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How to Control a Reverse Logistics System When Used Items Return with Diminishing Quality

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2017

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  • Imre Dobos

    (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

  • Grigory Pishchulov

    (The University of Manchester
    St. Petersburg State University)

  • Ralf Gössinger

    (University of Dortmund)

Abstract

We study an integrated production–inventory system that manufactures new items of a certain product and receives some of the used items back. These can be either remanufactured on the same production line or disposed of. Used items awaiting remanufacturing need to be held in stock. New and as-good-as-new items are kept in stock, from which the product demand is satisfied. Controlling such a system involves decisions with regard to disposal of used items, succession of manufacturing and remanufacturing operations, and the choice of respective lot sizes. Recent works have referred to settings assuming variation in quality of returned items and a limited number of remanufacturing cycles that an item can undergo. We seek to determine optimal lot sizing for such a system and derive sufficient conditions for an optimal policy to forego remanufacturing.

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  • Imre Dobos & Grigory Pishchulov & Ralf Gössinger, 2018. "How to Control a Reverse Logistics System When Used Items Return with Diminishing Quality," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Natalia Kliewer & Jan Fabian Ehmke & Ralf Borndörfer (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2017, pages 387-393, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-89920-6_52
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89920-6_52
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