Many inventory control studies consider either continuous review and continuous ordering, or periodic review and periodic ordering. Mixtures of the two are hardly ever studied. However, the model with periodic review and continuous ordering is highly relevant in practice, as information on the...

Intermittent demand items account collectively for considerable proportions of the total stock value of any organization. Forecasting the relevant inventory requirements constitutes a very difficult task and most work in this area is based on Croston’s estimator that relies upon exponentially...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of remanufacturing on capacity and production decisions. Inspired by the situation for a specific car company, we analyze a two-period model with manufacturing in both periods and the option in the second period to remanufacture products that are...