Optimal Operation for Green Supply Chain Considering Demand Information, Collection Incentive and Quality of Recycling Parts

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study proposes an optimal operational policy for a green supply chain (GSC) where a retailer pays an incentive for collection of used products from customers and determines the optimal order quantity of a single product under uncertainty in product demand. A manufacturer produces the optimal order quantity of product using recyclable parts with acceptable quality levels and covers a part of the retailer’s incentive from the recycled parts. Here, two scenarios for the product demand are assumed as: the distribution of product demand is known, and only both mean and variance are known. This paper develops mathematical models to find how order quantity, collection incentive of used products and lower limit of quality level for recycling affect the expected profits of each member and the whole supply chain under both a decentralized GSC (DGSC) and an integrated GSC (IGSC). The analysis numerically compares the results under DGSC with those under IGSC for each scenario of product demand. Also, the effect of the quality of the recyclable parts on the optimal decisions is shown. Moreover, supply chain coordination to shift the optimal decisions of IGSC is discussed based on: I) profit ratio, II) Nash bargaining solution, and III) Combination of (I) and (II).

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. NOTATION
• 3. MODEL DESCRIPTIONS
• 4. EXPECTED PROFITS IN GSC
• 5. OPTIMAL DECISIONS-MAKING FOR GSC
• 6. INCORPORAITON OF PROFIT SHARING APPROACH INTO IGSC AS SUPPLY CHAIN COORPORATION
• 7. NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS
• 8. CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES

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