Greener Information Systems for Product Configuration Management: Towards Adaptation to Sustainability Requirements

Anders Jakobsen, Torben Tambo, Maja Kadenic

2024

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the need to reconceptualize the dimension of product life-cycle management systems related to product configuration to embrace data of the specific sustainability impact of the configuration choices. While this is very much related to physical products, the information systems dimension is fundamental to include to model, decide, document, trace and review sustainability of products. This paper is based on a longitudinal case study along with a comprehensive literature review. Key findings related to the isolation of product configuration systems as key determinants for specific sustainability in a governed and traceable form. These systems do largely not cover sustainability as of today: A redesign is needed. A research agenda is outlined combining sustainability-thinking with socio-technical design. A proposal for the design is presented using a multi-level, multi-tier approach to Product Configuration Systems. The process has major implications around in the industry as legislators are mandating extensive documentation for specific choices and documentation of the sustainability impact of physical products.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jakobsen A., Tambo T. and Kadenic M. (2024). Greener Information Systems for Product Configuration Management: Towards Adaptation to Sustainability Requirements. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 100-109. DOI: 10.5220/0012737200003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Anders Jakobsen and Torben Tambo and Maja Kadenic},
title={Greener Information Systems for Product Configuration Management: Towards Adaptation to Sustainability Requirements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={100-109},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012737200003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - Greener Information Systems for Product Configuration Management: Towards Adaptation to Sustainability Requirements
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Jakobsen A.
AU - Tambo T.
AU - Kadenic M.
PY - 2024
SP - 100
EP - 109
DO - 10.5220/0012737200003690
PB - SciTePress