Early Supplier Involvement in Online Product Configuration for Mass Customization
The rationality of Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) product development has been well recognized in terms 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: 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.
Jun Du Ling-Zhi Zhong Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
School of Management Tianjin University Tianjin, China George W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology USA
国际会议
International Conference on Management and Service Science(2011年第五届管理与服务科学国际会议 MASS 2011)
武汉
英文
1-4
2011-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）