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Order Fulfillment Models for the Catalog Mode of Mass Customization — A Review

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Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 87))

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Catalogue Mass customizers are being imaginative in coping with the demands of high variety, high volume, customization and short lead times. These demands have encouraged the relationship between product, process and customer to be re-examined. A diversity of order fulfillment models are observed including some models with a single fixed decoupling point, some with multiple fixed decoupling points, and others with floating decoupling points.

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Brabazon, P.G., MacCarthy, B. (2006). Order Fulfillment Models for the Catalog Mode of Mass Customization — A Review. In: Blecker, T., Friedrich, G. (eds) Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 87. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32224-8_10

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