After the expiration of each lease, lessees may return leased equipment on schedule, renew
the lease or purchase it according to the equipment status and their demands. By …

In a manufacturing/remanufacturing leasing system, quality of collected end-of-life leased
products is uncertain due to lessees-differentiated demands. Quality affects remanufacturing …

In the post-COVID-19 epidemic era (PCEE), the supply of empty containers will face stronger
uncertainty. Estimating the amount of self-owned and leased empty containers that need to …

Generally, the transportation of cargo plays a vital role in effective supply chain
management. For the safe transportation of the goods, the Returnable Containers (RCs) are …

The paper aims to present a container inventory model by utilizing strategies to avoid the
scarcity of reusable containers. The Container Management Organization (CMO) seeks to …

Approximately 20% of global container transportation activities are used for empty container
repositioning, which does not generate profit margins. For container supply ports, in addition …

In this highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, a fuzzy
inventory optimization problem is a hot topic that received the most attention from both …

This paper explores the multi‐item vendor's inventory (VI) model in which the vendor
replenishes the products from various suppliers and satisfies the retailers' demand. Different …

Based on the division of public and exclusive hinterlands, this paper studies the joint
optimization problem of empty container repositioning and inventory control under non …

In supply chain management, the reusable containers are the main source of import and
export trading. Import and export of the cargoes need some reusable transport items like …