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| Author: | Laan, E. van der Salomon, M. |
| Title: | Production planning and inventory control with remanufacturing and disposal |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research
1997 : OCT, VOL. 102:2, p. 264-278 |
| Index terms: | PRODUCTION PLANNING INVENTORY CONTROL MANUFACTURING PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE STATISTICAL METHODS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study extends the PUSH and PULL strategies defined to include the option of product disposal. A numerical study indicated that disposal may be effective since it reduces the variability in the system inventories. As a result the total expected system costs will be lower than in a system without disposals. The cost reducing effect may already be present when the return rate is much lower than the demand rate. Although the PUSH- and PULL-disposal strategy are conceptually rather simple, they are not very robust to changes in the demand and return rates which occur during the successive stages of the product life-cycle. As a consequence infrequent revision of the control parameters may lead to unnecessarily high system costs in practice. |
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