Material planning for a remanufacturing facility

Material planning for a remanufacturing facility

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Article ID: iaor20022751
Country: United States
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 112
End Page Number: 124
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Journal: Production and Operations Management
Authors: ,
Keywords: remanufacturing, recycling
Abstract:

This article describes the first fully integrated material planning system to facilitate the management of a remanufacturing facility. A number of firms are already engaged in this activity. They remanufacture automobile, truck, and other vehicle components, like starters, alternators, transmissions, and so forth. These firms take in used components, disassemble them, and assemble saleable products from the good parts they find. There is considerable uncertainty in the supply of used components, the good parts in those components, and the demand for remanufactured products. Our system is based on material requirements planning logic, something that many firms in the industry are already familiar with. Meetings with experts in the industry were used to set the parameters of the system and evaluate its approach.

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