Forecasting Product Returns for Remanufacturing Operations

Decision Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 589-614

  Clottey, Toyin ^a   Benton, W C ^b   Srivastava, Rajesh ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

and Remanufacturing.; Closed Loop Supply Chains; Inventory Management; Operations Forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863553389     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2012.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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