Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

Automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are dedicating significant efforts to maintaining an efficient order catalog in order to provide superior products to customers in make-to-stock (MTS) markets. Although research on product “assortment planning” is expanding to effectively...