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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2001
Cipriano A. Santos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fereydoon Safai, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shailendra Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fereydoon Safai, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shailendra Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of managing product end of life over an end of life horizon includes the step of selecting an objective of either maximizing gross profit or minimizing writeoff costs for a selected plurality of products being discontinued. The products may have parts in common. A subset of all possible combinations of product demand levels is selected. Each combination is associated with a probability. A procurement plan that optimizes the selected objective is generated based on the selected subset of demand levels given a non-zero pre-existing inventory of at least some parts of the selected products.