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Free MIT Course: Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Examine sustainability within supply-chain decisions through reverse logistics, carbon footprints, life-cycle analysis and stakeholder engagement. These selected lectures focus on evaluating consequences across a product's wider system.

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Lecture 3: Reverse Logistics and Closing the Loop

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Suggested preparation: Introductory supply-chain or operations knowledge.

About this course

Examine sustainability within supply-chain decisions through reverse logistics, carbon footprints, life-cycle analysis and stakeholder engagement. These selected lectures focus on evaluating consequences across a product's wider system.

Course at a glance

Provider MIT
Platform YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare
Access Free Video
Level Intermediate — WikiFree study-level assessment
Language English
Available lessons 6
Video duration 7h 24m · self-paced
Details checked 10 October 2026

Preparation and study approach

Suggested preparation: Introductory supply-chain or operations knowledge.

Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.

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The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.

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