A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the “machine-type model” (MTM) inventory of the existing operation, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building blocks”, which will still follow...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US7496530?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7496530 - Large inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems
