Environmental issues are a growing priority in supply chain management, which has heightened the interest in remanufacturing. A key attribute of a remanufacturing strategy is the division of labor in the reverse channel, especially whether the remanufacturing should be performed in-house or...

This paper analyses and provides insights into the time buffer size of a capacity constrained resource (CCR) with multiple parallel processes in the context of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). We describe the CCR as a finite multi-server queue, where the appropriate capacity size (including the...

A key attribute of a remanufacturing strategy is the division of labor in the reverse channel, especially whether remanufacturing is performed in-house or outsourced. We investigate this decision for a retailer who accepts returns of a remanufacturable product. Our formulation considers the cost...