We describe hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing systems with a long lead time for manufacturing and a short lead time for remanufacturing. We review the classes of inventory strategies for hybrid systems in the literature. These are all based on equal lead times. For systems with slow manufacturing and fast remanufacturing, we propose a new class. An extensive numerical experiment shows that the optimal strategy in the new class almost always performs better and often much better than the optimal strategies in all other classes.

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Erasmus Research Institute of Management
hdl.handle.net/1765/231
ERIM Report Series Research in Management
Erasmus Research Institute of Management

Teunter, R., van der Laan, E., & Vlachos, D. (2002). Inventory strategies for systems with fast remanufacturing (No. ERS-2002-77-LIS). ERIM Report Series Research in Management. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/231