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Product families are an important concept to manage increasing diversity in products. If coordination in the supply chain is to be based on product families, new complexities occur. Since product family is a rather abstract concept, a formal model is needed to describe it. This paper proposes object oriented data modelling as a tool to describe product data families. Also it uses a semi-formal database notation to express examples in a narrative form. The paper shows that this is an effective way to discuss abstract concepts in a precise way. A finding from the discussion is that, when partners in the supply chain establish supply contracts on product families, it is advisable that each partner has his own representation of that family, while the contract links the needed and the offered family and its parameters.
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Pels, H.J., Cheng, K. (2003). Product family based coordination for design and production in the supply chain. In: Jagdev, H.S., Wortmann, J.C., Pels, H.J. (eds) Collaborative Systems for Production Management. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 129. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35698-3_10
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