Moving into Mass Customization Information Systems and Management Principles [Paperback]

Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.I: THE STRATEGY OF MASS CUSTOMIZATION.- On the Economics of Mass Customization.- A Procedure for Building Product Models.- Mass Customization Facing Logistics Challenges.- From Mass Production to Mass Customization: Impact on Integrated Supply Chains.- Key Value Attributes in Mass Customization.- II: PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION.- Web Tools for Supporting Mass Customization.- Manufacturing Planning and Control Content Management in Virtual Enterprises Pursuing Mass Customization Claus Rautenstrauch, Holger Taggermann, Klaus Turowski.- Customer Interactlã9