TY - JOUR
T1 - Modularity as a support for frugal product and supplier network co-definition under regional market constraints
T2 - a mirroring hypothesis application
AU - Belkadi, Farouk
AU - Vlachou, Ekaterini
AU - Kumar-Gupta, Ravi
AU - Zogopoulos, Vasilios
AU - Kaya, Metin
AU - Bernard, Alain
AU - Mourtzis, Dimitris
AU - Natalizio, Stéphane
AU - Büyükdığan, Bekir Gökhan
AU - Tekin Bayrak, Izlem
N1 - Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme research and innovation program under grant agreement no. [636966].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/10/18
Y1 - 2018/10/18
N2 - Creating new products or adapting existing ones to fit with specific customer requirements from regional as well as emerging markets is a challenging issue for competitive companies that work to maintain acceptable market share rates. Besides the importance of providing original solutions tailored to the target market characteristics, companies should consider their production strategy as a key factor for reaching frugality objectives under regional constraints. The co-evolution of product and production network aims to provide a concurrent design and management of product architecture, local production systems, and OEM–suppliers relationships. This paper proposes a modular-based approach as an application of the mirroring hypothesis for supporting the co-definition of product structure and supplier network. Supplier selection and evaluation method for frugal innovation perspective is proposed as a key part of the proposed approach and applied in an industrial use case for validation.
AB - Creating new products or adapting existing ones to fit with specific customer requirements from regional as well as emerging markets is a challenging issue for competitive companies that work to maintain acceptable market share rates. Besides the importance of providing original solutions tailored to the target market characteristics, companies should consider their production strategy as a key factor for reaching frugality objectives under regional constraints. The co-evolution of product and production network aims to provide a concurrent design and management of product architecture, local production systems, and OEM–suppliers relationships. This paper proposes a modular-based approach as an application of the mirroring hypothesis for supporting the co-definition of product structure and supplier network. Supplier selection and evaluation method for frugal innovation perspective is proposed as a key part of the proposed approach and applied in an industrial use case for validation.
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U2 - 10.1080/00207543.2018.1481300
DO - 10.1080/00207543.2018.1481300
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049633510
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 56
SP - 6575
EP - 6590
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 20
ER -
