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Dismantle or remanufacture?

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  • Guo, Shanshan
  • Aydin, Goker
  • Souza, Gilvan C.

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In this paper we study a firm’s disposition decision for returned end-of-use products, which can either be remanufactured and sold, or dismantled into parts that can be reused. We formulate this problem as a multi-period stochastic dynamic program, and find the structure of the optimal policy, which consists of monotonic switching curves. Specifically, if it is optimal to remanufacture in a given period and for given inventory levels, then it is also optimal to remanufacture when the inventory of part(s) is higher or the inventory of remanufactured product is lower.

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  • Guo, Shanshan & Aydin, Goker & Souza, Gilvan C., 2014. "Dismantle or remanufacture?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 233(3), pages 580-583.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:233:y:2014:i:3:p:580-583
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.09.042
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