One usually thinks of logistics as an “outbound” activity, e.g. the physical distribution of finished products from factory to warehouse to retailer. A firm’s Logistics Information System (LIS) would thus generally be designed to support these outbound shipments. However, when a...

We study a supply planning problem in a manufacturing system with two stages. The first stage is a remanufacturer that supplies two closely-related components to the second (manufacturing) stage, which uses each component as the basis for its respective product. The used products are recovered...