Up to now demand fulfillment in make-to-stock manufacturing is usually handled by advanced
planning systems. Orders are fulfilled on the basis of simple rules or deterministic planning
approaches not taking into account demand fluctuations. The consideration of different customer
classes as it is often done today requires more sophisticated approaches explicitly considering
stochastic influences. This book reviews current literature presents a framework that
addresses revenue management and demand fulfillment at once and introduces new stochastic
approaches for demand fulfillment in make-to-stock manufacturing based on the ideas of the
revenue management literature.
