Product architecture modularity implications for operations economy of green supply chains

Yohanes Kristianto and Petri Helo

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2014, vol. 70, issue C, 128-145

Abstract: The role of product architecture modularity is commonly in increasing product reusability and minimizing waste. This paper designs a decision support system to determine optimal product architecture modularity in closed loop supply chains. The objective is to investigate if remanufacturing and modular upgrading is appropriate at certain periods and in modules. The optimization model is tested under several production yield scenarios in order to determine manufacturing and remanufacturing capacity and production line scheduling under process yield uncertainty. The implications of product architecture modularity for operations economy of green supply chains are discussed in terms of their theoretical and managerial aspects.

Keywords: Green supply chains; Operations scheduling; Product architecture modularity; Product substitutability; Product recovery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2014.06.019

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