Product configuration frameworks-a survey

Sabin, D.D.; Weigel, Randolph R.

doi:10.1109/5254.708432

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“…2) These components interact with each other in predefined way. Based on these features, the configuration process is about providing a list of selected components [36]. In the SaaS context, configuration is aimed to provide each tenant with multitude of options and variations without changing the SaaS application source code and this modification should done by the tenant at run-time without suspend the application during the configuration [11], [21], [37].…”

Section: Configuration and Customizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Configuration as a Service in Multi-Tenant Enterprise Resource Planning System

Al-Shardan¹,

Ziani²

2015

LNSE

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Abstract-Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the organizations tickets to the global market. Thus, organizations can manage and coordinate all functions, processes, resources and data from different departments by a single software. However, many organizations consider the cost of traditional ERP is expensive and look for alternative affordable solutions within their budget. One of these alternative solutions is providing ERP over a software as a service (SaaS) model. A key feature of any SaaS system is the multi-tenancy architecture where multiple customers (tenants) share the system software. However, the SaaS developers accommodate each tenant's unique requirements by allowing tenant-level customization or configuration. While customization requires source code changes and in most cases a programming experience, the configuration process allows user to change many features within a pre-defined scope in an easy and controlled manner. Although literature provides many techniques to accomplish the configuration process in different SaaS systems, the nature and complexity of SaaS ERP are merely described in previous researches. Thus, this research is built on strong knowledge regarding the configuration in SaaS to define specifically the configuration borders in SaaS ERP and to design a configuration service with the consideration of the different configuration aspects.Index Terms-Configuration, software as a service, multi-tenancy, ERP.

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Section: Configuration and Customizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Configuration as a Service in Multi-Tenant Enterprise Resource Planning System

Al-Shardan¹,

Ziani²

2015

LNSE

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“…In the last few decades, rapidly globalizing market forced manufacturers to differentiate their products by focusing more on customer needs and shift their manufacturing paradigm from mass production to mass customization (Sabin & Weigel, 1998). Thus, the primary objective in mass customization can be summarized as to achieve flexibility as well as efficiency in manufacturing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To respond to the variety of customer requirements, such an approach in product design enables customization with alternative components with compatible interfaces. In this perspective, the configuration is described as a task that includes selecting a combination of parts to find a valid and complete product structure within the alternatives of generic architecture (Sabin & Weigel, 1998).…”

Section: Modular Architecture and Configurationmentioning

confidence: 99%

From mass customization to product personalization in automotive industry: potentials of industry 4.0

Kabasakal¹,

Keskin²,

Ventura³

et al. 2017

Pressacademia

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Purpose-Industry 4.0 involves a paradigm shift in marketing management as well as operations management. The recent literature identifies a transformation from mass customization to mass personalization. The purpose of this study is to explore the transformation addressing the Industry 4.0 concepts and recent progress in the automotive industry. Methodology-This study is an exploratory research utilizing case study method. Interviews were carried out with one of the leading automotive brands. Data were analyzed through descriptive analysis. Findings-The case study identifies the product decisions with a focus on customization and personalization themes. Customers' involvement in design process is emphasized as well as customer data for a more customer-oriented strategy. The findings suggest that disruptive technologies provide a basis for mass-personalization strategy. Conclusion-Our case study demonstrates that automotive industry is one of the leading industries that prioritize customer preferences. The customization is achieved through numerous options supported by generic architectures. Nevertheless, personalization represents a higher degree of one-to-one marketing vision. Industry 4.0 contributes to such vision with emerging technologies that facilitate collection and analysis of customer and provide more personalized experience.

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“…Intuitively, a configuration problem [8] is the task of assembling a (sub)set of predefined components in order to build a complex entity that meets a set of requirements. The component types are given a priori and no new type can be introduced during the configuration process.…”

Section: Starmentioning

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Designing a Tool for Configuring an Intelligent and Flexible Web-Based System

Magro

Goy

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Several intelligent Web-based systems need complex reasoning mechanisms and problem solving capabilities in order to perform their tasks. These systems should protect their users against the complexity of their inference engine. Such a protection should be offered both to the final users and to the domain experts that instantiate the Web systems on the different particular domains. We claim that to this purpose an intermediate representation layer, with the role of filling the gap between the implementation-oriented view of the domain (needed by the reasoning module) and the human-oriented view of the same domain (suitable both for the final users and for the domain experts), is required. This intermediate layer also provides a representation which is independent from the specific reasoning approach adopted. In the paper we discuss these issues by referring to a specific example, i.e. the STAR system (a Web-based system which exploits a configuration engine to support the user in organizing a personalized tour) together with STAR-IT, a tool that supports the instantiation of STAR on different domains.

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Product configuration frameworks-a survey

Cited by 357 publications

References 9 publications

Configuration as a Service in Multi-Tenant Enterprise Resource Planning System

Configuration as a Service in Multi-Tenant Enterprise Resource Planning System

From mass customization to product personalization in automotive industry: potentials of industry 4.0

Designing a Tool for Configuring an Intelligent and Flexible Web-Based System

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