| Titre : | The effect of lifetime buys on warranty repair operations (2010) |
| Auteurs : | K. Sahyouni, Auteur ; R. C. Savaskan, Auteur ; M. S. Daskin, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Journal of the operational research society (JORS) (Vol. 61 N° 5, Mai 2010) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 790–803 |
| Note générale : | Recherche opérationnelle |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 001.424 |
| Tags : | Logistics Inventory Repair |
| Résumé : | Lifetime buys are a common practice in the electronics and telecommunication industries. Under this practice, manufacturers procure their repair parts inventory in one order to support the spare part needs of a product for the duration of its warranty repair period. In this paper, we consider a repair operation in which defective items under warranty are returned to a manufacturer who either repairs these items using its spare parts inventory or replaces each defective unit with a new product. We show how fixed repair capability costs, variable repair costs, inventory holding costs, and replacement costs affect a firm's optimal repair and replacement decisions. The model is used to gain insights for products from a major mobile device manufacturer in the United States. |
| DEWEY : | 001.424 |
| ISSN : | 0361-5682 |
| En ligne : | www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v61/n5/abs/jors2008143a.html |
