ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a mathematical programming-based model to solve the aggregate planning problem for end-of-life products. The aggregate planning problem encompasses many different characteristics of environmentally conscious manufacturing and planning, such as: disassembly, re-use, recycling and remanufacturing (Gungor and Gupta 1999). The goal is to provide a way for the disassembler to reclaim various models of a product for remanufacturing in the most economical way. The approach is employed in a multi-period environment to determine the number of components needed to remanufacture products in each time-period throughout the planning horizon.
