This study presents a cost optimisation model for multi-variety (or multi-type) Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS). A linear analytical model is formulated which minimises the total reverse logistics costs for multi-variety Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS) subjected...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

Bei dem ifo Konjunkturtest Verarbeitendes Gewerbe werden auch Aspekte der Lagerhaltung und des Auftragsbestands abgefragt. Der Artikel wirft einen Blick auf diese Variablen und den Zusammenhang zwischen diesen. Es zeigt sich, dass auf oberster aggregierter Ebene das Fertigwarenlager und der...

We consider a problem of dynamic replenishment of parts in the supply chain consisting of single class of customers, company, and supplier. Customers request a service via the WEB-based ordering system and the company supports service using parts which are procured from the supplier. The...

Models of money demand, in the Baumol (1952)-Tobin (1956) tradition, describe optimal cash management policy in terms of when and how much cash to withdraw, an (s, S) policy. However, today, a vast array of instruments can be used to make payments, opening additional ways to control cash...

We consider a problem of dynamic replenishment of parts in the supply chain consisting of single class of customers, company, and supplier. Customers request a service via the WEB-based ordering system and the company supports service using parts which are procured from the supplier. The...

The improvement of supply chain systems leaded to the application of different inventory strategies. One of the most flexible inventory strategy is the just in time based just-in-sequence inventory strategy, especially in the case of flexible assembly lines. Flexible assembly lines are used in...

In this article, we discuss ways of actively influencing product returns and we review data-driven methods for forecasting return flows that exploit the fact that future returns are a function of past sales. In particular we assess the value of return forecasting at an operational level,...

This paper evaluates the impact of misinformation for inventory systems with product returns. If one could exactly know how much is going to be returned and when, one would certainly benefit from incorporating this perfect information a priori in the management of production, inventory, and...

Ever more companies are recognizing the benefits of closed-loop supply chains that integrate product returns into business operations. IBM has been among the pioneers seeking to unlock the value dormant in these resources. We report on a project exploiting product returns as a source of spare...