creator Li, Chia-hang advisor Durango-Cohen, Elizabeth J. A supply chain is a network of facilities responsible for the production and delivery of goods and services from the initial raw materials to the end customers. Supply chain management, therefore, involves management of activities both within and among the organizations throughout the chain at every level of business management. In this dissertation, we address three specific supply chain problems at three distinct level of business management: (1) Operational capacity and production planning; (2) Tactical closed-loop channel structure design; and (3) Strategic platform competition. In each work, we identify strategies that lead the supply chain improvements. Submitted by Erma Thomas (thomase@iit.edu) on 2017-11-02T19:47:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_495936.zip: 7042990 bytes, checksum: 4b9b5e317da4e6a50f20bd98dd126811 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-02T19:47:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_495936.zip: 7042990 bytes, checksum: 4b9b5e317da4e6a50f20bd98dd126811 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05 Ph.D. in Management Science, May 2017 2017 2017-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4137 en Closed-loop Supply Chain Inventory Control Remanufacturing Secondary Market Supply Chain Contract Trade-in Program Dissertation born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access SSB / Stuart School of Business Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department