Green Supply Chain Model with Product Remanufacturing under Volume Flexible Environment

This paper developed an integrated deteriorating production inventory model with green component design and remanufacturing. In the paper, the number of deliveries is derived on behalf of demanding analysis, the optimal cycle time of deliveries and the delivery size for the integrated buyer-supplier inventory model for volume flexibility are also derived. Our paper proposed a significantly different approach to deal with the first production batch and uses a revised method to approximate the relationship between the supplier's production and storage time.In this paper, we developed an integrated profit maximization supply chain model with green component design and remanufacturing. Mathematica 8.0, is used to derive the optimal policies. Numerical examples and the sensitivity analysis are presented to illustrate the model.