A dynamic pricing approach for returned products in integrated forward/reverse logistics network design |
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Authors: | E Keyvanshokooh M Fattahi SM Seyed-Hosseini R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Avenue, Tehran, Iran;3. Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | During the last decade, the stringent pressures from environmental and social requirements have spurred an interest in designing a reverse logistics network. In this paper, we address the problem of designing and planning a multi-echelon, multi-period, multi-commodity and capacitated integrated forward/reverse logistics network. Returned products are categorized with respect to their quality levels, and a different acquisition price is offered for each return type. Furthermore, the reservation incentive of customers, the expected price of customers for one unit of used product described by uniform distribution, is applied to model the customers’ return willingness. Due to the fact that the remaining worthwhile value in the used products is the corporation’s key motivation for buying them from customers, a dynamic pricing approach is developed to determine the acquisition price for these products and based on it determine the percentage of returned products collected from customer zones. The used products’ acquisition prices at each time period are determined based on the customers’ return willingness by each collection center. |
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Keywords: | Supply chain management Integrated forward/reverse logistics Quality levels Dynamic pricing approach Mixed-integer linear programming |
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