Achieving Build-to-order Supply Chain Capability through Practices Driven by Supplier Alignment and Supplier Empowerment
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Build-to-order Supply Chain (BOSC) is viewed by many researchers as an effective way to achieve high customer value because BOSC can fulfill an individual or a group of customers" orders while maintaining low cost, cutting inventory cost, eliminating waste, and achieving short response time through flexible manufacturing and integrated logistics.BOSC is needed to support mass customization, which is the ability to make high variety and low cost products and deliver them quickly to meet the diverging needs of customers.Mass customization can be achieved by implementing modularity-based manufacturing practices, postponing production steps that determine product features and performances, and applying IT to coordinate actions and speed up final production and I would like to first give my thanks to my dissertation co-chairs, Dr. Mark A.Vonderembse and Dr. T. S. Ragu-Nathan for their directions, patience, and encouragement.They responded quickly to my drafts and gave their unique insights on the dissertation.At the same time, they always challenged me and looked at every detail.
Author: Kun Liao
Institution: University of Toledo
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2474120436