A Review of Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Reverse Logistics and Remanufacturing for End-of-Life Products

During the end-of-life (EOL) product recovery process, there are a series of combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) that should be efficiently solved. These COPs generally result from reverse logistics (RL) and remanufacturing, such as facility location vehicle routing in RL, scheduling, planning, line balancing remanufacturing. Each RL remanufacturing has been reviewed; however, no review comprehensively discusses summarizes both. To fill gap, comprehensive both is given this paper, which typical arising at end life cycle discussed analyzed for first time. better summarize these COPs, 160 papers published since 1992 selected categorized into three modules: scheduling disassembly Finally, existing research gaps identified some possible directions described.