Kluwer Academic Publishers,USA, Oct.1999.300pp; ISBN # 0-7923-8671-X
Professor N.Viswanadham 
Bio-data
Overview
Manufacturing Enterprises are networks of companies in alliance, sharing
the same destiny for mutual business advantage. In such networks, the
material and information flows---from raw material production to retailer
sales---are optimally and collaboratively managed to create value to the
customers and stakeholders.Such networks are a common occurrence in auto,
grocery, apparel, computer, and other industries. The first part of the book
focuses on foundations of manufacturing enterprises : the generic value
delivery processes, their performance measures and redesign to meet
specifications on lead time and defect levels. The second part, then provides
a comprehensive discussion on new product development, order to delivery,
and supply chain processes, the core processes in a manufacturing enterprise.
Key Features
- First book covering physics and dynamics of manufacturing enterprises.
- First book to identify and describe methods to determine the performance measures of a value delivery process such as lead time, cost, quality, capacity and flexibility.
- Discusses recent research and industry trends in global manufacturing networks such as process decomposition, process levels and redesign, inter-organizational information systems, modelling value delivery processes.
- Provides a large number of problems and exercises including those with research and field-work flavor.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Traditional vs Modern Enterprises, Examples, Organization of the book
- Architecture of a manufacturing Enterprise - The business process decomposition, Types of business processes, Examples, Characteristics of a well managed process, Competitive strategy, core competencies and core capabilities
- Organization Structure - Typical organization structures including process based and networked structures.
- Process Performance Measures - Functional vs Process measures, Lead time, Quality, Capacity, Reliability. Cost, Asset utilization, and Flexibility
- Measurement, Benchmarking and Process Redesign - Strategy, processes and measures, Process measures, Benchmarking, Process rating , levels, and redesign
- The New Product Development Process - Product development strategies, New product creation process, Stage-gate system and Type I and Type II errors, Cycle time, Bench marking
- Order to Delivery process - Description of ODP, Information sharing and best practices, Customer service, Performance measures: Lead time, cost and flexibility
- Supply Chain Process Management - Fundamentals, Decisions in supply chains, Configuration of Supply chain networks, Effective supply chain management, Performance measures, Benchmarking and organization structure.
- Epilogue
- Exercises
- Index
Link to Book Announcement on Kluwer Acadmic Publishers Website.
New Book on Analysis of Manufacturing
Enterprises