Simple heuristics for push and pull remanufacturing policies

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1084-1102

  van der Laan, Erwin A ^a   Teunter, Ruud H ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Inventory control; Remanufacturing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

INVENTORY POLICIES; NEAR-OPTIMAL POLICY PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION; REMANUFACTURING;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 33748427540     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.030     Document Type: Article

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