SPECIAL SECTION : CLOSED-LOOP SUPPLY CHAINS : PRACTICE AND POTENTIAL - Integrating Closed-Loop Supply Chains and Spare-Parts Management at IBM - An analytic inventory-control model and a simulation model show that savings in procurement costs from obtaining spare parts from returned products outweigh reverse logistics costs and show that information management is essential.
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2003
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| Authors: | Fleischmann, Moritz ; Nunen, Jo A.E.E.van ; Gräve, Ben |
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Interfaces : the INFORMS journal on the practice of operations research. - Linthicum, Md : INFORMS, ISSN 0092-2102, ZDB-ID 1207854. - Vol. 33.2003, 6, p. 44-56
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