Purpose – Managing product life cycle data is important for achieving design excellence, product continued operational performance, customer satisfaction and sustainment. As a result, it is important to develop a sustainment simulator to transform life cycle data into actionable design...

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This paper concerns inventory control of a deteriorating product with non-negligible procurement lead-time that perishes after a known number of periods. Demand for fresh products during each period is represented as a random variable with known probability distribution, but only a fraction of...