Product remanufacturing and disposal: A numerical comparison of alternative control strategies

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 489-498

  Van Der Laan, Erwin ^a   Dekker, Rommert ^a   Salomon, Marc ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disposal; Markov chains; Production planning and inventory control; Re order point and disposal point strategies for inventory control; Remanufacturing; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

PRODUCT REMANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION PLANNING; RE ORDER POINT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0030205950     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-5273(95)00137-9     Document Type: Article

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