Mining product configurator data

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Up to now product configurators have been referred to as software to simplify the configuration process for complex products with various features (including services). Configurators particularly include consistency checks in order to permit only valid configurations. Invalid configurations result, for example, from technical reasons as complex products regularly have mutually exclusive features (Lackes and Schnoedt 1999, p 212). Primary users are, for example, salespersons in the businessto-business context that need assistance with complex products. Another application is in the business-to-consumer sector where customers configure a product using their home computer. In some cases a configurator is the constituent component of an order process.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationModern concepts of the theory of the firm : managing enterprises of the New Economy
EditorsGünter Fandel, U. Backes-Gellner, M. Schlüter, J. E. Staufenbiel
Number of pages12
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Publication date01.01.2004
Pages110-121
ISBN (print)978-3-642-07349-6, 3-540-40509-7
ISBN (electronic)978-3-662-08799-2
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Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2004

Bibliographical note

International Conference on Managing Enterprises of the New Economy by Modern Concepts of the Theory of the Firm. Hagen, 2002.12.12-14

    Research areas

  • Management studies - Primary User, Complex Product, Conjoint Analysis, Final Configuration, Product Configurator