Managers always want to decrease the cost of the inventory system and increase the customers’ satisfaction. To access to the mentioned aim they should notice the different aspects of their inventory system to become successful in today competitive global marketing. In this research we model...

Purpose: We deal with the problem of the joint determination of optimal economic production quantity (EPQ) and optimal preventive maintenance (PM) for a system that can produce multiple products alternately. The objective is to find the optimal number of production cycles and the PM policy...

One of the critical parameters in reverse supply chain management is the increased variability of the quality condition of used, returned products. The volatile nature of returns' quality often dictates the establishment of quality assessment procedures and the development of technologies that...