In this paper, we give a rather complete analysis of the joint replenishment problem (JRP) under constant demands and continuous time. We first investigate several methods for bounding the optimal cycle time. Next we show that under certain restrictions on the input data the standard JRP can be...

In this study we investigate the desired level of recovery under various inventory control policies when the success of recovery is probabilistic. All the used and returned items go into a recovery process that is modelled as a single stage operation. The recovery effort is represented by the...