Random yields from production are often present in manufacturing systems and there are several ways that this can be modeled. In disassembly planning, the yield uncertainty in harvesting parts from cores can be modeled as either stochastically proportional or binomial, two of these alternatives....

Product recovery management, where firms take products back from customers at the end of their use, has received increasing attention due to the push towards sustainability in operations management. The firm has several options as to what can be done with the returned products, one of which is...