Reverse Logistics has been stretching out worldwide, involving all the layers of supply chains in various industry sectors. While some actors in the chain have been forced to take products back, others have pro-actively done so, attracted by the value in used products One way or the other,...

Products, components, materials and other equipment stream forward andback wards and back in their supply chains. Reverse Logistics dealswith the processes associated with the reverse stream fromusers/owners to re-users. This paper provides a review and contentanalysis of scientific literature...

In this paper we extend the PUCH and PULL control strategies defined in Van der Laan et al. (1995) to evaluate empirically the effect of lead-time duration and lead-time variability on total expected costs in production/inventory systems with remanufacturing