Closed-loop supply chain system with energy, transportation and waste disposal costs

Figures & data

Figure 1 Material flow for the production and a remanufacture system considered.

Table 1 The optimal production and remanufacturing policy for the proposed model (θ = 0.5).

N	m	α	θ	X^*	TC^*
2	1	0.5	0.5	80.27	341.148

Figure 2 Optimal lot size and TC for different values of the waste disposal rate.

Table 2 Richter's (1996) optimal production and remanufacturing policy with energy, transportation and disposal costs considered (θ = 0.5).

n	m	α	xR	TCR
1	2	0.5	25.668	109.087	587.97

Figure 3 The structures of the TCs for the modes of Richter (1996) and the proposed one comparing for θ = 0.5.

Richter, K.1996. “The EOQ and Waste Disposal Model with Variable Setup Numbers.” European Journal of Operations Research95 (2): 313–324.

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