In the past decades, the rate of technological innovation has increased significantly. Additionally,
customer preferences are continuously changing nowadays. As a consequence, product life cycles are
shorter and making end-of-life inventory decisions to ensure spare part availability during the end-of-life
phase has become more critical. In this research different solutions for the end-of-life phase are
analyzed in order to determine how order fulfillment of spare parts in the end-of-life phase can be
improved. A case study on this topic has been done at Company A.