Approach to visualize the supply chain complexity induced by product variety

First published in
DS  
Number in series
68,5
Start Page
249
End Page
258
Citation
ICED 11 - 18th International Conference on Engineering Design - Impacting Society Through Engineering Design ; 15th - 18th August 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark. - (DS / Design Society ; 68). - Vol. 5: Seite 249-258 (20111)
Contribution to Conference
18th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2011  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84858822439
Publisher
Design Society
Due to the high level of individualization and globalization, companies increase their product variety, which leads to an increased internal complexity at the level of the products business processes and the supply chain. The Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design (PKT) has developed the Integrated PKT approach for developing modular product families, to reduce the internal variety with methods, that are aiming to handle, to reduce and to avoid complexity. To extend this approach to the level of the supply chain, the method Design for Supply Chain Requirements is under development. The important first step is to ascertain and to visualize the supply chain complexity induced by product variety. An approach to realize this first step is presented in this paper.
Subjects
Complexity
Design for Supply Chain Requirements
Product variety
Supply chain
DDC Class
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften
670: Industrielle Fertigung