With global trade expanding rapidly and customer preferences becoming more diverse, many manufacturing firms are grappling with the problem of product proliferation. In this paper we consider the problem of determining which of many (potential) products to offer and how to price them, taking...

Much of the literature on product line design or product line selection focuses on revenues or market share maximization, but in many cases, the true objective is to maximize profit. In this paper, we survey the literature on models that address decisions regarding the conceptual design of...

We address the problem of sequencing jobs, each of which is characterized by one of a large number of possible combinations of customer-specified options, on a paced assembly line. These problems arise frequently in the automotive industry. One job must be launched into the system at equal time...