We analyze a multi-echelon inventory system with inventory stages arranged in series. In addition to traditional forward material flows, used products are returned to a recovery facility, where they can be stored, disposed, or remanufactured and shipped to one of the stages to reenter the forward flow of material. This system combines the key elements of two simpler systems: the series system s...

This paper studies joint pricing and remanufacturing strategy of a firm that decides to offer both new and remanufactured versions of its product in the market. In making this decision, the firm balances the additional revenue from selling remanufactured products, the demand cannibalization of new product sales, and the cost of remanufacturing. We present the model of the firm’s decisions and c...

In this paper, a production inventory model is developed for the business enterprise which consists of three wings. The first wing is for manufacturing new items, the second wing is for collecting the returned items, while third wing is for remanufacturing the returned item. In this model we consider the fact that the storage item is deteriorated during storage periods and salvage value is inco...

We present a new concept for optimization under uncertainty: recoverable robustness. A solution is recovery robust if it can be recovered by limited means in all likely scenarios. Specializing the general concept to linear programming we can show that recoverable robustness combines the flexibility of stochastic programming with the tractability and performances guarantee of the classical robus...

We show that expander codes, when properly instantiated, are high-rate list-recoverable codes with linear-time list recovery algorithms. List recoverable codes have been useful recently in constructing efficiently listdecodable codes, as well as explicit constructions of matrices for compressive sensing and group testing. Previous list-recoverable codes with linear-time decoding algorithms have...

Firms engaged in remanufacturing activities generally adopt more than one recycling channel to collect more used products and gain more profits. This paper explores the optimal strategies for a retailer-dominated closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with a triple recycling channel in the construction machinery remanufacturing context. In this special system, the retailer is the leader and authorized...

This paper considers remanufactured products entering new markets without competing with prototype products, which we call non-competitive remanufacturing(NCR). Changes in the functionality of urge manufacturer to adopt a market diversification strategy, leads face barriers when industry. In this paper, study manufacturer's production and remanufacturing decisions NCR environment consider two s...

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 prevail. Furthermore, holding costs can be observed for all recovery states of the returned product....

Despite documented benefits of remanufacturing, many manufacturers have yet to embrace the idea of tapping into remanufactured-goods markets. In this paper, we explore this dichotomy and analyze the effect of remanufacturable product design on market segmentation and product and trade-in prices by studying a two-stage profit-maximization problem in which a price-setting manufacturer can choose ...