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This paper is one of a series of essays in honour of Franz Ferschl's 70th Birthday. The authors study the coordination in a single stage system. The problem is the co-ordination for Material Requirement Planning (MRP)policies. The case of external returns is studied. The critical run-out time (for excess returns), the control of inventory levels, the re-manufacturing rule, the projected total requirements for a time span and other parameters are derived for the cases of external and internal returns. Their combinations with reactive and proactive planning are reported. Three schemes are used for illustrating the production/re-manufacturing systems analysed. Control rules for establishing deterministic decision making procedures are developed. They propose a procedure which controls the production of re-manufacturing processes in a single stage of a system . Their structure is similar to an optimal stochastic control rule. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00096].