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arxiv: 2605.17151 · v1 · pith:LO77JIL3new · submitted 2026-05-16 · 💻 cs.LG

An Analytical Multiple Criteria Framework for Temporal and Dynamic Business-to-Business Customer Segmentation in Manufacturing

Muhammad Raees , Konstantinos Papangelis , Vassilis Javed Khan This is my paper

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keywords customer segmentationB2B manufacturingRFM modelmulti-criteria decision makingtime series clusteringdynamic segmentationcustomer stability
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A dynamic multi-criteria method extends RFM with stability and growth to segment B2B manufacturing customers over time.

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The paper proposes a new approach to customer segmentation in business-to-business manufacturing that goes beyond traditional RFM models by adding measures of stability and growth. It combines this with an adaptive analytical hierarchy process to align with specific business goals and uses multivariate time-series clustering to handle changes over time. The method also tracks how customers move between segments and their volatility, using a graph-based model for consensus. Tested on data from more than 3000 real customers, it demonstrates robustness to shifts in time periods. This matters because better segmentation can lead to improved strategies for customer treatment and supply chain management in manufacturing.

Core claim

The authors design a dynamic MCDM method for B2B manufacturing customer segmentation by extending RFM to include stability and growth dimensions, integrating an adaptive AHP to match business objectives, evaluating multivariate time-series clustering models, measuring customer stability and tracking transitions and volatility, and applying a graph-based consensus model, all validated on a real-world dataset of over 3000 customers showing strong robustness to temporal shifts.

What carries the argument

The dynamic multi-criteria decision-making framework that extends RFM analysis with stability and growth and integrates adaptive analytical hierarchical process to align with business objectives while using time-series clustering for temporal dynamics.

If this is right

  • Customer stability can be measured and transitions between segments tracked over time.
  • Volatility in customer behavior can be analyzed to inform supply chain decisions.
  • Domain experts gain preferential analytics to devise strategies for customer treatment.
  • The approach provides effective decision support for B2B customer segmentation in manufacturing contexts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This framework might help manufacturers anticipate changes in customer value and adjust marketing or service levels proactively.
  • Similar methods could be applied to other B2B sectors to improve long-term relationship management.
  • By focusing on temporal robustness, companies could reduce risks associated with sudden shifts in customer bases during economic changes.

Load-bearing premise

The method's demonstrated robustness to temporal shifts depends on the specific real-world manufacturing dataset of more than 3000 customers being representative of typical B2B interactions.

What would settle it

Applying the segmentation method to a new manufacturing dataset and observing inconsistent segment stability or poor alignment with actual business performance metrics like revenue changes would challenge the robustness claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17151 by Konstantinos Papangelis, Muhammad Raees, Vassilis Javed Khan.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A dynamic categorization of all features crafted for MCDM. The expert evaluation can adjust these categorizations and feature weights to adapt segmentation preferences to their goals and company objectives. B2B scenarios have long-term data, which can significantly increase the frequency of customers who have been active with the company. Hence, having an average measure of frequency over a duration can be… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of segmentation modeling process. Customer transaction data is evaluated and pre-processed before modeling. The model allows preferential feature selection and weighting. The method applies both segmentation approaches and combines results to provide insights and recommendations for segments. 𝛼, 𝛽, and 𝛾 are preferential weights that control the importance of each component in the final score. For… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The Spearman correlation analysis to adapt segmentation preferences to their goals and company objectives. of the input data is conducted, and necessary processing is performed to prepare the transactional data for modeling and create the customer value representation by the features. It solves outlier, long-tail, and skewness problems by performing optimal cleaning and transformations (e.g., log, box-cox,… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Snake plot comparison of features for optimal cluster model with 4 clusters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

In sales and marketing, customer segmentation is an important tool for formulating strategies for customer treatment and supply chain management. Most segmentation implementations rely on limited criteria, such as recency, frequency, and monetary (RFM) modeling, which often fail to capture complex business interactions. In this work, we design and evaluate a dynamic multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method in a business-to-business (B2B) manufacturing context by 1) extending RFM to dimensions of stability and growth, 2) integrating an adaptive and analytical hierarchical process to match business objectives, and 3) evaluating multivariate time-series clustering models. We then measure customer stability, tracking between-segment transitions, and volatility over time, and apply a graph-based consensus model to further strengthen the analysis. We test the efficacy of the proposed method using a real-world manufacturing company dataset to segment more than 3,000 B2B customers, showing strong robustness to temporal shifts. The implementation enables domain experts with preferential analytics to devise their strategies, providing effective decision support for B2B customer segmentation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes and evaluates a dynamic multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for temporal B2B customer segmentation in manufacturing. It extends RFM modeling with stability and growth dimensions, integrates an adaptive Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) to align with business objectives, applies multivariate time-series clustering, tracks between-segment transitions and volatility, and employs a graph-based consensus model. The method is tested on a real-world dataset of more than 3,000 B2B customers from a manufacturing company, with the central claim being strong robustness to temporal shifts.

Significance. If the robustness to temporal shifts is quantitatively demonstrated with appropriate baselines and statistical support, the framework could provide a useful analytical tool for preference-driven, dynamic segmentation in B2B manufacturing contexts, improving upon static RFM approaches for supply chain and marketing decisions. The combination of extended RFM, adaptive AHP, and consensus modeling offers a structured way to incorporate domain expertise.

major comments (2)
  1. [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the central claim of 'strong robustness to temporal shifts' is load-bearing but unsupported by concrete quantitative evidence. No transition matrices, per-period stability percentages, volatility distributions, or statistical comparisons against static RFM or non-adaptive baselines are supplied, making it impossible to determine whether observed stability exceeds what would be expected from random or non-dynamic methods on the same data.
  2. [Method] Method section: the adaptive AHP and clustering steps reference free parameters (AHP criterion weights and number of clusters) without detailing how they are chosen or adapted across periods, which undermines reproducibility and the claim that the method matches business objectives in a parameter-light manner.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'showing strong robustness to temporal shifts' is stated without any accompanying numerical metrics, error bars, or baseline comparisons, which weakens the summary of results.
  2. [Data] The manuscript would benefit from explicit description of the dataset characteristics (e.g., time span, feature definitions for stability/growth) to allow readers to assess representativeness for temporal-shift robustness.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important areas for strengthening the quantitative evaluation of temporal robustness and improving methodological reproducibility. We have revised the paper to address these points directly.

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  1. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: the central claim of 'strong robustness to temporal shifts' is load-bearing but unsupported by concrete quantitative evidence. No transition matrices, per-period stability percentages, volatility distributions, or statistical comparisons against static RFM or non-adaptive baselines are supplied, making it impossible to determine whether observed stability exceeds what would be expected from random or non-dynamic methods on the same data.

    Authors: We agree that the evaluation would be strengthened by explicit quantitative metrics. In the revised manuscript, we have added transition matrices for segment changes across periods, per-period stability percentages, volatility distributions, and statistical comparisons (including appropriate tests) against static RFM and non-adaptive baselines to demonstrate that observed stability exceeds random or non-dynamic expectations on the same data. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method section: the adaptive AHP and clustering steps reference free parameters (AHP criterion weights and number of clusters) without detailing how they are chosen or adapted across periods, which undermines reproducibility and the claim that the method matches business objectives in a parameter-light manner.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for greater detail on parameter selection to support reproducibility. The revised Method section now explicitly describes how AHP criterion weights are adapted across periods using domain-expert input aligned with business objectives, and how the number of clusters is determined via the elbow method and silhouette analysis, with sensitivity results reported. This preserves the parameter-light intent while enabling replication. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in the proposed dynamic MCDM segmentation framework

full rationale

The paper proposes an independent methodological extension of RFM with stability/growth dimensions, integration of adaptive AHP for business objectives, and evaluation of multivariate time-series clustering plus graph-based consensus on an external real-world dataset of >3000 B2B customers. No equations, predictions, or derivations are shown to reduce to fitted inputs by construction, and no load-bearing self-citations or uniqueness theorems are invoked. The robustness claim rests on external evaluation rather than self-referential definitions, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained proposal against benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 2 invented entities

The framework rests on domain assumptions about measurable customer dimensions and the value of MCDM plus clustering for segmentation; several free parameters are implied for weighting and model selection.

free parameters (2)
  • AHP criterion weights
    Set to match business objectives; chosen by experts or fitted during the adaptive process.
  • Number of clusters
    Selected during evaluation of multivariate time-series clustering models.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Customer interactions in B2B manufacturing can be meaningfully captured by extending RFM with stability and growth dimensions.
    Invoked when extending RFM for the dynamic context in the abstract.
  • domain assumption Multivariate time-series clustering and graph-based consensus produce stable segments that reflect real business dynamics.
    Used when evaluating models and measuring between-segment transitions.
invented entities (2)
  • Stability dimension no independent evidence
    purpose: To quantify consistency of customer behavior over time beyond traditional RFM.
    Newly added extension to RFM; no independent evidence outside the framework.
  • Growth dimension no independent evidence
    purpose: To capture directional change in customer value or engagement.
    Newly added extension to RFM; no independent evidence outside the framework.

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    We design and evaluate a dynamic multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method in a business-to-business (B2B) manufacturing context by 1) extending RFM to dimensions of stability and growth, 2) integrating an adaptive and analytical hierarchical process to match business objectives, and 3) evaluating multivariate time-series clustering models.

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    We then measure customer stability, tracking between-segment transitions, and volatility over time, and apply a graph-based consensus model to further strengthen the analysis.

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