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Abstract: For a manufacturer which bases make-to-order (MTO) as its product positioning
strategy, in such competitively growing business in which customers demand a
shorter and shorter delivery time, it`s
important for the manufacturer to avoid unnecessary inventory of semi-finished
goods but improve the flexibility of delivery and to minimize the uncertain
interferences in the middle of manufacturing in order to better respond to the
customers. We propose a four-step method. In the first step, employing RFM indexing
method to find the most potential profit-maximizing product from the product
line for export. Second step is to do a mining on sequence pattern of the bill
of material (BOM) which is picked from the RFM to obtain the large frequent
sequence pattern of processing. From these largest sequence patterns, in the
third step, create the corresponding sequence rules and present in visualization
the common parts BOM and critical parts. Fourth step is to generate a feasible
as well as safe optimized quantity of production. Our proposed method can, provide
as an assistance to the enterprises that they can better control the commonness
of their products and processes and help them find the most appropriate parts
or semi-finished goods for make-to-stock during the safe planning horizon so
that they can effectively and accurately increase the inventory of these critical
parts and minimize the uncertain interferences in the middle of manufacturing
in order to better respond to the customers.