A Centralized Inventory Policy for Open-Loop Reverse Supply Chain

摘要：

As an extension to Gou et al.(2006), this paper introduce a special inventory policy for the open-loop reverse supply chain, in which the centralized returns center(CRC) is authorized to manage the inventories at local contract point(LCP) location. To formulate the model, special technique has been used to translate the CRCs inventory and handling process into an E,/M/1/∞queueing system and thus the respective conclusions in queueing theory are utilized. Our purpose is to determine LCPs economical delivery batch and CRCs handling batch to minimize the long-run average cost. Sensitivity analyses are also presented.

关键词： Reverse supply chain Inventory management Queueing system

作者: Gou Qinglong Liang Liang Xu Xiping Xu Chuanyong

作者单位: School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, 230036, P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 165-174

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）