Lot Sizing Decisions in Product Recovery Management

Minner, Stefan; Lindner, Gerd

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24803-3_7

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“…Traditional supply chain management commonly distinguishes inventories according to their supply chain function, such as cycle stock, seasonal stock, and safety stock. All of these functions also play a role in the extended supply chain [80]. Moreover, inventories assume an additional role in this context, which is driven by the mismatch between exogenous supply and demand.…”

Section: Inventory Control and Coordination Issues In Rsccmentioning

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Ahmed¹,

Banerjee²,

Bos³

et al. 2010

Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine

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Section: Inventory Control and Coordination Issues In Rsccmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ahmed¹,

Banerjee²,

Bos³

et al. 2010

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“…The optimum policies for procurement and refurbishment developed in this work have been the basis for many future works since the area of reverse logistics has evolved into an important field of research in the mid1990s (e.g. Richter 1996a, b;Teunter 2001;Minner and Lindner 2004). The model used in this article is based on the general reverse logistics model presented by Minner and Lindner (2004) and is adapted in order to analyze the impact of RFID on container logistics systems (cf.…”

Section: Reverse Logistics Inventory Modelsmentioning

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“…Richter 1996a, b;Teunter 2001;Minner and Lindner 2004). The model used in this article is based on the general reverse logistics model presented by Minner and Lindner (2004) and is adapted in order to analyze the impact of RFID on container logistics systems (cf. Minner andLindner 2004 andSchrady 1967 for the basic model).…”

Section: Reverse Logistics Inventory Modelsmentioning

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The impact of RFID on management of returnable containers

2009

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Inventory shrinkage is a common problem in the management of returnable containers. RFID-based container tracking systems have been proposed as a possible solution. Benefits of RFID-based tracking of returnable transport items such as pallets, kegs and boxes are documented in several case studies, but have so far hardly been analyzed from a theoretical perspective. In this article, we analyze the impact of RFID on container management using a deterministic inventory model. The analysis focuses firstly on inventory control for which we deduce changes due to RFID for the optimum policy. We then turn to the profitability of the RFID system and determine relevant relations of costs and benefits. Finally we analyze alternatives of implementing an RFID-based container tracking system. These alternatives are analyzed with respect to diffusion speed and profitability.

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“…Our work seeks to address this need. Of the studies surveyed by Akçalı and Çetinkaya (2011), the work most closely related to ours is that which assumes a single-product control over an infinite horizon with constant demand and return rates and perfect substitution between manufactured and remanufactured products (see Section 4.1 in Akçalı and Çetinkaya 2011 as well as Section 7.2 in Minner and Lindner 2004). The studies by Richter (1996a, b) in particular investigated a two-stage system in an EOQ-like setting with inventories of new and used products, and sought to determine an optimal centralised control policy in terms of lot size, number of manufacturing and remanufacturing batches per order cycle, and the product reuse rate, while assuming an infinite production rate for both manufacturing and remanufacturing (the latter assumption is also shared by other researchers; see, for example, Schrady 1967, Teunter 2001.…”

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“…We have therefore adopted this earlier model to represent the reverse channel in the closed-loop setting, as it directly matches the assumptions of the conventional joint economic lot size model of a forward supply chain, which serves as a reference model for our study (see below). In doing so, however, we also depart from the assumption of infinite production rates of manufacturing and remanufacturing that Richter (1994) made, and assume instead that both rates are finite, an assumption that is also made in much of the other work (Dobos and Richter 2004, Minner and Lindner 2004, Teunter 2004, Konstantaras and Skouri 2010, Jaber and El Saadany 2011. While these studies refer to more general control policies than we do, they still assume either a single-stage system or a fixed return rate of used products, or both.…”

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A vendor–purchaser economic lot size problem with remanufacturing

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In this paper, we study a closed-loop supply chain in which a single purchaser orders a particular product from a single vendor and sells it on the market. A certain fraction of used items return from the market back to the purchaser, who is responsible for collecting and returning them to the vendor. In addition to manufacturing new items, the vendor is able to remanufacture the returns into as-good-as-new items which are subsequently used to serve market demand. Our framework features the conventional joint economic lot size (JELS) model extended to include the return flow of the used items. In line with the assumptions of the JELS model, we assume a deterministic constant demand for the product. The fraction of used items returning from the market is assumed to depend on the purchaser's collection effort. To stimulate the returns, the vendor may offer the purchaser a transfer payment per item returned. The questions addressed by this study pertain to the optimal centralised control of this closed-loop supply chain, to the individually optimal policies of its members, and to the coordination within this supply chain under a decentralised control. In particular, we show that the transfer payment alone cannot coordinate the supply chain under consideration and may even fail to do so when combined with a two-part tariff -which is otherwise known to coordinate the corresponding forward supply chain. Our numerical study, though, has revealed that the combined contract is capable of substantially reducing the coordination deficit. We also introduce a novel three-part tariff which is shown to enable supply chain coordination in combination with the transfer payment.

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Lot Sizing Decisions in Product Recovery Management

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