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Production Planning with Common Parts in Closed-Loop Supply Chains

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Operations Research Proceedings 2008

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Common parts in different product variants can lead to decreased procurement costs if recovery strategies are applied. Thereby new parts are substituted by recovered ones. Since long- or mid-term supplier contracts for these new parts exist demand as well as return forecasts are essentially to negotiate contracts. In this article forecasting issues are addressed and a planning procedure to calculate the need of new parts is given.

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Steinborn, J., Walther, G., Spengler, T.S. (2009). Production Planning with Common Parts in Closed-Loop Supply Chains. In: Fleischmann, B., Borgwardt, KH., Klein, R., Tuma, A. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2008., vol 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00142-0_10

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