Title :
Study of Mass Customization in Cluster Supply Chain
Author :
Chunling Liu ; Weichun Xiao ; Linlin Xu ; Yanping Wu
Author_Institution :
Res. Center of Supply Chain Syst., Wuhan Textile Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Cluster supply chain is a new kind of supply chain. This paper first put forward the origin of cluster supply chain, then explored attributes of cluster supply chain compared with the traditional chain, at last gave feature of mass customization in cluster supply chain. It is proved that the advantages in cluster supply chain system derive from multitude hierarchical and functional driving levels. Factors such as quantity, important degree of offered items and convenient degree of obtained items illustrate that cooperation styles in supply chain would not only have one, so it makes sense that multi-style cooperation exists in cluster supply chain. The detailed discussion was developed in the paper.
Keywords :
mass production; product customisation; supply chain management; cluster supply chain; mass customization; multistyle cooperation; Cluster supply chain; Industrial cluster; Mass customization;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ISISE), 2012 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5680-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISISE.2012.53