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Design for form postponement: do not overlook organization design
No full textPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a theory of the organizational changes related to the production-planning process that facilitate application of form postponement (FP), an increasingly popular operations-design principle meant to alleviate the negative impact of product variety and customization on operational performance.
Design/methodology/approach - To achieve the theory-building objective, a multiple-case study involving four cases in the machinery industry was designed. In the inductive theory-building process, the authors borrowed from the information-processing theory to further corroborate the internal validity and generalizability of the findings.
Findings - The theory proposed by the author indicates that greater utilization of lateral relations in the production-planning process, higher production-planning frequency, greater degree of self-containment of the production-planning task, and simplification of the production planning-related environment favor application of FP.
Research limitations/implications - The level of analysis of the theory is the production-planning process of a product family within a company. Future research could extend inquiry of the organizational antecedents of FP at both higher and lower levels of analysis, such as the organization as a whole or the individuals participating in the production-planning process.
Practical implications - The theory supports managerial decision making by suggesting how to redesign the organization part involved in the production-planning process of a product family in order to apply FP. The difficulty and cost of this organizational redesign effort should be taken into account when companies consider FP implementation.
Originality/value - Past research has focused on changes to product design and to the manufacturing and supply chain process that enable FR This paper augments the understanding of FP enablers by developing the first model of organizational antecedents of FP. It also responds to calls for more research integrating insights from organization theory and operations/supply chain management
Gestione dei magazzini di beni a domanda indipendente
No full textSistemi di monitoraggio delle scorte. Come calcolare Q per il modello di riordino a quantità fissa. Come calcolare R nel modello di riordino a quantità fissa. Come calcolare P e T nel modello di riordino a periodo fisso
Concetti base di magazzino
No full textIl concetto di magazzino. Scopi del magazzino. Costi del magazzino. Decisioni nella gestione del magazzino. Indicatori di prestazione per la gestione del magazzino. Le scorte nella catena di fornitura
Gestione dei magazzini di beni a domanda dipendente
No full textChe cos’è un sistema MRP. Come lavora un sistema MRP
Organisational antecedents of mass customization capability
No full textThe need to transform the organisation for mass customisation has long been recognized in literature, but the discussion has largely relied on anecdotal evidence or case studies and has limitedly taken advantage of insights from organisation theory. We draw on organisational information-processing theory to relate mass customisation capability (MCC) to four organisation-design strategies aimed at either increasing the organisation’s information-processing capacity or decreasing its information-processing need. We test the hypothesized relationships using a sample of 238 manufacturing plants from three industries and eight countries and find that MCC is positively related to task self-containment, environmental management, and lateral relations use
Which form postponement? A typological theory of form postponement effects on operational performances
No full textForm postponement postulates that changes in product form occur at the latest possible point along a production and distribution process. The potential benefits of form postponement have been widely investigated in the literature on the subject. However, as often happens with developing research fields, conflicting or hard-to-relate findings are quite frequent in this literature. In this paper, we demonstrate that past research findings can be reconciled by distinguishing among three mutually exclusive types of form postponement. We build this thesis by developing a typological theory that formalizes how, why and under which assumptions each type of form postponement affects inventory holding costs, delivery lead times, processing costs, transportation costs, quality conformance and order specification flexibility. Directions for future research and implications for practice are finally discussed
Mass customization: principi ed applicazioni
No full textLa presente guida mira a diffondere la conoscenza della Mass Customization (MC) tra le aziende europee. Questo obiettivo è perseguito fornendo sia alcune basi teoriche della MC che un certo numero di casi che illustrano l’applicazione delle leve operative per la MC. Alcuni brevi casi sono usati per esemplificare l’applicazione delle varie leve in diversi settori. Altri casi, più dettagliati, sono offerti al lettore per illustrare i contesti e le sfide che hanno spinto le aziende considerate ad implementare la MC nonché i risultati ottenuti
Increasing the consumer-perceived benefits of a mass-customization experience through sales-configurator capabilities
No full textThe consumer's experience of self-customizing a product with a sales configurator can be a source of experience-related benefits for the consumer, above and beyond the traditionally considered utility of possessing a product that better fits his/her idiosyncratic needs. Although such experience-related benefits have been found by previous studies as increasing consumers??? willingness to pay for mass-customized products, research on what characteristics sales configurators should have to increase such benefits is still in its infancy. In this paper, we argue that two such benefits (i.e., hedonic and creative-achievement benefits) increase as a sales configurator deploys, to a greater extent, the following capabilities: focused navigation, flexible navigation, user-friendly product space description, easy comparison and benefit-cost communication. Subsequently, by analyzing 675 self-customization experiences made by 75 engineering students on 30 real Web-based configurators of consumer goods, we find empirical support for all the hypothesized relationships. We conclude discussing the contribution of the study to relevant debates, its managerial implications as well as its limitations and the related opportunities for further research
Mass customization best practices guide
No full textThe present guide is intended to disseminate the knowledge of Mass Customization across European companies. This objective is pursued providing both some theoretical foundations on MC as well as a number of cases that illustrate the application of MC best practices. The cases are used to exemplify the application of the various MC best practices across different sectors as well as to show the contexts and the challenges that drove companies to implement MC best practices
Embeddedness and path dependence of organizational capabilities for mass customization and green management: A longitudinal case study in the machinery industry
Full text linkA growing number of firms today have to cope with the twofold challenge of mass customization (i.e., combining high performance in product customization with high performance in cost, delivery and quality) and green management (i.e., integrating environmental-sustainability principles into businesses). Research on this joint challenge, however, is still limited in the literature. To narrow this gap, we empirically investigate the interconnectedness of mass customization and green management on the level of their enabling capabilities. Through a single longitudinal case study in a machinery manufacturing organization that, during the period of observation, succeeded in developing both mass-customization capabilities and green-management capabilities, we find overlaps and path dependences between such capabilities. Pragmatically, these findings indicate synergies that firms pursuing a green mass customization strategy may leverage in order to alleviate the difficulty of implementing that strategy. From an academic standpoint, these findings contribute to the debate on the relationship between the environmental pillar of sustainability and its economic pillar and, at the same time, add both to the body of the literature on mass customization and to the one on green management. Limitations of the present study and the related opportunities for future research are, finally, discussed
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