The Impact of Remanufacturing Operations

on the Dynamic Performance in a Closed Loop Supply Chain

Ø  报告人： 周莉

Ø  地点：文新楼502教室

Ø  时间：2018年3月15日 上午 9:00

内容简介：

       System dynamic (SD) performance reflects the cost in a supply chain. This research investigates a three-echelon manufacturing and remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) constituting of a retailer, a manufacturer and a supplier. Each echelon, apart from its usual operations in the forward SC (FSC), has its own reverse logistics (RL) operations. We assume that RL information is transparent to the FSC, and the same replenishment policies are used throughout the supply chain. We focus on the impact on dynamic performance of uncertainties in the return yield, RL lead time and the product consumption lead time. Two outcomes are studied: order rate and serviceable inventory. The results suggest that higher return yield improves dynamic performance in terms of overshoot and risk of stock-out with a unit step response as input. And, when the return yield reaches a certain level, the classic bullwhip propagation normally associated with the FSC does not always hold in CLSC. We also study bullwhip and inventory variance when demand is a random variable. Our analysis suggests that higher return yield contributes to reduced bullwhip and inventory variance at the echelon level but for the CLSC as a whole the level of bullwhip may decrease as well as increase as it propagates along the supply chain.

报告人简介：

Dr. Zhou,Li, reader in Operations Management at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the founder and director of the Supply Chain Research Group – an International Leading research group according to the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014. She has acted in several different leadership roles during her international career in China, Sweden and UK, ranging from project leadership to team leader and team member in a number of projects funded by the Chinese government, the Swedish Institute, and enterprises. So far, she has had over 100 articles published in various forms including journal papers, edited book chapters, and conference papers. Her work appears (inter alia) in internationally recognized and high-impact journals such as “International Journal of Production Economics”, “OR Spectrum”, “OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science”, and “Supply Chain Management: An International Journal”. She is also the guest editor of three special issues for the International Journal of Production Economics.