The role of modularity in the supply chain context: current trends and future research directions

Jayaram, Jayanth; Vickery, Shawnee K.

doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1484574

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“…The concept of modularity can also be applied to SCD (Pashaei and Olhager 2015). SCD modularity is also considered one of the most important strategic design attributes (Duclos, Vokurka, and Lummus 2003;Zhang, Huang, and Rungtusanatham 2008;Khan and Creazza 2009;Simchi-Levi 2013;Jayaram and Vickery 2018). It is important for lowering transaction costs by simplifying SC structures and reducing associated complexity.…”

Section: Product and Supply Chain Modularitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Concurrent design of product and supply chain architectures for modularity and flexibility: process, methods, and application

Gan

Steffan²,

Grunow

et al. 2021

International Journal of Production Research

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Product design and supply chain design are two key determinants of company competitiveness. However, they follow different design objectives and thus require a systematic trade-off. Although methodologies for product design and supply chain design are well established within each domain in research and industry, an integrated methodology that bridges both design domains is still lacking. Based on a recently introduced concurrent product and supply chain design process, we contribute to this underdeveloped research area with a generic approach towards exploring design tradespace. We introduce a detailed operational process for the concurrent design of product and supply chain architectures. To apply this generic process to the specific trade-off between the product-related objective of modularity and the supply-chain-related objective of sourcing flexibility, we also develop new methods for key steps of the process. We demonstrate the application of the process and the developed methods using an industrial case study of a new product (electricvehicle battery module). The case shows that our methodology was able to structure the concurrent design process. It hereby ensured an efficient trade-off and led to high-quality designs.

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Section: Product and Supply Chain Modularitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Concurrent design of product and supply chain architectures for modularity and flexibility: process, methods, and application

Gan

Steffan²,

Grunow

et al. 2021

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Pine (1993) proposes that modularity is a product design architecture that meets customers’ specific demands and maintains low cost, meaning that it is a product design method that specifically focuses on addressing customers’ specific demands while managing cost constraints. Jayaram and Vickery’s (2018) recent summary on supply chain modularity states that modularity may increase product variety while decreasing product complexity. They also state that modularity enables many strategic programs within a supply chain, such as platform-based product development, agility, risk mitigation and sustainability.…”

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Achieving automotive suppliers’ mass customization through modularity

Liao

Deng

et al. 2019

JMTM

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Purpose Previous literature tends to combine postponement and modularity or view them as parallel factors to achieve mass customization (MC) while ignoring the sequence of a firm to design and implement operations and supply chain strategy. Based on a customer-oriented strategy and theories of organizational information processing theory, three-dimensional (3D) concurrent engineering and resource dependency, the purpose of this paper is to propose a sequential model reflecting the sequence of practices as well as an overview picture for a firm to achieve MC. Design/methodology/approach The model links three company antecedents – postponement orientation, operational alignment and information sharing, to three company supply chain practices – product and process modularity and supplier segmentation. These practices, in turn, lead to the company’s MC capabilities. The proposed model is tested with a data set collected from automotive suppliers in China and in the USA. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze the data and test the model. Findings The results suggest that, for suppliers to achieve MC, postponement orientation and operational alignment are vital antecedents. The results also reveal the important responsibility and role of information sharing practices in coordinating suppliers’ modularity practices. Originality/value This research provides three findings that are of value to both academicians and practitioners of supply chain management. First, this study originally proposed and empirically tested that a postponement orientation is an antecedent of product and process modularity and supplier segmentation to achieve MC in the automotive sector, contrary to the traditional view of parallel relationships for both. Second, it developed and verified measures of operational alignment and supplier segmentation for future research use. Third, the vital role of information sharing to coordinate internal and external supply chain practices to achieve MC is empirically supported.

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“…Zhong et al [36] indicated that medical insurance goals should be positioned to common disease and frequently-occurring disease, so as to improve the basic rural medical and healthcare system accessibility and availability, especially to reduce the cost of treatment. Jayaram et al [37] found that when the marginal cost of medical services is high, the existence of medical insurance can increase the utility of patients.…”

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Healthcare Supply Chain Network Coordination Through Medical Insurance Strategies with Reference Price Effect

Gao

Wang

2019

IJERPH

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China has established the universal medical insurance system and individual out of pocket costs have decreased, however, the average healthcare expenditure of the Chinese population and the expenses of the whole society have increased substantially. One major challenge which impedes the progress of attaining sustainable development of the social healthcare system in China is that the number of hospital admissions is disproportionate. Superior hospitals are overcrowded, whereas subordinate hospitals are experiencing low admissions. In this paper, we apply the game theory model to coordinate the healthcare supply chain network, which is composed of the government, medical insurance fund, superior hospitals, subordinate hospitals and patients. Especially by taking the reference price effect into account, this paper analyzes different medical insurance reimbursement strategies and their influence on patient choice and the healthcare supply chain network. The result shows that the reference price effect increases the leverage of medical insurance, guides patients’ choice, optimizes the allocation of medical resources and reduces the medical expends. In comparison to a decentralized decision- making strategy, a centralized decision- making strategy can stimulate both superior hospital and subordinate hospital’s cooperative intentions which benefits the social healthcare system.

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The role of modularity in the supply chain context: current trends and future research directions

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

Concurrent design of product and supply chain architectures for modularity and flexibility: process, methods, and application

Concurrent design of product and supply chain architectures for modularity and flexibility: process, methods, and application

Achieving automotive suppliers’ mass customization through modularity

Healthcare Supply Chain Network Coordination Through Medical Insurance Strategies with Reference Price Effect

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