再制造成本随机分布和市场细分的生产优化模型

本文研究了单一厂商制造/再制造混合系统的两期生产优化问题。首先,在回收率一定条件下,建立了回收产品的再制造成本与再制造率之间的函数关系;接着,引入消费者偏好系数构造了再制造产品和新制造产品之间的价格竞争和市场细分;然后,建立了以追求利润最大化为目标的模型,证明了该模型为凸规划,给出了K-T条件表达式,并分析了伽马分布条件下解的特征;最后,通过算例对本文模型的性质和规律作进一步分析。     

外包再制造下再制造设计对制造 /再制造影响

为分析外包再制造模式下,再制造设计对制造/再制造供应链竞争的影响,构建制造/再制造博弈模型.基于博弈模型,分析再制造设计费用不同承担方式对再制造设计努力程度、废旧产品回收率、收益和环境等影响.研究结果表明:原始制造商通过外包再制造不仅可以降低再制造商的市场竞争优势,还可以获得再制造带来的收益;再制造设计可以促进再制造商回收废旧产品,提高废旧产品回收率;无论是原始制造商还是再制造商承担再制造设计费用,两者收益分别在再制造设计努力程度的不同点达到最大,而不是再制造设计努力程度越大其收益越大;再制造对环境影响并不总是有利的,当单位再制造产品与新产品对环境造成的影响之比小于某一阀值,同时再制造设计给单位再制造产品带来收益与带给单位新产品收益之比大于某一阀值时,再制造才有利于降低对环境的影响.     

奖惩机制下电子类产品制造商回收再制造决策模型

研究了电子类产品制造商回收再制造决策问题。为引导制造商回收再制造,设计了一个奖惩机制。建立了制造商回收再制造的三个决策模型并分别比较了三种情形下制造商的决策结果。研究表明:只有回收再制造具有成本优势时制造商才自愿回收废旧产品;当回收再制造废旧产品具有成本优势时,该奖惩机制导致回收率提高、新产品销售价格降低、新产品需求量增加;当回收再制造废旧产品不具有成本优势时,该奖惩机制导致回收率提高、新产品销售价格提高、新产品需求量减少;针对有无回收再制造成本优势情形,分别给出了奖惩机制下制造商利润大于无奖惩机制情形下制造商利润的奖惩力度和最低回收率的临界值;本文结论能够为政府引导制造商回收再制造提供理论指导。     

考虑库存能力约束的多期闭环供应链网络均衡北大核心CSCDCSSCI

在多个规划期背景下,本文研究了由多个制造商、多个零售商和多个消费市场组成的闭环供应链网络的均衡问题,其中制造商存在库存能力约束并进行制造和再制造活动。特别地,对于再制造过程,考虑了产品寿命次数。利用规划期之间的库存转移和回收废旧品的再制造刻画规划期之间的联系,运用变分不等式、互补理论和对偶理论建立了各层成员和整个供应链网络的均衡条件。最后,结合固定步长的修正投影收缩算法对模型进行求解,并通过算例对有关参数进行了灵敏度分析。算例分析的结果表明:无论制造商是否具有库存能力约束,制造商和零售商的利润随着两次再制造转化率的变化均大致呈现线性关系;制造商的库存能力约束会改变制造商和零售商的利润,并使总利润有所增加但不会实现帕累托改进。本文的研究有望为闭环供应链及其网络均衡方面的研究提供一定的借鉴。     

废旧产品再制造环境下的产品定价和再制造方式分配

原材料价格的不断上涨,使得制造企业开始通过废旧产品的回收和再制造来缓解制造成本的上涨.然而,制造企业可以采用较昂贵的技术生产与新产品无差异的再制造品,也可以采用较廉价的技术生产在低端市场销售的再制造品,不同的再制造方式会给制造商带来不同的利润;另一方面废旧品的边际回收成本随着回收率的上升而上升,使得制造企业必须小心选择废旧品的回收数量.文中构建了高端市场和低端市场之间存在需求的线性替代关系时,再制造品和新产品的定价问题,并在优化计算的基础上得到了成本结构对于最优利润、最优价格、最优回收率和不同再制造方式比重的影响.     

双环境规制对再制造决策的影响

越来越多的国家和地区实施了环境规制谱以限制产品在制造、使用以及丢弃等阶段对各类环境的负面影响,这些规制涉及大气环境与陆地环境等.能源使用性产品不仅在制造阶段与使用阶段产生碳排放量,还在丢弃时污染陆地环境.此外,再制造策略通过回收-再制造使用期结束的新产品日益被制造商视为减轻环境影响的友好方式.基于此,文中研究环境规制谱(同时约束产品的丢弃数量与产品产生的碳排放量)如何影响制造商的再制造决策.结论 显示:(1)对于无环境规制、单环境规制(陆地或大气规制)与双环境规制(同时存在陆地与大气环境规制)情形,当新产品使用时间较短时,制造商的最优策略是选择再制造策略;当新产品使用时间较长时,不选择再制造策略更有利于制造商.(2)与不选择再制造策略相比,大气环境规制下的再制造策略有利于制造商获得更高利润的范围最小;陆地环境规制下再制造策略有利于制造商的范围最大;双环境规制下再制造策略有利于制造商的范围介于上述两类单环境规制之间.     

专利保护下再制造闭环供应链协调机制研究

受专利保护的原制造商享有产品再制造的专有权利,只有获得原制造商的专利许可,第三方再制造商才能进行专利产品的回收再制造.针对再制造知识产权保护在管理研究中的不足,本文建立了受专利保护的原制造商许可第三方再制造的闭环供应链模型,利用博弈理论讨论了分散与集中情况下节点企业的最优决策.同时,分析了专利许可对旧产品回收再制造的影...     

基于政府补贴的制造企业生产战略决策研究北大核心CSCDCSSCI

政府环境规制是推进再制造产业发展的重要政策。针对制造企业再制造生产战略实施动力不足的现实国情,设计政府直接补贴制造企业与直接补贴消费者两种不同的激励契约。考虑消费者对再制造产品的偏好程度,基于两种不同补贴方式分别建立政府与制造企业博弈的双层规划模型。比较分析两种补贴方式下政府补贴力度分别对制造企业实施再制造生产战略的影响,讨论各参数变化对制造企业决策和收益的影响。研究表明:政府加大对制造企业的补贴力度,将降低再制造产品市场价格,加大对消费者补贴力度,将提高再制造产品市场价格;政府两种不同的补贴激励机制均增加再制造产品市场占有率,提高制造企业收益。研究结论对再制造产业发展初期政府环境规制的制定和制造企业的运营决策具有现实指导意义。     

考虑产品可替换的再制造产品选择决策

再制造是处理回收产品的一种重要方式.本文研究了一种简单的产品可替换的再制造决策模型,再制造商生产的产品有高质量和低质量两种,高质量的再制造产品数量超过需求量时,可以作为低质量产品的替换品销售.最后通过仿真算例说明了产品可替换策略比不可替换具有优势.     

奖惩机制下具竞争制造商的废旧产品回收决策模型

各国政府为保护环境加强了对废旧电器电子产品的回收再制造的管制。本文研究了两个制造商竞争情况下基于政府奖惩机制的制造商的废旧产品回收决策问题。具体研究时分两种情况:一种情况是两个制造商中只有一个回收再制造废旧产品,另一种情况是两个制造商都回收再制造废旧产品。研究表明:奖惩机制下回收再制造废旧产品的制造商的回收率提高;无论制造商是否回收再制造废旧产品,其新产品销售价均比无奖惩机制时低,奖惩机制对消费者有利;制造商竞争有利于奖惩机制引导制造商提高废旧产品的回收率;回收率随再制造率的提高而提高;无论另一个制造商回收再制造废旧产品与否,实施回收再制造制造商的利润随奖惩力度的提高而增加,随政府规定的目标回收率的提高而降低,且奖惩力度越大,降低幅度越明显。算例分析说明了上述结论的正确性。     

Effects of Remanufacturable Product Design on Market Segmentation and the Environment

Despite documented benefits of remanufacturing, many manufacturers have yet to embrace the idea of tapping into remanufactured‐goods markets. In this article, we explore this dichotomy and analyze the effect of remanufacturable product design on market segmentation and product and trade‐in prices by studying a two‐stage profit‐maximization problem in which a price‐setting manufacturer can choose whether or not to open a remanufactured‐goods market for its product. Our results suggest that it is optimal for a manufacturer to design a remanufacturable product when the value‐added from remanufacturing is relatively high but product durability is relatively low and innovation is nominal. In addition, we find that entering a remanufactured‐goods market in and of itself does not necessarily translate into environmental friendliness. On the one hand, the optimal trade‐in program could result in low return and/or remanufacturing rates. On the other hand, a low price for remanufactured products could attract higher demand and thereby potentially result in more damage to the environment. Meanwhile, external restrictions imposed on total greenhouse gas emissions draw criticism in their own right because they risk stifling growth or reducing overall consumer welfare. Given these trade‐offs, we therefore develop and compare several measures of environmental efficiency and conclude that emissions per revenue can serve as the best proxy for emissions as a metric for measuring overall environmental stewardship.     

On Core Sorting in RMTS and RMTO Systems: A Newsvendor Framework

Variation in core condition and uncertainty in market demand pose great challenges for remanufacturers to match supply with demand. This article investigates a firm that acquires and remanufactures cores of multiple quality conditions to satisfy demand. Both remanufacturing‐to‐stock (RMTS) and remanufacturing‐to‐order (RMTO) systems are considered. In each system, a sorting operation that resolves the core conditions before remanufacturing may or may not be adopted, leading to four possible sorting/remanufacturing strategies: (1) no sorting in RMTS; (2) sorting in RMTS; (3) no sorting in RMTO; and (4) sorting in RMTO. Under each strategy, we derive the optimal decisions on the acquisition and remanufacturing quantities, in two scenarios, respectively: (i) all acquired cores are remanufacturable and (ii) some cores are non‐remanufacturable. We find that sorting can be completely useless to RMTS system, and thus should never be adopted regardless of the sorting cost. We provide the analytical condition under which this ineffectiveness of sorting occurs. Nevertheless, sorting is always useful to RMTO system and should be adopted when the sorting cost is below a threshold value. We also conduct an extensive numerical study and show that the effects of sorting to RMTO system are more significant than that to RMTS system.     

Product Design and Supply Chain Coordination Under Extended Producer Responsibility

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation focuses on the life‐cycle environmental performance of products and has significant implications for management theory and practice. In this paper, we examine the influence of EPR policy parameters on product design and coordination incentives in a durable product supply chain. We model a manufacturer supplying a remanufacturable product to a customer over multiple periods. The manufacturer invests in two design attributes of the product that impact costs incurred by the supply chain—performance, which affects the environmental impact of the product during use, and remanufacturability, which affects the environmental impact post‐use. Consistent with the goals of EPR policies, the manufacturer and the customer are required to share the environmental costs incurred over the product's life cycle. The customer has a continuing need for the services of the product and optimizes between the costs of product replacement and the costs incurred during use. We demonstrate how charges during use and post‐use can be used as levers to encourage environmentally favorable product design. We analyze the impact of supply chain coordination on design choices and profit and discuss contracts that can be used to achieve coordination, both under symmetric and asymmetric information about customer attributes.     

Design of the Reverse Channel for Remanufacturing: Must Profit‐Maximization Harm the Environment?

A key attribute of a remanufacturing strategy is the division of labor in the reverse channel, especially whether remanufacturing is performed in‐house or outsourced. We investigate this decision for a retailer who accepts returns of a remanufacturable product. Our formulation considers the cost structures of the two strategies, uncertainty in the input quality of the collected/returned used products, consumer willingness‐to‐pay for remanufactured product, the extent to which the remanufactured product cannibalizes demand for a new product, and the power structure in the channel. For the profit‐maximizing retailer, the differentials in variable remanufacturing costs drive strategy choice, and higher fixed costs of in‐house remanufacturing favors outsourcing. The variable remanufacturing costs and the balance of power in the prospective outsourced reverse channel are the key drivers of environmental impact, as measured by the retailer's propensity to remanufacture. While profitability and environmental goals often conflict, they align under certain conditions. These include (a) the third party has less bargaining power; or (b) the fixed cost for in‐house remanufacturing is relatively high. All else equal, when remanufacturing is outsourced, the environment fares better if the third party has leadership power. We generalize to the cases when remanufacturing achieves a quality level less than “good‐as‐new" and when used items have non‐zero salvage value. Analysis of these extensions illuminates how relative power in the reverse channel drives the firms’ preferences, as well as the end customers’ consumption experience.     

Coordination and Priority Decisions in Hybrid Manufacturing/Remanufacturing Systems

Companies are increasingly realizing the need to coordinate their manufacturing and remanufacturing operations. This can be a challenge due to the inherent variability in the condition and amount of returns, which has a direct impact on remanufacturing costs and leadtimes. In this paper, we develop a modeling framework to compare two alternative strategies that use either manufacturing or remanufacturing as the primary means of satisfying customer demand. Of course, in the event that the demand cannot be met by the prioritized process, the secondary process is used as a contingency. In our basic model, the priority decisions are made at the component level in replenishing the serviceable inventory, while the disposal and new component ordering decisions are made independently. The second model represents the coordination of remanufacturable and new component inventory control decisions. Using simulation‐based optimization on a large number of experiments, we observe that when prioritization is in the upstream echelon and there is no coordination in managing component stocks, there exists a critical return ratio, below which it is beneficial to give priority to manufacturing and above which it is beneficial to give priority to remanufacturing. We also see that coordinated control of the component inventories considerably reduces the importance of prioritization. These observations remain valid when congestion in the shop floor is also taken into account. We also study the benefits of state‐dependent dispatching policies in a realistic case.     

An integrated corporate planning model for forest-based industries

The paper presents an integrated model for corporate planning of forest-based industries. Techniques are developed to determine the profitability of wood quality manipulations, taking into proper account the impact of uncertainties on future product prices. Production alternatives of final products are specified as functions of wood quality properties which are, in turn, functions of tree type (genotype) alternatives. The total return from processing wood depends on future prices of final products, which are unknown. Selling prices of final products are related to stochastic price indices for solid wood products and paper products. Risk can be reduced by diversifying among genotype alternatives; in a case study the value of a portfolio of genotype alternatives is significantly larger than the single ‘best’ genotype alternative. The model framework may be applicable to any other natural resource industry with similar characteristics such as agriculture, petroleum or mining.     

Joint Persistence of Transformation Products in Chemicals Assessment: Case Studies and Uncertainty Analysis

The joint persistence (JP) quantifies the environmental persistence of a parent compound and a selection of relevant transformation products. Here, the importance as well as the uncertainty of the JP in comparison to the persistence of the parent compound alone (primary persistence, PP) are investigated. To demonstrate the effect of transformation products on the environmental persistence of organic chemicals, three case studies of parent compounds (nonylphenol ethoxylates, perchloroethylene, atrazine) and transformation products are investigated in detail with a multimedia fate model. Comparison of the PP and JP values shows that transformation products can significantly increase the persistence. In addition to the point estimates of PP and JP, the associated uncertainties are investigated. For each of the case studies, the chemical-specific input parameters of all compounds are varied and the corresponding variance of the PP and JP is determined by Monte Carlo simulations. Interestingly, the higher number of input parameters required for the JP does not necessarily increase the uncertainty of the JP as compared to that of the PP alone. An exact mathematical expression specifying the contribution of each transformation product to the JP is given. When transformation products are grouped in different generations, it becomes discernible that the first generation increases the JP most; the later generations are of decreasing importance. Finally, the effect of incomplete knowledge of the transformation products and their properties on the JP results is discussed. For reliable JP estimates, knowledge of the first generation transformation products and their degradation rate constants is required.     

Product Assortment and Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand

The role of assortment planning and pricing in shaping sales and profits of retailers is well documented and studied in monopolistic settings. However, such a role remains relatively unexplored in competitive environments. In this study, we study equilibrium behavior of competing retailers in two settings: (i) when prices are exogenously fixed, and retailers compete in assortments only; and (ii) when retailers compete jointly in assortment and prices. For this, we model consumer choice using a multinomial Logit, and assume that each retailer selects products from a predefined set, and faces a display constraint. We show that when the sets of products available to retailers do not overlap, there always exists one equilibrium that Pareto‐dominates all others, and that such an outcome can be reached through an iterative process of best responses. A direct corollary of our results is that competition leads a firm to offer a broader set of products compared to when it is operating as a monopolist, and to broader offerings in the market compared to a centralized planner. When some products are available to all retailers, that is, assortments might overlap, we show that display constraints drive equilibrium existence properties.     

All the bottles in one basket? Evaluating the effect of intra-industry diversification on risk

This paper develops a framework using Monte Carlo simulation to examine risk/return properties of intra-industry product portfolio composition and diversification. We use product-level data covering all Swedish sales of alcoholic beverages to describe the risk profiles of wholesalers and how they are affected by actual and hypothetical changes to product portfolios. Using a large number of counterfactual portfolios we quantify the diversification benefits of different product portfolio compositions. In this market the most important reductions in variability come from focusing on domestic products and from focusing on product categories that have low variability. The number of products also has a large effect in the simulations, moving from a portfolio of 10 products to one of 20 products cuts standard deviation of cash flows in relation to mean cash flows by more than half. The concentration of import origins plays a minor quantitative role on risk/return profiles in this market.     

具有无标度特性的港航系统网络效应分析

在对复杂网络的形成、特性和代表性研究成果简要总结的基础上,通过对国际航运网络的实证分析,研究了国际航运网络表现出的小世界效应和无标度特性,对其存在的一些个性进行了分析。将港口产业与港航服务企业等效为产品网络中的主导产品与其互补产品,将航运企业等效为消费者,通过对产品网络中网络效应的分析,以及对消费者两阶段预算分配过程的研究,对港航系统产品网络中网络效应特性的内生机理进行了探讨,指出某些特定领域内复杂网络统计特征源于产品系统的网络收益对产品效用的影响。