Firms currently operate in highly competitive scenarios, where the environmental conditions
evolve over time. Many factors intervene simultaneously and their hard-to-interpret …

In this paper, we design and optimise an integrated five-level Supply Chain (SC), which
contains a supplier, a producer, a wholesaler, multiple retailers, and a collector. Accordingly …

Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is to have world-class
operations management in any organisation. In the past, where organisations tended to be …

Recent years have witnessed companies abandon traditional open-loop supply chain
structures in favour of closed-loop variants, in a bid to mitigate environmental impacts and …

Remanufacturing practices in closed-loop supply chains (CLSCs) are often characterised by
highly variable lead times due to the uncertain quality of returns. However, the impact of …

Batching is a well-known cause of the bullwhip effect. Despite being very common in many
industries to leverage economies of scale, it has been little explored due to its nonlinear …

Abstract The Bullwhip Effect manifests itself in the form of an increased order and inventory
variability in the uppermost nodes of the supply chain. This dynamic phenomenon is not yet …

The closed-loop dynamics of sustainable supply chains play a key role in their performance,
as the reverse flows of returns and remanufactured products entail new sources of …

This paper addresses the dynamics of a two-product closed-loop supply chain with realistic
assumptions on production capacity constraints. The closed-loop supply chain is also …

We consider a hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing system where the returned products
(cores) are classified into different quality grades. Each grade requires different …