End-of-Life Inventory Decisions for Consumer Electronics Service Parts

End-of-life decisions.

False memories for end-of-life decisions.

OBJECTIVE To examine people's false memories for end-of-life decisions. DESIGN In Study 1, older adults decided which life-sustaining treatments they would want if they were seriously ill. They made these judgments twice, approximately 12 months apart. At Time 2, older adults and their self-selected surrogate decision makers tried to recall the older adults' Time 1 decisions. In Study 2, youn...

Drivers for recycling of end-of-life electronics

Customer differentiated end-of-life inventory problem

This paper deals with the service parts end-of-life inventory problem in a circumstance that demands for service parts are differentiated. Customer differentiation might be due to criticality of the demand or based on various service contracts. In both cases, we model the problem as a finite horizon stochastic dynamic program and characterize the structure of the optimal policy. We show that wh...

Inventory control of service parts in the final phase