TY - CHAP

T1 - Complexity cost management

AU - Schaffer, Jens

AU - Schleich, Hans-Heinrich

PY - 2008/1/1

Y1 - 2008/1/1

N2 - Complexity cost management refers to costs in industrial production processes that are directly or indirectly related to the handling, management or creation of different variants of a product. The current understanding and state of awareness of the influence of complexity on cost structures is reflected in the results of a survey carried out by the authors. The methodology used to analyse the complexity costs of existing processes is described and a case study from the automotive industry, which is highly affected by variant-driven complexity costs, is introduced. Furthermore, a model to calculate potential complexity costs, when changing product variety based on the number of variants, variant drivers and the characteristics of variant drivers, is shown. Finally, an easy-to-handle tool, which allows more detailed determination of complexity costs based on changing product variety parameters, is presented.

AB - Complexity cost management refers to costs in industrial production processes that are directly or indirectly related to the handling, management or creation of different variants of a product. The current understanding and state of awareness of the influence of complexity on cost structures is reflected in the results of a survey carried out by the authors. The methodology used to analyse the complexity costs of existing processes is described and a case study from the automotive industry, which is highly affected by variant-driven complexity costs, is introduced. Furthermore, a model to calculate potential complexity costs, when changing product variety based on the number of variants, variant drivers and the characteristics of variant drivers, is shown. Finally, an easy-to-handle tool, which allows more detailed determination of complexity costs based on changing product variety parameters, is presented.

KW - Engineering

KW - Produktionsmanagement

KW - Supply Chain

KW - Product Variety

KW - Customisation

KW - Line Balance

KW - Lean Manufacturing

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=69549116081&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/70e5ed96-a345-35ed-893e-58c86e5b9e2f/

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-84800-225-8_9

DO - 10.1007/978-1-84800-225-8_9

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-84800-224-1

SP - 155

EP - 174

BT - Build To Order

A2 - Parry, Glenn

A2 - Graves, Andrew

PB - Springer Verlag

CY - Guildford, Surrey [u.a.]

ER -