Manufacturing Strategy Text and Cases

Name: Manufacturing Strategy Text and Cases
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ISBN: 9780256230727

ISBN-10: 0256230722

ISBN-13: 9780256230727

Edition: 3rd 2000

Authors: Terry J. Hill

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Now with more examples and coverage of supply-chain, logistics, product design and quality, and accounting aspects of manufacturing, this text presents the author's well-known Order Winner Criteria for manufacturing.

Book details

List price: $164.06
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 12/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

International Comparisons	p. 1
Manufacturing Output	p. 1
Productivity: National Comparisons	p. 5
Productivity: Plant-Level Comparisons	p. 7
Why Have These Trends in Manufacturing Happened?	p. 9
Manufacturing Strategy	p. 13
Conclusion	p. 15
Developing a Manufacturing Strategy--Principles and Concepts	p. 19
Functional Strategies	p. 20
Strategies versus Philosophies	p. 21
Functional Dominance within Corporate Strategy	p. 22
Reasons for Manufacturing's Reactive Role in Corporate Strategy	p. 23
The Content of Corporate Strategy	p. 27
Developing a Manufacturing Strategy	p. 29
Order-Winners and Qualifiers	p. 35
The Procedure for Establishing Order-Winners and Qualifiers	p. 39
Understanding the Criteria Chosen and Their Relative Weightings	p. 41
The Outputs of Manufacturing Strategy	p. 43
Manufacturing Typically Develops More Than One Strategy	p. 44
Conclusion	p. 45
Order-Winners and Qualifiers	p. 49
Strategic Scenarios and Approaches	p. 49
Strategic Vacuum	p. 50
Understanding Markets	p. 51
Characteristics of Today's Markets--Difference and Speed of Change	p. 51
Order-Winners and Qualifiers--Basic Characteristics	p. 52
Order-Winners and Qualifiers--Specific Dimensions	p. 53
Benchmarking	p. 78
Determining Order-Winners and Qualifiers	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 83
Developing a Manufacturing Strategy--Methodology	p. 87
Genetic Strategies: Today's Version of the Alchemist's Stone	p. 88
The Nature of Strategy: Directional and Iterative	p. 89
Checking Markets	p. 89
Relating Manufacturing to Agreed Markets	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 107
Process Choice	p. 109
Process Choice	p. 110
Business Implications of Process Choice	p. 118
Selected Business Implications	p. 123
An Overview of Process Choice	p. 128
Hybrid Processes	p. 130
Review of the Use of Numerical Control (NC) in Hybrid Processes	p. 139
Corporate Manufacturing Responses to Similar Markets	p. 140
Technology Strategy	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 143
Product Profiling	p. 145
The Need to Expand Manufacturing Strategy's Language Base	p. 146
Product Profiling	p. 146
Company-Based Profiles	p. 148
Product-Based Profiles	p. 154
Using Product Profiling	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 157
Focused Manufacturing--Principles and Concepts	p. 159
Focused Manufacturing	p. 160
Trade-Offs in Focused Manufacturing	p. 164
Alternative Approaches to Focused Manufacturing	p. 165
Plant-within-a-Plant Configuration	p. 166
Focus and the Product Life Cycle	p. 167
Progression or Regression in Focused Manufacturing	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 171
Focused Manufacturing--Methodology	p. 175
Origins of Existing Plants	p. 175
Moving to Focused Plants	p. 176
Steps toward Focused Plants	p. 178
Focus Regression versus Focus Progression	p. 181
Implementing Focus: Examples and Illustrations	p. 181
Focused Plants: Outcomes	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 185
Make or Buy and Managing the Supply Chain	p. 187
Reasons for Choosing Whether to Make or Buy	p. 187
Issues Involved in Changing Make-or-Buy Decisions	p. 193
Levels of Vertical Integration	p. 197
The Hollow Corporation	p. 201
Alternatives to Widening the Internal Span of Process	p. 205
Managing the Supply Chain	p. 207
Supply Chain Management Issues	p. 208
Developing the Supply Chain	p. 213
Aspects of Change	p. 217
Summary of Benefits	p. 221
Conclusion	p. 227
Manufacturing Infrastructure Development	p. 231
Manufacturing Infrastructure Issues	p. 233
Infrastructure Development	p. 235
Organizational Issues	p. 238
Operational Effects of Structural Decisions	p. 243
Strategy-Based Alternatives	p. 244
Operational Control	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 264
Accounting, Finance, and Manufacturing Strategy	p. 267
Investment Decisions	p. 268
The Need for a Strategic View of Investments	p. 269
Operating Controls and Information	p. 283
The Simplistic Nature of Accounting Information	p. 284
The Need for Accounting System Development	p. 286
Conclusion	p. 293
Anonke Apparel Company, Limited	p. 297
Aztec Holdings, Inc.	p. 321
Control Electronics Inc.	p. 333
Franklin, Singleton and Cotton	p. 347
Hoffmann Tobacco	p. 354
HQ Injection Molding Company	p. 365
Klein Products	p. 381
Meta Products	p. 391
Millstone Packaging	p. 407
Nolan and Warner Plc.	p. 413
Norex Printing Services	p. 420
Ontario Packaging	p. 431
Peterson Carton Services	p. 434
Precision Steel Plc	p. 452
Ransom Electronic Products	p. 467
Rumack Pharmaceuticals	p. 477
Sherpin	p. 485
Shire Products	p. 493
Tama Electronics Inc.	p. 514
The Great Nuclear Fizzle at Old B and W	p. 522
Tyndall Furniture Company (A)	p. 531
Tyndall Furniture Company (B)	p. 539
Tyndall Furniture Company (C)	p. 552
Winkler, A. G.	p. 563
Index	p. 582
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