Mapping Order Processing In Circular Production: Development Of A Systematic Literature Review-Based Morphological Box

Increased resource scarcity and sustainability regulations urge manufacturing companies to shift from linear to circular value creation. Circular production facilitates the dissociation of resource consumption from the provision of high-value products. Circular production is implemented by R-strategies, representing various strategies to circulate a product's material. Introducing R-strategies implies changes for the configuration of companies’ order processing. This paper examines the constitutive features and their respective specifications for order processing in circular production. Based on an extension of linear order processing to include sub-processes relevant to circular production, a systematic literature review (SLR) is carried out. The features and specifications identified in the SLR are then clustered, refined and completed. The developed morphological box provides an overview of the main design decisions and options available to companies for designing order processing in circular production.