As the trend towards more after sales services progresses through the industrial equipment industry, OEMs are now offering comprehensive service contracts in which they take full responsibility for the functioning of their customers’ machines. The growing responsibilities allow for more leeway...

Remanufacturing activities are gaining momentum in the manufacturing industry. Therefore, the need for optimized networks becomes more pressing. In this paper we take a profit maximization approach to simultaneously determine the optimal network and the delivery strategy to support...