Overview
- Intends to provide basic approaches for coping with the main problems in main customization, concerning the optimal product assortment to be offered to customers and the product variants to be selected for a particular customer during the interaction process
- Result of a multi-year research project on the "Modeling, Planning, and Assessment of Business Transformation Processes in the Area of Mass Customization"
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems (ISIS, volume 7)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals of Product Customization
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An IT Infrastructure for Effective and Efficient Product Customization
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Concepts for Implementing an Efficient Product Customization
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Back Matter
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About this book
In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the cost perspective. Information and Management Systems for Product Customization will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization. Moreover, mass customization with its multi-dimensions is the new business paradigm challenging today's manufacturing companies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information and Management Systems for Product Customization
Authors: Thorsten Blecker, Gerhard Friedrich, Bernd Kaluza, Nizar Abdelkafi, Gerold Kreutler
Series Title: Integrated Series in Information Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b101300
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-23347-5Published: 04 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8412-8Published: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-23348-2Published: 28 December 2005
Series ISSN: 1571-0270
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7968
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 269
Topics: Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Industrial and Production Engineering, IT in Business, Information Systems and Communication Service, Management
Industry Sectors: Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Materials & Steel, Pharma