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    Mass Customization: Postponement & Component Commonality

    OBJECTIVE & SCOPE OF STUDY6 MASS CUSTOMISATION7 INDUSTRIES PRACTICING MASS CUSTOMISATION9 CONCLUSION10 REFRENCES11 1. INTRODUCTION With growth in globalization opportunities, and shortening of product life cycles, firms are increasingly being challenged with requirements to proliferate product variety. In this attempt to meet the varied requirements of customers worldwide, mass customization has become an important requirement for many businesses. Provisioning of mass customisation, however, has

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    Mass Customisation: Postponement and Component Commonality

    & SCOPE OF STUDY6 MASS CUSTOMISATION7 INDUSTRIES PRACTICING MASS CUSTOMISATION9 CONCLUSION10 REFRENCES11 1. INTRODUCTION With growth in globalization opportunities, and shortening of product life cycles, firms are increasingly being challenged with requirements to proliferate product variety. In this attempt to meet the varied requirements of customers worldwide, mass customization has become an important requirement for many businesses. Provisioning of mass customisation, however,

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    to these programs has exceeded $200 million/year and are expected to reach the $1 billion mark in 2006.” - Dick Conrad, Senior Vice President, HP Global Operations Supply Chain 1 Edward Feitzinger and Hau L. Lee. “Mass Customization at Hewlett-Packard: The Power of Postponement.” Harvard Business Review, January-February 1997: pp. 116-121. Laura Kopczak and Hau L. Lee. “Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Printer Supply Chain (A) and (B).” Stanford Teaching Case, 1996. Hau L. Lee. “Product Universality:

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    Service Operations Management

    Service System Decoupling for Mass Customization: A Case Study in Catering Services Jue CHEN1, Yunhong HAO2 1 The tourism school, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China; 2School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China. Email: chenjue8@yahoo.com Received April 17, 2009; revised June 19, 2009; accepted July 28, 2009. ABSTRACT The paper examines the key issues on system decoupling in service operations of mass customization by conducting a case study

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    Supply Chain Management - Ford Motor Company

    Part A: Literature Review Logistic systems and supply chains are continuously impacted by a multitude of internal and external variables. These variables include globalisation, shorter product life-cycles, technological advances, the development of electronic supply chains (ESC), increased communication, breakdowns of trade barriers, development of national economies and ever continuing efficiency improvements in transportation, manufacturing and communication (Gunaskeran, Patel & McGaughey 2004

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    Benetton and Zara

    MODEL 4.4 FINANCIAL DATA 4.5 COMPETITORS CHAPTER 5 : BENETTON 5.1  BENETTON’S  HISTORY 5.2 BUSINESS MODEL 5.2.1: STRENGHTS 5.2.2: WEAKNESSES 5.2.3:PARTNERSHIP 5.2.4: INTEGRATION 5.2.5: SUPPLY CHAIN HISTORY 5.2.6: NETWORKED MANUFACTURING 5.2.7: POSTPONEMENT IN DYEING 5.3: INFORMATION SYSTEM 5.3.1: THE SHOP 2 50 51 54 59 65 66 71 73 76 76 83 83 84 88 90 91 93 94 96 99 5.4: FINANCIAL DATA

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    for a domestic automobile. a. What are the components of the supply chain for the automobile? b. What are the different firms involved in the supply chain? c. What are the objectives of these firms? d. Provide examples of conflicting objectives in this supply chain. e. What are the risks that rare or unexpected events pose to this supply chain? Answer: a. The supply chain for a car typically includes the following components:: 1. Suppliers for raw materials

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    Project Management Summary

    Session 1 Krajewski Chapter 1: Using Operations to Compete • • • Operations Management ! systematic design, direction & control of processes that transform inputs into outputs Process ! activity(s) that transforms inputs into outputs Operation ! group of resources performing one or more processes Functional Areas of business (acquires!fin.!Resources&capital! for!input)! Finance* Material!&! Service! Inputs! Operations* (material!&!service!into! outputs)! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Support!Functions

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    E-Book Supply Chain Management

    Introduction to Supply Chain Management Technologies Second Edition Introduction to Supply Chain Management Technologies Second Edition David Frederick Ross CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2011 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

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    Pmda Handbook New Product Developme

    THE PDMA HANDBOOK OF NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT T HIRD E DITION Kenneth B. Kahn, Editor Associate Editors: Sally Evans Kay Rebecca J. Slotegraaf Steve Uban JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. Cover image: © Les Cunliffe/iStockphoto Cover design: Elizabeth Brooks This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may

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