Industrial Engineering Journal ›› 2012, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (6): 63-69.

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Coordination of Closed-Loop Remanufacturing Supply Chain with Stochastic and Flexible Demands

  

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China; 
    2. International Business College, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
  • Online:2012-12-31 Published:2013-01-15

Abstract: In this paper, a closedloop remanufacturing supply chain with pricesensitive stochastic demands is addressed. Such a supply chain can be operated under centralized decisionmaking mode with the manufacturer as Stackelberg leader and three decentralized usedproduct collection modes: manufacturer, retailer, and thirdparty collection. For such a supply chain, pricing policy and profit are analyzed under centralized and decentralized modes, respectively. Under centralized decisionmaking mode, a firstorder necessary condition for coordinating the supply chain is derived. Then, it is shown that, under decentralized decisionmaking mode, the supply chain can be perfectly coordinated by using a compound contract with total return policy, and sale rebate and penalty. In this way, winwin can be achieved. By comparison, it also shows that thirdparty collection cant be chosen by the manufacturer. Coordination sufficiency and efficiency are also analyzed. A numerical example is given to verify the proposed method.

Key words: closed-loop supply chain, remanufacturing, contract coordination, Stackelberg game