Delaying product differentiation is a hybrid strategy that strives to reconcile the dual needs of high variety and quick response time. A common product platform is built to stock in the first stage of production (called the Make-To-Stock (MTS) stage) which is then differentiated into different products after demand is known in the second stage (known as the Make-To-Order (MTO) stage). In this ...

Consider a mass customizer who produces multiple variants of a product in make-to-order fashion, and who also produces some standard variants as make-to-stock. We evaluate pricing and production issues from a joint marketing and operations perspective. Marketing determines prices while operations chooses between three production strategies as it sets capacity. A key result is that under the log...

there have been several efforts in the literature to extract as much information as possible from the financial networks. most of the research has been concerned about the hierarchical structures, clustering, topology and also the behavior of the market network; but not a notable work on the network filtration exists. this paper proposes a stock market filtering model using the correlation - ba...