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Mass Customization in the Fashion and Textile Industry started by raimund.hudak

Relevance and need

Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Setting the research focus
What do we want to study, what is the problem?
Many companies are exploring mass customization as a way to demonstrate market leadership and capture price premiums.
 
The core idea of mass customization is to turncustomers' heterogeneous needs into an opportunity tocreate value, rather than a problem to be minimized, challenging the "one size fits all" assumption of traditional mass production. The concept of mass customization makes business sense in these times. Why wouldn't people want to be treated as individua lcustomers, with products tailored to their specific needs? But mass-customization has been trickier to implement than first anticipated. The key to profiting from mass customization is to see it not as a stand-alone business strategy that is replacing today's production and distribution systems, but as a set of organizational capabilities that can supplement and enrich an existing system.
 

    Case study research objectives

    Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Setting the research focus
    What are the key objectives of the researchers to look at and the knowledge we need to address?
    Every person who has read this should be well informed about Adidas and be an expertat mass customization.
     
    When students are presented with the case, they place themselves in the role of the decision maker as they read through the situation and identify the problem they are faced with. The next step is to perform the necessary analysis - examining the causes and considering alternative courses of actions to come to a set of recommendations.
     
    Subjects to be covered:
       Customization; Distribution; Information management; Production; Project management; Supply chain management
     

      Context

      Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Setting the research focus
      What is the context we need to address?
      The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of supply chain management in enabling manufacturers' mass customization capabilities
      The results generally indicate that plant mass customization capabilities are driven by customer‐focused product design and reduced supplier lead times. In turn, these factors are driven by management's emphasis on supply chain planning. Post hoc tests show that the effects of supply chain planning on mass customization capabilities are fully mediated by customer‐focused product design and reduced supplier lead time.
       
       

        Research question

        Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Setting the research focus
        What is the research question?
        While the literature suggests that mass customization depends upon a dynamic extended enterprise, extant empirical work has focused on internal firm characteristics. 
         
        How is the success of Supply chain management linked to Mass customization?
        Supply chain management involves the close coordination of functional activities across at least three organizations (or individuals), requiring extensive information exchange. Supply chain management, therefore, is a multifaceted concept that comprises a wide range of processes and strategies, including the planning and control of materials and information flows as well as the logistics activities both within and between companies, and a company's relationship with its suppliers and customers (Chen and Paulraj, 2004; Fisher, 1997; Thorelli, 1986).
         
        The case study  and paper is among the first to examine the significance of supply chain management upon the development of mass customization capabilities.
         

          Literature

          Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Preparation
          Identify key literature on the topic
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            Research approach

            Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Preparation
            Define your research approach, consider validity, reliability, sampling etc.
            Although the literature implies that supply chain management should contribute to firms's mass customization capabilities, this relationship has received very little empirical examination. Organizational information processing theory (Galbraith, 1974) sheds some light on the relationship between supply chain management and mass customization. According to this perspective, there is a positive relationship between task uncertainty and the amount of information that must be processed by decision makers during task execution (Kitchen and Spickett‐Jones, 2003). As the organization's information processing needs increase, it must enhance its information processing capabilities so as to keep its operations effective and efficient (Premkumar et al., 2005).
             
            Consequently, supply chain management should facilitate mass customization because such processes increase a firm's upstream and downstream information processing capabilities. Based on a review of the supply chain management and mass customization literature, we identify two supply chain management competences that should impact a firm's mass customization capability: customer focused product design and supplier lead‐time reduction. The development of these operant resources is, in turn, facilitated by a firm's strategic emphasis on supply chain planning. Over the ensuing paragraphs, we introduce theoretic rationale in support of these hypothesized relationships.
             

              Prepare instruments

              Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Data Collection
              Define and prepare your research instruments, operationalization etc.
              A goodgeneral knowledge, specific interest in Adidas and Mass customization
              Researchers at RWTH Aachen are analysing the mass customization atMiAdidas.
                  Prof. Dr. Frank Piller is an international well recognized expert in the studyof Mass Customization.
                  http://frankpiller.com/mass-customization/
                   http://idea-space.eu:19001/up/54959637b7d489baccd2e924a6cc745e.pdf   
               
              Here youcan find some commercials from Adidas and videos about how to create yourmiadidas product online
              Miadidas commercial 2012: Designyour own football boot like Lionel Messi
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              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Mb2BndOPo
               
              How to create your shirt or shorts
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              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCyMQLlggQ
               
               

                Case study layout

                Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Data Analysis
                Prepare the data and distribute roles for data analysis
                Examines Adidas' recent "mi adidas"initiative, aimed at delivering customized athletic footwear to retailcustomers. 
                 
                Discusses thepractical implications associated with expanding the initiative from a smallpilot to a wider operation with retail presence. 
                 
                Enables thereader to evaluate an interlinked set of issues, from marketing, retailerselection, and information management through production and distribution,project management, and strategic fit.
                 
                Offers threealternative routes for moving forward and challenges participants to decide thefuture direction of "mi adidas."
                 

                  Analyze, Elaborate, iterate

                  Posted by raimund.hudak in category: Data Analysis
                  Analyse and elaborate on the findings, iterate and reach the key results of your research effort
                  Key objective: Complete knowledge about the relevance of Supply chain management and the linkage with Mass customization at the example of miadidas
                   
                  The increasing importance of supply chain management has been progressively acknowledged by both business practitioners and academic researchers. However, its relationship with mass customization has not been sufficiently acknowledged or investigated in depth. 
                   
                  In this study, students will provide a first view of  a theoretical foundation for this relationship, grounded in the service‐dominant logic (Vargo and Lusch, 2004). While much attention has been paid to the most visible elements of mass customization experiences (e.g., web‐based interfaces), successful mass customization strategies are truly the result of value co‐creation processes that occur across the entire span of the supply chain. Thus, mass customization capability is built upon the acquisition or development of customer‐facing and supplier‐facing operant resources. In turn, the accumulation of such resources depends upon the strategic emphasis mass customizing firms place on the supply chain planning process.
                   

                    Write, iterate

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                    Write the publication and iterate towards a harmonized article
                     

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                        The following link shows thePowerPoint presentation of the student research work at the MBA class at theuniversity of applied science Pforzheim in 2014. The case study was part of thesyllabus and examination.
                        http://idea-space.eu:19001/up/8267d0391207973ebc402d0609cfd7e2.pptx 
                         
                         
                        The following links show the PowerPointpresentationand the term paperof the student researchs work at the IBA class at theDuale Hochschule DHBW Heilbronn in 2015. The case study was part of thesyllabus and examination.
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                         http://idea-space.eu:19001/up/a512fb2d471c5585a5b145e8b282a753.docx 
                         
                         

                          Refine and plan next steps

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                          In case of revision or outcomes, refine the work and continue towards common research agenda