Ahiska, S. Sebnem; King, Russell E. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 124 (2010) 1, pp. 51-61
This paper investigates the optimal inventory policies over the life cycle of a remanufacturable product. The product is produced through manufacturing or remanufacturing. Benefiting from the long-run optimal policies found through Markov decision analysis, the optimal or near-optimal policy...