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...

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...

We study competition between an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and an independently operating remanufacturer (IO). Different from the existing literature, the OEM and IO compete not only for selling their products but also for collecting returned products (cores) through their acquisition...