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The processes of delivering product that is sourced, configured, manufactured, and/or assembled from standard raw materials, parts, ingredients or sub-assemblies, in response to a specific firm customer order. A reference to the customer order is exchanged with the sourcing or make process and attached to or marked on the product. Products in stock are identifiable by customer order through labeling and inventory data management. Examples include assigning a serial number, lot number or batch number to a customer order prior to Make or Source, processes that generate a bill-of-materials for the associated Make process (e.g. configure-to-order and assemble-to-order) and the 'special order' process in retail. |