Title: Remanufacturing planning with imprecise quality inputs through the goal programming and the satisfaction functions

Authors: Mouna Mezghani; Taicir Loukil

Addresses: Logistique, Gestion Industrielle et de la Qualité, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Industrielle de Sfax, Université de Sfax, BP954, 3018, Tunisia. ' Logistique, Gestion Industrielle et de la Qualité, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Industrielle de Sfax, Université de Sfax, BP954, 3018, Tunisia

Abstract: In this paper, a tactical production-planning problem for remanufacturing is considered where inputs have different and imprecise quality levels. This situation is typical of most remanufacturing environment, where inputs are product returns (also called cores). Remanufacturing costs increase as the quality level decreases and any unused cores may be salvaged at a value that increases with their quality level. The aim of this paper is to develop a goal programming (GP) formulation within imprecise goals and inputs quality of product returns where the concept of satisfaction function will be utilised to introduce explicitly the manger's preferences into the remanufacturing aggregate planning model. In order to verify our proposed model, a numerical example is described to generate the best satisfying aggregate plan.

Keywords: remanufacturing; aggregate production planning; APP; imprecise goal programming; satisfaction function; imprecise inputs; uncertainty; product returns; multicriteria decision making; MCDM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCDM.2012.050680

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, 2012 Vol.2 No.4, pp.379 - 390

Published online: 30 Aug 2014 *

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