Bish, Ebru K.; Muriel, Ana; Biller, Stephan - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 2, pp. 167-180
Flexible capacity has been shown to be very effective to hedge against forecast errors at the investment stage. In a make-to-order environment, this flexibility can also be used to hedge against variability in customer orders in the short term. For that purpose, production levels must be...