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Globalisation has transformed market conditions reducing lead times and increasing both the degree of product differentiation and price competition. To cope with this issue, new hybrid order fulfilment strategies have emerged which integrate the Make to Stock (MTS) and Build to Order (BTO) strategies, and whose aim is to simultaneously improve opposite objectives, such as the stock level and the lead time. Furthermore, companies face frequent challenges of sharing updated information and avoiding the lack of coordination between the different company subsystems. This work focuses on relatively recent fulfilment strategies based on the Floating Decoupling Point (FDP) which uses real time information to operate. The main objectives of this work are the study of the influence of different sources of real-time information about the available products and select the most suitable configuration of these systems …