strategic decision of dual vs. single roll jointly with operational decisions of inventory and pricing during this transitional …

sustainability. An important class of such "reverse" goods flows has to do with remanufacturing (reman), which refers to activities … associated with product life-cycle demand and core supply), 2) difficulty with capacity planning for remanufacturing (while … remanufacturing activities. These difficulties are mostly attributable to limited visibility and higher levels of uncertainty in …

reuse is remanufacturing. Legislation trends, as evidenced in the European Union, are forcing manufacturers to take back and … put products back into the market, after remanufacturing. The remanufacturing may be done by either the manufacturer or a … approach to determine the returns of used products, as well as integrate it with an inventory model to enable production …

Manufacturers often face a choice of whether to recover the value in their end-of-life productsthrough remanufacturing … remanufacturing competition andanalyze two entry-deterrent strategies: remanufacturing and preemptive collection. We findthat a firm …

product recovery and remanufacturing strategy for a firm that can offer trade-in rebates to achieve price discrimination. We … also consider the effect of potential entry of third-party remanufacturers on the firm's recovery and remanufacturing …

remanufacturing. Our model constructs are based on detailed interviews with top managers from two leading competitors in the medium …-planning considerations—in particular, capacity, production, and inventory—together with environmental considerations that range from product …

perishable and non-perishable inventory. A very general class of demand functions is studied in this paper. We derive the optimal … sales are unobservable, with perishable inventory the optimal stocking factor is always at least as large as the one given … by the single-period model; whereas, if inventory is non-perishable, this result holds only under a strong condition …

We investigate the situation where a customer experiencing an inventory stockout at a retailer potentially leaves the … firm's market. In classical inventory theory, a unit stockout penalty cost has been used as a surrogate to mimic the … new consumers to the committed market and the setting of inventory levels. We establish conditions under which the firm …

levels and inventory targets. The purpose of this research is to examine factors that influence supply chain agility and … identify a cost-effective plan for achieving it. The first phase addresses the problem of identifying target inventory and … customer service levels based on regression analysis of historical data and financial analysis of inventory holding costs and …

We study inventory systems operating under an infinite-horizon, periodic-review base-stock control policy with … steady state probability of each inventory level and use this to find the optimal base-stock level in this setting. Moreover … distribution. Finally, for a two-location inventory system consisting of a single retailer supplied by a single distributor, whose …