Global Manufacturing Strategy

Abstract

Functional Strategies to achieve tho:;e goals constitute manufacturing strategy of a firm. Cost, quality, delivery performance, and flexibility are the most common criteria to evaluate performance of a manufacturing system. It should be noted that firms are not in a position to choose between cost and quality or de pendability and flexibility objectives. Empirical studies did not justify the existence of such tradeoffs suggested in early conceptual work on manufac turing strategy. In accordance with the intensive rivalry in global industries, innovativeness and time-based competition are also emerging as important manufacturing objectives. Policies that enable a firm to meet its long term goals comprise a collection of strategic decisions. Leong et al. [756] pointed out the consensus among several authors about the strategic decision areas for manufacturing. Manufacturing strategy decisions can be categorized as structural decisions that are associated with confi gu ration of the manufac turing facilities, and inf rastructural decisions that address the people and systems that run the manufacturing activity. Structural decisions include location of the manufacturing facilities, and the manufacturing technology to be adopted as well as the capacity to be built-in at each facility. The decisions concerning the linkages among the facilities that perform different

Global supply chain design: A literature review and critique

“…These include Verter and Dincer, 1992, Verter and Dincer, 1995, Vidal and Goetschalckx, 1997, Goetschalckx et al, 2002, Cohen and Mallik, 1997, Cohen and Huchzermeier, 1999and Schmidt and Wilhelm, 2000. Many of these reviews seek a missing technical feature in the existing model-based literature concerning global supply chain design.…”

Global supply chain network design problem with rules of origin and limited import quotas

“…Cohen and Lee (1989) extended it into a multi-period global supply chain model. Verter and Dincer (1995) summarized the analytical models relevant to facility location decisions for a global company. Rosenfield (1996) developed a model to describe production and distribution costs for an international location problem with uncertain exchange rates.…”

A production, distribution and investment model for a multinational company

“…However, analytical modeling in this field is relatively new (Cohen and Mallik, 1997). Recent literature surveys on this topic can be found in the work of Verter and Dincer (1992, 1995), Cohen and Kleindorfer (1993), Vidal and Goetschalckx (1997) and Cohen and Mallik (1997).…”