Look For A Life Beyond Life. An Insight Into Closed Loop Remanufacturing

      Аннотация: Manufacturing businesses have gone through a sea change. Customers have become more demanding with price. Focus today is on creating value throughout supply chain through personalised offerings. Highest quality with lowest cost has become the mantra today. Seamless management of links is getting more complex with advent of globalization. Original equipment suppliers of auto parts were closing their shutters owing to competitive pressure. Imposition of laws to take back products added to their woes.Survival in the twenty first century was doubtful. Twenty first century saw dramatic improvement of IT and manufacturers added values by re-manufacturing their own/third party products.It protected their business as well as technology. Re-manufacturing saved material, part, energy and reduced landfill. Closing of supply chain integrating forward and reverse chains seemed to be best solution to survive and grow! In this book, Dr. Bhattacharya integrates industry examples and analyses various single/multistage models.The book provides rationales, new methods and direction for achieving an efficient closed loop chain in re-manufacturing for original equipment supplier.

Ключевые слова: closed loop supply chain, Maximization, Normal distribution, remanufacturing, Reverse Supply Chain, transfer price, External/Internal return, Acquisition price, Selling price, Non-linear optimization