Study on Supply Chain Management for Product Family in Mass Customization

Author

Wang, Zhihong ; Ning, Fanghua

Author_Institution

Univ. of Donghua, Shanghai

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1515

Lastpage

1519

Abstract

The mass customization is one of the main paradigms in manufacturing in the 21st century. It is oriented to product family. Making the best of the similarities of the products and the processes in product family, the modularization and standardization of product family were realized. Thus the negative influences on supply chain management made by the varieties of products were eliminated. Firstly, the standardization of product family was analyzed in terms of component standardization, process standardization, product standardization and procurement standardization. The modularization of product family mainly included product´s modularization and process´s modularization. Secondly, the effects of them on supply chain management were discussed respectively. Then, based on the above-mentioned analysis, the characteristics of the supply chain management for the product family were presented. Finally, according to the characteristics, the model of supply chain for product family was built.

Keywords

mass production; procurement; product customisation; standards; component standardization; mass customization; process standardization; procurement standardization; product family; product standardization; supply chain management; Corporate acquisitions; Costs; Economic forecasting; Manufacturing automation; Mass customization; Procurement; Production; Standardization; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Mass customization; Product family; Supply chain management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation and Logistics, 2007 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jinan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1531-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAL.2007.4338811

Filename

4338811