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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2015-05-01

发表刊物：Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

收录刊物：EI、Scopus

卷号：19

期号：3

页面范围：423-429

ISSN号：13430130

摘要：E-commerce makes it possible to promote mass customization in practice. Manufacturers provide custom product which enables customers to select each components of the product from several variants according to their own preferences. Providing custom product increases the complexity of the inventory management, and the characteristics of inventory cost are different with those of common product. For custom product orders under e-commerce circumstances are significantly random and fluctuant, we research on this issue in the discrete system simulation method. We consider a same kind of product which is manufactured in either way of the common case and the custom case, design inventory cost simulation models for both situations supposing they adopt (s, S) inventory strategy. The results show that although the mass customization makes the inventory system more complicated, it could bring some benefits to inventory management. Compared with the inventory cost of common product, the inventory cost of custom product could be even lower and less sensitive about the product price, the change of purchase volumes and the order quantity. The conclusions could be suggestive for practice and provide confidence to manufacturers when they hesitate to supply custom products.