Managing an assemble-to-order system with returns

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 144-159

  Decroix, Gregory A ^a   Song, Jing Sheng ^b,c   Zipkin, Paul H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Assemble to order; Environment; Product returns; Reverse logistics; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLE TO ORDER; BACKORDERS; BASE STOCK POLICY; COMPONENT BASED; COMPONENT COMMONALITY; COMPONENT LEVELS; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DEMAND INFORMATION; DESIGN LEVELS; ENVIRONMENT; FILL RATE; FINISHED PRODUCTS; INFINITE HORIZONS; LEAD TIME; MULTI-PRODUCT; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PRODUCT RETURNS; REVERSE LOGISTICS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; STOCHASTIC RETURN; TIME WINDOWS;

LOGISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67649989035     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1070.0209     Document Type: Article

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