Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5127511 Computers & Industrial Engineering 2017 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

•The Collection-Disassembly Problem is considered in the reverse supply chains.•A two-phase iterative heuristic is developed to address large scale instances.•The proposed heuristic provides good solutions under acceptable computational time.

Closing the loop in the supply chains is one of the mandatory conditions for more sustainable development. The Collection-Disassembly Problem appears in the reverse part of the closed-loop supply chains. Its aim is to coordinate the activities of collection of end-of-life products from collection centres and their subsequent disassembly. The disassembly step is required for efficient remanufacturing and recycling of returned products. The Collection-Disassembly problem integrates such optimization problems as dynamic lot-sizing and vehicle routing in general cases. In this paper, we develop a Two-Phase Iterative Heuristic to efficiently address large size instances. The numerical tests show that the heuristic provides good solutions under acceptable computational time.

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