Product family design and platform-based product development has received much attention
over the last decade. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art …

Variety management has emerged as a crucial dimension of successful business practice. In
this paper, I first provide a framework for managerial decisions about variety. Variety …

Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

Increasingly heterogeneous markets, together with shorter product life cycles, are forcing
many companies to simultaneously compete in the three domains of product, process, and …

Customers for retail merchandise can often be satisfied with one of several items.
Accounting for demand substitution in defining customer service influences the choice of …

Determining the antecedents and performance consequences of supply chain integration is
a key focus of recent supply chain management research. This study investigates the role of …

This paper considers the stock rationing problem of a single-item, make-to-stock production
system with several demand classes and lost sales. For the case of Poisson demands and …

In an attempt to reduce cost while maintaining good customer service, some of the leading
manufacturers in the computer industry are delaying product differentiation (by exploiting …

Motivated by a study of the logistics systems used to manage consumable service parts for
the US military, we consider a static threshold-based rationing policy that is useful when …

Publisher Summary An assemble-to-order (or ATO) system includes several components
and several products. The time to acquire or produce a component is substantial. A product …