Pricing and remanufacturing decisions in a dual channel reverse supply chain: study of three configurations with after sales services

Abstract

This paper studies the pricing and remanufacturing decisions in a dual channel reverse supply chain with remanufacturing and repair flows. As in practice, this paper integrates an after sales service in each distribution channel which affects the customer's purchase decision. Centralized and decentralized supply chain configurations were developed and three mathematical models were proposed aiming to optimize the profit. Numerical results are presented to show the robustness of the models and to compare the results of the different configurations by studying the impacts of parameters of interest on the decisions variables.