The consideration of environmental issues has emerged as a topic of critical importance for today’s globalized supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategic-tactical decision-support methodology to assist managers in evaluating the impact of environmental issues,...

Products which are sold through E-commerce or mail sales catalogues tend to have a much higher return rate than traditional products. The returns are especially problematic for seasonal products. To support decision making in these situations we study various options, which may be considered as...

In this paper, we study the adsorption of Ba on the Ni(110) surface at room temperature. The investigation takes place mainly by soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements. At low coverage (0.5 ML), the Ba adatoms are in a partially ionic state, whereas at higher coverage, the barium...

The adsorption of oxygen and potassium on the two-phase system: carbide-modified stepped-W(100) surface (CMT) in contact with the solid solution of carbon in bulk tungsten, was investigated by AES and WF measurements. The CMT surface shows metallic behavior judging from its interaction with K....

We describe hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing systems with a long lead time for manufacturing and a short lead time for remanufacturing. We review the classes of inventory strategies for hybrid systems in the literature. These are all based on equal lead times. For systems with slow...