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Research Symposium
New Ideas in Order Fulfilment

September 17, 2008 at Nottingham University, UK

Responsiveness is a key driver for all players in today’s supply chains — manufacturers, retailers, intermediaries and logistics partners. The traditional ‘textbook’ models for planning and order fulfilment need to be augmented by more flexible forms of response.

Leading international researchers presented and discussed new ideas in order fulfilment in different sectors:

» Build and Make-to-Order
» Flexible planning and reconfiguration
» Open pipeline planning
» Revenue management in production and order fulfilment
» Integrated forecasting and planning
» Supply chain and logistics strategies

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Learn about Mass Customization

On this website is the Mass Customization Resource Centre, containing information about Mass Customization, resources for Mass Customizers and links to external resources. It is an ongoing objective of the Nottingham MCRC to gather and disseminate information on MC to the commercial and academic communities.
In the Resource Centre you will find:

» concise explanations of MC
» multimedia briefings
» downloadable articles and presentations
» tools for implementing MC
» database of configurator providers
» suggested reading
» dates of conferences
» courses for MC

Nottingham MCRC

The Mass Customization Research Centre at Nottingham is within the Operations Management Division of the Nottingham University Business School. MCRC was founded in 2000 and is active in studying mass customization.

MCRC welcomes enquiries about research opportuinities. There is flexibility in how a research project is constituted and managed .. [read more>>]

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