Background: The remanufacturing plan of perfect cost makes reference to the remanufacturing plan of an optimal solution of the economic lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing (ELSR). In this paper, we address the problem of determining the quantities of the remanufacturing plan of perfect cost...

In the area of reverse logistics, remanufacturing has been proven to be a valuable option for product recovery. In many industries, each step of the products' recovery is carried out in lot sizes which leads to the assumption that for each of the different recovery steps some kind of fixed costs...

The remanufacturing industry as a whole and the automotive sector in particular have, over the years, proven to be beneficial to the environment and economically lucrative to the companies involved as well as to their customers. However, remanufacturing is associated with complicating...

We address the economic lot sizing problem with product returns and remanufacturing. For this problem we provide a new theoretical result about the form of the optimal solutions that can be considered a generalization of the well-known zero-inventory property. Based on this result we suggest an...

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...

Unlike consumer durable goods, high technology products have shorter life cycles. Many companies launch new items at a fast rate of innovation. As a result, the latest products often compete in the same market with earlier-generation products. In addition to brand-new products, used products...

With the fast development and frequent changes of the engineering products, natural resources are arbitrary exploited and the environment is used without repayment, which causes many problems of great magnitude such as zoology damaged all over the globe, resource waste and depletion,...

By definition, a remanufactured product must perform to the same (or higher) level as the original product, and must therefore be issued a warranty of the same (or longer) duration. However, many components of remanufactured products will have been subjected to regular stresses in their first...

This research deals with pricing decisions in a closed-loop supply chain constituted by a manufacturer, two retailers and the end consumers. The manufacturer is assumed to be the Stackelberg leader while one of the retailers engages in collecting activities. In this paper, we consider collecting...

Over the past three decades, practitioners and researchers in engineering and operations sciences have focused on disassembly planning as a way to increase profitability of re-manufacturing, recycling and disposal processes for end-of-life products. An important task in disassembly planning is...