Background: The remanufacturing plan of perfect cost makes reference to the remanufacturing plan of an optimal solution of the economic lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing (ELSR). In this paper, we address the problem of determining the quantities of the remanufacturing plan of perfect cost...

We address a production-remanufacturing planning problem of a single item with recovery targets stated as a lower bound on the numbers of returns that must be remanufactured. This problem can arise in practice if there are legal or market pressures. We show that this problem extension can be...