We consider the final order problem of a spare parts provider who faces customer demands and receives product returns. The returns can be remanufactured for reuse, or can be disposed. There are forecasts for both demands and returns over the remainder of the product life. We consider an...

This paper presents a typology and classifies the literature on inventory models with multiple sourcing options. The categories for classification include the number of considered echelons, the source of uncertainty, the model structure, as well as the general research approach. By means of the...

We consider an economic order quantity model where the supplier offers an all-units quantity discount and a price sensitive customer demand. We compare a decentralized decision framework where selling price and replenishment policy are determined independently to simultaneous decision making....

Storage assets are critical for temporal trading of commodities under volatile prices. State-of-the-art methods for managing storage such as the reoptimization heuristic (RH), which are part of commercial software, approximate a Markov decision process (MDP) assuming full information regarding...