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Location, inventory and testing decisions in closed-loop supply chains: a multimedia company

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economía de la Empresaes
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zhi-Hai
dc.contributor.authorPan, Xiaoyong
dc.contributor.authorBerenguer Falguera, Gemma
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-22T13:16:22Z
dc.date.available2022-06-22T13:16:22Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-06
dc.description.abstractOur partnering firm is a Chinese manufacturer of multimedia products that needs guidance developing its imminent Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC). To study this problem, we take into account location, inventory, and testing decisions in a CLSC setting with stochastic demands of new and time-sensitive returned products. Our analysis pays particular attention to the different roles assigned to the reverse Distribution Centers (DCs) and how each option affects the optimal CLSC design. The roles considered are collection and consolidation, additional testing tasks, and direct shipments with no reverse DCs. The problem concerning our partnering firm is formulated as a scenario-based chance-constrained mixed-integer program and it is reformulated to a conic quadratic mixed-integer program that can be solved efficiently via commercial optimization packages. The completeness of the model proposed allows us to develop a decision support tool for the firm and to offer several useful managerial insights. These insights are inferred from our computational experiments using data from the Chinese firm and a second data set based on the U.S. geography. Particularly interesting insights are related to how changes in the reverse flows can impact the forward supply chain and the inventory dynamics concerning the joint DCs.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 71771135, 71371106 and 71332005.en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationZhang, Z.-H., Berenguer, G., & Pan, X. (2019). Location, inventory and testing decisions in closed-loop supply chains: A multimedia company. IISE Transactions, 51 (1), pp. 41-56.es
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2018.1494868
dc.identifier.issn2472-5854
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage41es
dc.identifier.publicationissue1es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage56es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleIISE Transactionses
dc.identifier.publicationvolume51es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/35231
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000029243
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherTaylor & Francises
dc.rights© The authorsen
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.ecienciaEmpresaes
dc.subject.otherClosed-loop supply chainen
dc.subject.otherConic quadratic mixedinteger programen
dc.subject.otherRole of reverse DCsen
dc.subject.otherChinese manufactureren
dc.titleLocation, inventory and testing decisions in closed-loop supply chains: a multimedia companyen
dc.typeresearch article*
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