Product proliferation as a result of meeting ever increasing customer demand preferences is
well documented. In addition, customisation has been promoted as a source of competitive …

The paper reviews 'classic approaches' to Production Planning and Control (PPC) such as
Kanban, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) and Theory of Constrains (TOC), and …

The research into multi-product production/inventory control systems has mainly assumed
one of the two strategies: make-to-order (MTO) or make-to-stock (MTS). In practice, however …

Presents a new taxonomy for the non make‐to‐stock sector to enable a like‐with‐like
comparison, arguing that existing taxonomies within the literature are inadequate for …

The paper presents a systematic literature review on big size product manufacturing systems
in MTO and ETO environments. In particular, the analysis is focused on highly customised …

Production planning and control (PPC) systems that employ aspects from both make-to-
order (MTO) and make-to-stock (MTS) production control are known as hybrid MTS/MTO …

Electronic Commerce (EC) has offered a new channel for instant on-line shopping.
However, there are too many various products available from a great number of virtual …

We explore use of data mining for lead time estimation in make-to-order manufacturing. The
regression tree approach is chosen as the specific data mining method. Training and test …

This research aims to develop an analytical model of the supplier selection process in
designing a supply chain network. The constraints on the capacity of each potential supplier …

Workload control has been described as one of the new production planning and control
concepts available for practical operations. The main principle has been defined by as to …