Second Century Reconnecting Customer and Value Chain Through Build-to-Order

Name: Second Century Reconnecting Customer and Value Chain Through Build-to-Order
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ISBN: 9780262582629

ISBN-10: 0262582627

ISBN-13: 9780262582629

Edition: 2005

Authors: Matthias Holweg, Frits K. Pil

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Holweg & Pil offer a comprehensive look at the dysfunctional nature of value-chain strategies in the automobile industry, then systematically discuss the product & process changes needed to bring about responsiveness to customer needs through build-to-order.

Book details

List price: $5.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748

Matthias Holweg is Lecturer at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge.

Frits K. Pil is Assistant Professor at the Katz Graduate School of Business and a Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh.



Acknowledgments


At the Dawn of the Second Automotive Century



Disassembling the "Order-to-Delivery" Process



Old Habits Die Hard



Thirty Days to Production and Counting



Production, Distribution, and the Best We Can Expect



Band-Aid Solutions to Stem Red Ink



Islands of Excellence



Volume-the Holy Grail



Shifting the Metal



The Case for Build-to-Order



Ripping the Lid off the Revenue Box



Closing Arguments



Three Dimensions of Responsiveness: Process, Product, and Volume



Process Flexibility and Customer Demand



Process Flexibility and Demand Visibility



Process Flexibility and Production



Process Flexibility and Suppliers



Process Flexibility and Logistics



Product Flexibility



Volume Flexibility


Breaking the Cycle


Notes


Index