Reverse logistic model for deteriorating items with non-instantaneous deterioration and learning effect

Abstract

Recycling is the necessary concept for survival of the today’s global environment. To encourage this concept, in present article we have developed a reverse logistics model for deteriorating items. The deterioration is treated as noninstantaneous rate with time dependent demand rate. The production rate is directly related with demand rate under the effect of learning. The whole study is done in an inflationary environment. The goal of this study is to find optimum value of total cost function. At the end this article model is numerically illustrated and a sensitivity analysis is performed.