Product configuration: a review of the state-of-the-art and future research

LL Zhang - International Journal of Production Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Being able to provide companies with a number of advantages in delivering customised
products, product configuration has received increasing attention from the academia and …

Enterprise resource planning systems: An assessment of applicability to make-to-order companies

B Aslan, M Stevenson, LC Hendry - Computers in Industry, 2012 - Elsevier
Many vendors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems claim their products are
widely applicable–configurable to meet the needs of any business, whatever the product or …

Product configurator impact on product quality

A Trentin, E Perin, C Forza - International Journal of Production Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
More and more firms today rely on product configurators to more efficiently and effectively
meet increasingly diverse customers' needs. In literature, however, the discussion of the …

A B2B flexible pricing decision support system for managing the request for quotation process under e-commerce business environment

KH Leung, CC Luk, KL Choy, HY Lam… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In the era of digitalisation, e-commerce retail sites have become decisive channels for
reaching millions of potential customers worldwide. Digital marketing strategies are …

Increasing the consumer-perceived benefits of a mass-customization experience through sales-configurator capabilities

A Trentin, E Perin, C Forza - Computers in Industry, 2014 - Elsevier
The consumer's experience of self-customizing a product with a sales configurator can be a
source of experience-related benefits for the consumer, above and beyond the traditionally …

Definition and evaluation of product configurator development strategies

A Haug, L Hvam, NH Mortensen - Computers in industry, 2012 - Elsevier
Product configurators represent one of the most successful applications of artificial
intelligence principles. Product configurators are a subtype of software-based expert …

The main challenges for manufacturing companies in implementing and utilizing configurators

K Kristjansdottir, S Shafiee, L Hvam, C Forza… - Computers in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Companies providing customized products increasingly apply configurators in supporting
sales and design activities, thus improving lead-times, quality, cost, benefits perceived by …

Sales configurator capabilities to avoid the product variety paradox: Construct development and validation

A Trentin, E Perin, C Forza - Computers in Industry, 2013 - Elsevier
Sales configurators are applications designed to support potential customers in choosing,
within a company's product offer, the product solution that best fits their needs. These …

Establishing a maturity model for design automation in sales-delivery processes of ETO products

O Willner, J Gosling, P Schönsleben - Computers in Industry, 2016 - Elsevier
Short delivery times are considered a competitive advantage in the engineer-to-order (ETO)
sector. Design-related tasks contribute to a substantial amount of delivery times and costs …

The documentation of product configuration systems: A framework and an IT solution

S Shafiee, L Hvam, A Haug, M Dam… - Advanced Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
When designing and maintaining a product configuration system (PCS), complete and up-to-
date documentation of the system is needed in the form of a product model that outlines the …