Future smart cities are the key to fulfilling the ever-growing demands of citizens. Information
and communication advancements will empower better administration of accessible …

This paper analyses literature contributions in the search for safety stock problem under
uncertainties and risks in the procurement process, focusing on the dimensioning problem …

Showrooming, a phenomenon in which customers use brick-and-mortar stores to assess
products and then purchase them from online retailers (o-retailers) for lower prices, is …

The e-commerce platform-driven Customer-to-Manufacturer (C2M) strategy is an emerging
business model in which the e-commerce platform collects customer preference data and …

Mass Customization is a generic business strategy for organizational excellence and
organizations striving for competitive advantage are incorporating MC into their business …

The use of current computer tools in both manufacturing and design stages breaks with the
traditional conception of productive process, including successive stages of projection …

How to make a suitable decision by balancing the benefits and costs of Mass customization
(MC) has been widely discussed by scholars. While with the development of information and …

To cost effectively offer distinctive products to the market, many companies resort to product
platforms, defined as a common base from which a set of products are derived. Yet, the …

Because of the prevalence of “Online-to-Store (OS)” channel, customers can purchase
differentiated products online and pick up in-store. We develop a Stackelberg game …

The enduring fluctuations in market demand, exemplified by exceedingly unpredictable
customer requirements, have given rise to mass customization (MC), which is acquiring …