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The creation, updating and pointing of the full set of the Bills of Materials corresponding to each end-product is extremely complex in a mass customization context, because of the great variety of both end products and components and the existence of commercial and technical constraints between the alternative components (AC) ensuring that variety. Customers can no longer define their product requirements by specifying a list of components and sales department cannot issue forecasts either at end-product or component level. Within the last two decades, to address these difficulties, some carmakers developed a new approach to describe products. This product description, which does not seem to have ever been theorized in the literature, is based on product market features through the concept of alternative services. The conversion to a physical Bill of Materials – that remain mandatory for the Master Production Schedule definition and for the production activities – is done through the use of predicates. In this paper we first develop this new approach and then describe an application for drawing up MPSs, that is not straightforward beyond the frozen horizon.
mass customization, planning bill of materials, generic bill of materials, alternative services, master production schedule, automotive industry.
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