Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Value Chain: Proceedings of the International Conference of the Manufacturing Value-Chain August ‘98, Troon, Scotland, UK

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Role of High Technology in a Regional Economy....Pages 3-10
Evolution of ERP Systems....Pages 11-23
Industrial and Academic Collaboration: adding to Britain’s value chain....Pages 25-34
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Impact of Supplier Hubs on the Scottish Electronics Industry....Pages 37-44
Transforming Organisations — (some) insights from complexity Theory....Pages 45-52
Three Manufacturing Strategy Archetypes — A Framework for the UK Aerospace Industry....Pages 53-60
Computer assistance to strategies....Pages 61-68
Aligning strategic objectives with organizational processes: a methodology for virtual enterprise implementation....Pages 69-76
Strategic management of the integrated design of product and production system....Pages 77-84
The implications of strategic purchasing decisions on the value chain....Pages 85-92
Creating competitive factories — Speeding up the innovation process in factory design using Virtual Reality as a new engineering tool....Pages 93-104
Meeting the ecological challenge by Value Chain enlargement and enrichment....Pages 105-112
Strategy and operation in dynamic interaction....Pages 113-122
New Product Development to Achieve Customer Values: A Case Study Approach....Pages 123-130
Design support methodology using quality function deployment with feature-based reasoning....Pages 131-139
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Agile Manufacturing: One Size Does Not Fit All....Pages 143-150
A Generic Concept for Reducing Complexity in International Operations — An Asymptotic Strive for Manufacturing Simplicity....Pages 151-158
Economical Analysis of High Volume Flexible Manufacturing System for Agile Manufacturing....Pages 159-166
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Maintaining reliability of business processes using active monitoring techniques....Pages 169-176
Integrated Performance Measurement Systems: Implementation Case Studies....Pages 177-184
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Research into the behavioural aspects of performance measures....Pages 185-192
Benchmarking Organisational and Operational Development....Pages 193-200
Camicase....Pages 201-207
Performance Measurement and Relationship Management in the Automotive Supply Chain....Pages 209-216
A structured approach to performance measurement and benchmarking for manufacturing enterprises....Pages 217-226
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Evaluating value streams to achieve lean production in large assembly manufacturing systems utilizing virtual enterprise relationships....Pages 229-238
Interorganizational network classification — A framework for studying industrial networks....Pages 239-247
Manufacturing in Networks — Competitive Advantages for Virtual Enterprises....Pages 249-257
Effective supply chain management: theory and practice....Pages 259-266
Third-Party Logistics: Development and success factors in three alliances....Pages 267-276
Analysis of the Order Penetration Point Alternatives in the Nordic Paper Industry Supply Chains....Pages 277-286
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How to Manage your Supply Network to get better results....Pages 289-296
Partnering Strategy Implementation in the Supply Chain....Pages 297-304
Reconfiguring the Value Chain to Implement Postponed Manufacturing....Pages 305-313
Manufacturing Franchising and Enterprise Networks....Pages 315-322
Solving manufacturing problems — From here on or with an eye looking in the rear-view mirror?....Pages 323-330
The role of time variability in supply chains — a multiple case study....Pages 331-342
A Constraint-Based Methodology for Effective Supply Chain Management....Pages 343-351
Evaluating buyer-supplier relationships for international procurement....Pages 353-360
Industrial buyer-supplier partnerships: guidelines for a successful marriage....Pages 361-368
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Evolution of partnering relationships: a supply chain perspective....Pages 369-377
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Variants management and extended enterprise models for the car maker’s factory of the future....Pages 381-389
A rule-based support system to Make or Buy decision....Pages 391-400
Balanced production planning and control in production networks....Pages 401-410
The implications of interrelationships for decision making processes in companies along the supply chain....Pages 411-419
DOMAIN: Dynamic Operations Management Across the Internet....Pages 421-429
An Extended Manufacturing Management Model: Control Principles and Aspects in Production Networks....Pages 431-438
Education and Training Requirements Specification for Implementation of Manufacturing Control Systems....Pages 439-446
Designing scheduling concept and computer support in the food processing industries....Pages 447-454
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Organisational Learning Through the Evaluation of Information System Investments....Pages 457-464
Project Management, a bit of communication helps too, on succeeding....Pages 465-472
Real-time Design Control of Manufacturing Operations....Pages 473-480
Information Resources Management for Customer Focus in Small Manufacturing Companies....Pages 481-488
Enterprise-wide versus Best of Breed manufacturing solutions: providing a structured approach to systems strategy selection....Pages 489-496
Supporting SME information systems development using a structured method and tool for package selection....Pages 497-504
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The Latest Modeling and Implementation Techniques for an Extended Production Management System....Pages 507-515
Design of logistic processes by the Factor-Indicator-Model....Pages 517-525
Production performance measurement and improvement based on the exchange of expert knowledge....Pages 527-534
Developing the manufacturing value chain through simulation — The Finnish Enterprise Simulation Laboratory project....Pages 535-543
Tools and techniques for modelling production systems....Pages 545-552
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Simple systems — simple models?....Pages 553-560
Process re-engineering — commitment, consultants and all that stuff!....Pages 561-567
A Sporadic Customer Order Processing Model and Case Study for the Consumer Goods Industry....Pages 569-576
Object-oriented Product/Production Model — Integration Concept and Application in Production Management....Pages 577-584
Virtual Supply Chain Management System: A decision support system using discrete event simulation....Pages 585-592
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The Strategic Role of Quality Management in the Brazilian Auto Parts Industry: An Empirical Study....Pages 595-602
12 steps in organizing a virtual enterprise for car suppliers — a case study....Pages 603-610
Practical considerations to achieve a strategic fit in the development of manufacturing ventures in developing countries....Pages 611-621
Using Expert Systems in Blast Furnace Operation — a few preliminary impressions....Pages 623-630
Outsourcing for Competitive Advantage....Pages 631-643
Supply Chain Management: An Empirical Study in Brazil....Pages 645-652