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 explore the value of information in the context of a remanufacturer that faces uncertainty with respect to demand, product return, and product recovery (yield loss). We assume a single period model in which the operational decision of interest is the quantity of new product to order. Our...

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...