[citation needed] He completed his Ph.D. in 1998 in the field of reverse logistics and subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and as a business consultant at Tebodin.
[citation needed] Between 2001 and 2005 Krikke worked as a project manager at CentER Applied Research and in 2005 he was appointed associate professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Business.
[6] Since 1994 Krikke has conducted research in the field of reverse logistics and specifically the Closed Loop Supply Chain and its relationship with Purchasing, Product Life Cycle Management and Sales & Marketing.
Mining companies invest in increasingly remote and politically dangerous areas or in the deep sea to reach ever scarcer reserves.
As an example Krikke mentions a large French car manufacturer that was notified by its sustainability officer that most of their factories are located in regions where water is scarce.
[9] Krikke studied the impact of a copier manufacturer's supply chain on the total carbon footprint of the product[10] and in the handling of end-of-life vehicles.