Terry Hill

Manufacturing Strategy

Text and Cases

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Currently, in many industrial companies, strategic developments are predominantly based on corporate marketing decisions with manufacturing being forced to react to these at the back end of the process. In ‘Manufacturing Strategy’, Terry Hill sets out to show how decisions over manufacturing should form part of the strategic direction of the company as a whole.

Table of contents:
International Comparisons
Developing a Manufacturing Strategy; Principles and Concepts
Order: Winners and Qualifiers
Developing a Manufacturing Strategy: Methodology
Process Choice
Product Profiling
Focused Manufacturing: Principles and Concepts
Focus: Methodology
Make or Buy and Managing the Supply Chain
Manufacturing Infrastructure Development
Accounting, Finance and Manufacturing Strategy
Case Studies
Case 1: Aztec Holdings, Inc.
Case 2: Control Electronics, Inc.
Case 3: Franklin, Singleton and Cotton
Case 4: Hoffman Tobacco
Case 5: HQ Injection Moulding Company
Case 6: Klein Products
Case 7: Meta Products
Case 8: Millstone Packaging
Case 9: Nolan and Warner Plc
Case 10: Norex Printing Services
Case 11: Ontario Packaging
Case 12: Peterson Carton Services
Case 13: Precision Steel Plc
Case 14: Rumack Pharmaceuticals
Case 15: Santal (SA)
Case 16: Sherpin
Case 17: Shire Products
Case 18: Tama Electronics, Inc.
Case 19: The Great Nuclear Fizzle at Old B & W
Case 20: Tyndall Furniture Company (A)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2nd edition
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780333762226
• ISBN-10: 0333762223
• Artikelnr.: 21369294

Autorenporträt

TERRY HILL is Professor of Operations Management at Templeton College, Oxford and is a leading, international figure in the field of operations management. Before moving into higher education he spent several years in operations management and continues to have a successful consultancy practice.

He has held previous appointments at Bath and Warwick Universities.