Early Supplier Involvement in Online Product Configuration for Mass Customization

Author

Du, Jun ; Zhong, Ling-Zhi ; Jiao, Jianxin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The rationality of Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) in product development has been well recognized in terms of transforming supply chains into integrated value systems. Despite past advancements in ESI, some of the unique issues have not been addressed for ESI in e-product configuration for mass customization. As far as variety management and online configuration are concerned, the difficulties of ESI in online mass customization manifest themselves through two main aspects: (1) mass customization is facing a variety dilemma resulting from the continuous generation of product variants to meet diverse customer needs. (2) Online configuration is another crucial factor to the success of electronic product configuration. Towards this end, this paper discusses critical issues of ESI for online production customization and accordingly outlines a technical framework.

Keywords

electronic commerce; manufacturing data processing; mass production; product customisation; supply chain management; customer need; e-product configuration; early supplier involvement; electronic product configuration; mass customization; online product configuration; product development; Databases; Mass customization; Materials requirements planning; Optimization; Real time systems; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5999001

Filename

5999001