Evaluation of product-platform decisions based on total supply chain costs KU Leuven
Over the past decades, several companies have introduced product platforms in the design of their products in order to produce a large product variety in a cost-efficient way. However, for some companies, the introduction of platforms ended up being more costly than expected, leading them to reconsider their platform decisions. In this paper we develop a model to support companies in determining (1) how many platforms to develop, (2) which ...