongar

Department of Technology Management, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, United States
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Academic Career Length

26Years (2001-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 March 2008 in Computers & Industrial Engineering
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TETuğba Efendigil
Tuğba Efendigil
SOSemih ONUT
Semih ONUT
Elif KongarElif Kongar
Elif Kongar

17 December 2005 in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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Elif Kongar
SGSurendra M. Gupta
Surendra M. Gupta

1 April 2021 in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
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GBGülçin Büyüközkan
Gülçin Büyüközkan
EMEsin Mukul
Esin Mukul
Elif KongarElif Kongar
Elif Kongar

1 July 2019 in Waste Management
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Gazi Murat DumanGazi Murat Duman
Gazi Murat Duman
Elif KongarElif Kongar
Elif Kongar
SGSurendra Gupta
Surendra Gupta

19 January 2020 in International Journal of Production Research
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OTOzden Tozanli
Ozden Tozanli
Elif KongarElif Kongar
Elif Kongar
SGSurendra Gupta
Surendra Gupta
Growing environmental awareness and widening extended producer responsibility have heightened the need for economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable business strategies levered by digital technologies. As an extension, various take-back policies focusing on product waste and recovery are put in place by the high-tech manufacturing industry. With an attempt to increase sales while ensuring the environmental sustainability of products, trade-in programmes that incentivize consumers to exchange used goods for new and most recent technology products became a value-adding strategy for businesses. Due to the high unpredictability in the quality of returned devices however, determining trade-in margins is a challenging task for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This inevitably reveals the need for incorporating intelligent technologies into the formation of manufacturing and logistics architectures to simultaneously preserve OEMs profitability and ensure the sustainable development of the closed-loop supply chain activities. With this motivation, this study presents the use of IoT-embedded products in a blockchain-enabled disassembly-to-order system to determine the optimal trade-in-to-upgrade policy. A discrete-event simulation model is developed to obtain the expected cost of the disassembly-to-order system. Optimal incentives for varying product qualities are then computed by utilising this cost in the trade-in policy model.

16 March 2012 in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
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AEAhmed ElSayed
Ahmed ElSayed
Elif KongarElif Kongar
Elif Kongar
SGSurendra M. Gupta
Surendra M. Gupta
TSTarek Sobh
Tarek Sobh