Title : 
Decentralized Supply Chain Programming Model for Remanufacturing System Involved in Third Party Logistics Provider
         
        
            Author : 
Shen Chenglin ; Zhang Xinxin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Bus., Tianjin Polytech. Univ., Tianjin
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper proposed a decentralized supply chain programming model for remanufacturing system based on minimal-information sharing which is composed of one manufacturer, one supplier, and one 3PL provider. The manufacturer is in charge of returning and re-disposing used products besides manufacturing and remanufacturing, while the 3PL provider is responsible for the transportation of new products and returned products. During the operation, each chain partner pursues cost-minimization, and minimal-information sharing. Lastly, we recommend an interactive multi-level programming algorithm for model solution.
         
        
            Keywords : 
manufacturing systems; supply chain management; interactive multi-level programming algorithm; minimal-information sharing; remanufacturing system; supply chain programming model; third party logistics provider; Costs; Pharmaceuticals; Production systems; Programming profession; Pulp manufacturing; Raw materials; Reverse logistics; Supply chains; Transportation; Virtual manufacturing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Dalian
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2107-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2108-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1478