Optimizing supply chain replenishing policy for green short life-cycle product considering ecological product design value, remanufacturing and warranty-dependent demand

Due to environmental warming and consciousness, business globalization and shortened product life-cycle, numerous attentions have been paid to ecology protection, resource saving and effective operations management. Green product and production processes designs have significant influence on the environment and resource re-usage. The relevant EU regulations, such as WEEE, RoSH and EuP, have been trying to have a friendly way to the earth and reduce the greenhouse effects by controlling the disposals and the gas emission. These green product design and remanufacturing efforts are investigated in the development of an integrated production inventory model with short life-cycle. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the theory.