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...

An important difference between both manufacturing and wholesaling vs. retail is the information available concerning inventory. Typically, far less information characterizes retail. Here, an extreme environment of information shortfall is examined. The environment is technically termed...

Inventory policies for joint remanufacturing and manufacturing have recently received muchattention. Most efforts, though, were related to (optimal) policy structures and numericaloptimization, rather than closed form expressions for calculating near optimal policy parameters.The focus of this...

We describe hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing systems with a long lead time for manufacturing and a short lead time for remanufacturing. We review the classes of inventory strategies for hybrid systems in the literature. These are all based on equal lead times. For systems with slow...