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Revenue Management For Make-To-Order And Make-To-Stock Systems, Jiao Wang May 2011

Revenue Management For Make-To-Order And Make-To-Stock Systems, Jiao Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

With the success of Revenue Management (RM) techniques over the past three decades in various segments of the service industry, many manufacturing firms have started exploring innovative RM technologies to improve their profits. This dissertation studies RM for make-to-order (MTO) and make-to-stock (MTS) systems.

We start with a problem faced by a MTO firm that has the ability to reject or accept the order and set prices and lead-times to influence demands. The firm is confronted with the problem to decide, which orders to accept or reject and trade-off the price, lead-time and potential for increased demand against capacity constraints, …