Recycling Strategies in a Collector-Led Remanufacturing Supply Chain under Blockchain and Uncertain Demand

Remanufacturing has been regarded as a key to the sustainable development of enterprises. However, collection strategies affect remanufacturing and recycling used products. Blockchain can ensure authenticity disclosed information improve consumer’s trust in remanufactured Inspired by this, this paper develops game-theoretic model examine selection different supply chain considering blockchain adoption uncertain demand. Incumbent collector 1 provides manufacturer with product for 1. For 2, two strategies: in-house or external 2. The collectors act channel leader, manufacturer, who private demand information, is follower. Results show that are incentivized participate blockchain. If there no blockchain, prefers collection. In case when variance low. manufacturer’s decision on depends coefficient investment costs.