Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing

Souza, Gilvan C.; Smith, Robert H.

doi:10.1287/educ.1080.0040

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“…Recent examples include Choi et al (2007), Konstantaras and Papachristos (2007), Teunter et al (2008), Visich et al (2007), Zikopoulos and Tagaras (2007) and Zikopoulos and Tagaras (2008). The tutorial by Souza summarizes some of the key components of these models (Souza, 2008).…”

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Managing new and differentiated remanufactured products

Ferrer

Swaminathan

2010

European Journal of Operational Research

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Managing new and differentiated remanufactured products

Ferrer

Swaminathan

2010

European Journal of Operational Research

385

175

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“…Strategic decisions also drive most of the profits and environmental impacts. The reader interested in operational issues is referred to Lambert and Gupta (), Pochampally, Nukala, and Gupta (), and Souza () for reviews.…”

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confidence: 99%

Closed‐Loop Supply Chains: A Critical Review, and Future Research*

2012

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In this article, I present a review and tutorial of the literature on closed-loop supply chains, which are supply chains where, in addition to typical forward flows, there are reverse flows of used products (postconsumer use) back to manufacturers. Examples include supply chains with consumer returns, leasing options, and end-of-use returns with remanufacturing. I classify the literature in terms of strategic, tactical, and operational issues, but I focus on strategic issues (such as when should an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) remanufacture, response to take-back legislation, and network design, among others) and tactical issues (used product acquisition and disposition decisions). The article is written in the form of a tutorial, where for each topic I present a base model with underlying assumptions and results, comment on extensions, and conclude with my view on needed research areas.

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“…In the past decade a number of companies have implemented comprehensive remanufacturing programs. However, few guidelines are available to the practicing manager to aid in planning, controlling, and managing remanufacturing operations (Souza, 2008).…”

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Forecasting Product Returns for Remanufacturing Operations

Clottey¹,

Benton²,

Srivastava³

2012

Decision Sciences

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Driven by legislative pressures, an increasing number of manufacturing companies have been implementing comprehensive recycling and remanufacturing programs. The accurate forecasting of product returns is important for procurement decisions, production planning, and inventory and disposal management in such remanufacturing operations. In this study, we consider a manufacturer that also acts as a remanufacturer, and develop a generalized forecasting approach to determine the distribution of the returns of used products, as well as integrate it with an inventory model to enable production planning and control. We compare our forecasting approach to previous models and show that our approach is more consistent with continuous time, provides accurate estimates when the return lags are exponential in nature, and results in fewer units being held in inventory on average. The analysis revealed that these gains in accuracy resulted in the most cost savings when demand volumes for remanufactured products were high compared to the volume of returned products. Such situations require the frequent acquisition of cores to meet demand. The results show that significant cost savings can be achieved by using the proposed approach for sourcing product returns.

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Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing

Cited by 31 publications

References 67 publications

Managing new and differentiated remanufactured products

Managing new and differentiated remanufactured products

Closed‐Loop Supply Chains: A Critical Review, and Future Research*

Forecasting Product Returns for Remanufacturing Operations

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