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Technical Note---Optimal Control Policy for Capacitated Inventory Systems with Remanufacturing

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  • Xiting Gong

    (Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong)

  • Xiuli Chao

    (Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109)

Abstract

This paper studies the optimal control policy for capacitated periodic-review inventory systems with remanufacturing. The serviceable products can be either manufactured from raw materials or remanufactured from returned products; but the system has finite capacities in manufacturing, remanufacturing, and/or total manufacturing/remanufacturing operations in each period. Using L -natural convexity and lattice analysis, we show that, for systems with a remanufacturing capacity and a manufacturing/total capacity, the optimal remanufacturing policy is a modified remanufacture-down-to policy and the optimal manufacturing policy is a modified total-up-to policy. Our study reveals that the optimal policies always give production priority to remanufacturing for systems with a remanufacturing capacity and/or a total capacity; but this priority fails to hold for systems with a manufacturing capacity.

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  • Xiting Gong & Xiuli Chao, 2013. "Technical Note---Optimal Control Policy for Capacitated Inventory Systems with Remanufacturing," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 61(3), pages 603-611, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:61:y:2013:i:3:p:603-611
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.2013.1168
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