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International Journal of Mass Customisation
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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 1742-4208 - ISSN (Online) 1742-4216
Published by Inderscience Publishers

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Dynamic design of sustainable supply chain networks - a
fuzzy-based approach
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  Authors: Nina Vojdani, Mathias Knop
  Pages: 93 - 110
  Abstract: Supply chain networks change continuously due to varying objectives, requirements as well as restrictions. The ability of supply chain networks to adapt to changing requirements, especially in fast moving industries, is decisive. As sustainability issues in supply chain management are increasingly concerned among companies, adequate approaches for redesign and replanning considering sustainability become essential. This paper proposes a fuzzy-based approach to support the dynamic design and planning of sustainable supply chain networks from a stakeholder's perspective. An approach is introduced to define and select sustainability measures. In addition, a continuous monitoring of stakeholder requirements, supply chain performance and market trends accounts for the necessity of redesign and replanning. The approach will qualify companies to select sustainability measures to handle rising complexity within sustainable supply chain decision-making context. The findings contribute to the literature on stakeholder management within sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) research.
  Keywords: supply chain design; sustainable supply chain management; SSCM; stakeholder management; stakeholder requirement; sustainability measure; replanning; redesign; fuzzy logic
  Citation: International Journal of Mass Customisation, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019) pp. 93 - 110
  PubDate: 2019-11-18T23:20:50-05:00
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMASSC.2019.103631
  Issue No: Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019)
Willingness to pay and wait for mass customised products
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  Authors: Hassan D. Kalantari, Lester W. Johnson
  Pages: 111 - 129
  Abstract: Researchers have investigated whether customers would be willing to pay more for mass customised products and also whether they would wait to receive them. But surprisingly, these two issues have not been examined simultaneously. We describe a study where we use conjoint analysis, a market research technique, to examine the customer trade-off between price, delivery waiting time and type of customisation in the walking stick market in Australia. Our approach should be relatively easily repeatable in other mass customisation markets.
  Keywords: mass customised products; conjoint analysis; willingness to pay; willingness to wait; segmentation
  Citation: International Journal of Mass Customisation, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019) pp. 111 - 129
  PubDate: 2019-11-18T23:20:50-05:00
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMASSC.2019.103632
  Issue No: Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019)
Rule authoring for vehicle configuration management: an experimental study
on graph-based representations
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  Authors: Keith T. Phelan, Joshua D. Summers, Mary E. Kurz
  Pages: 130 - 146
  Abstract: The purpose of this research is to determine whether the implementation of a visual rule authoring mechanism would increase the accuracy and/or consistency of the rules being implemented by conducting a user study. The researchers hypothesised that using the visual method for implementing rules would result in a higher degree of accuracy and consistency among the participants. However, the results showed a decrease in the response accuracy for implementing all of the rules in the system. This is likely due in part to the graphical representation method requiring more training than the standard text-based rule implementation method. The most significant limitation in this study was the difference in familiarity of the participants with their respective rule implementation systems. As a result of this limitation, an additional study was conducted in which a third group of participants were given the same questions, but were provided the visualisations with an extended (five-minute) training period. The results from the third group closely matched the results from the control group that used the spreadsheet-based method. Another major limitation is that both groups of participants implemented the changes by hand rather than through the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) software module, which is how the graphical method could be conducted in a real environment.
  Keywords: graph visualisation; configuration management; user interfaces; change management
  Citation: International Journal of Mass Customisation, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019) pp. 130 - 146
  PubDate: 2019-11-18T23:20:50-05:00
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMASSC.2019.103633
  Issue No: Vol. 5, No. 2 (2019)

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