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Demand forecasts play a crucial role in modern enterprise management. However, the diversity and uncertainty of the economic environment often make it hard to produce accurate forecasting results, especially when historical data change dramatically and there rise similar or substituting products. This paper discusses how to handle the historical demand data, analyze the market share of similar products,...
The operation process for a class of closed-loop supply chain system with remanufacturing is considered. In this system, the manufacturer is in charge of reclaiming and re-disposal of the returned products. The remanufacturing costs like operation costs for disassembling collected product and refurbishing disassembled part, and disposal costs of disassembled part are all uncertain. Based on the early...
Plant location is one of the most important strategic decisions on supply chain design. Existing literature emphasize on qualitative factors such as transport costs, exchange rates, labor rates etc. While there are existing models that capture qualitative variables, there is limited research linking these variables with measures of the firm's operational competitiveness and performance measurement...
Strategic planning (also called designing) is a challenging aspect of a reverse supply chain network. To effectively satisfy drivers such as profitability, environmental regulations, and asset recovery, only the most economical used products must be reprocessed in only the recovery facilities that have the potential to efficiently reprocess them. Due to uncertainties in supply, quality, and reprocessing...
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