Supply Chains and Total Product Systems

A Reader

Ed Rhodes, James P. Warren, Ruth Carter, Ed Rhodes, James P. Warren, Ruth Carter

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781405124096, 9781405124102
• eBook ISBN: 9781405153089
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Operations
• Index: Business

This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems.

• Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chains and supply networks to organizational performance and to a range of business functions, including finance, design, production, environmental management, information systems, and marketing.
  
• Considers sustainable supply chain management across the service, manufacturing and process sectors.
  
• Reflects the radical changes in organizational beliefs, practices and processes that are necessary for a shift to supply chain management in contemporary, global, competitive conditions.
  
• Considers particular issues and challenges for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
  
• Contains readings that are interdisciplinary and international in focus.

Table of contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Editors ’ Note
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to the Reader
• Part 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
• 1.1 From Supply Chains to Total Product Systems
• 1.2 Supply Chain Management: Relationships,Chains and Networks
• 1.3 Globalisation and Unequalisation:What Can Be Learned from Value Chain Analysis?
• 1.4 Lean Production and the Toyota Production System – Or,,the Case of the Forgotten Production Concepts
• 1.5 Lean Production in a Changing Competitive World:A Japanese Perspective
• 1.6 Integrating the Supply Chain:Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution
• 1.7 Intangibles:The Soft Side of Innovation
• 1.8 The Environmental Challenge for Supply Chain Management
• Part 2 Inter-Organizational Relationships
• 2.1 Buyer –Supplier Relationships: A Case Study of a Japanese and Western Alliance
• 2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls in Supplier Development
• 2.3 Japanese Automakers, US Suppliers and Supply Chain Superiority
• 2.4 Innovation and Competition in UK Supermarkets
• 2.5 The Similarity and Heterogeneity Theses in Studying Innovation: Evidence from the End-of-Life Vehicle Case
• 2.6 Supply Chains and Management Accounting
• 2.7 Approaches to Child Labour in the Supply Chain
• Part 3 Change within Organizations
• 3.1 Manufacturing Strategy Regained:Evidence for the Demise of Best Practice
• 3.2 A Third-Culture Plant
• 3.3 Lean Production: A Study of Application in a Traditional Manufacturing Environment
• 3.4 Lean Production and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
• 3.5 Supporting Small Businesses in Their Transition to Lean Production
• 3.6 Change Processes towards Lean Production:The Role of the Management Accounting System
• 3.7 Target Costing as a Strategic Tool
• 3.8 Supply Chain Management for Recoverable Manufacturing Systems
• Part 4 Issues for SMEs
• 4.1 The Secrets of Industry Are in the Air or on the Jungle Drums in the Village:Traded and Untraded Knowledge and Expertise: Interdependencies between SMEs
• 4.2 Global Production and Local Jobs:Can Global Enterprise Networks Be Used as Levers for Local Development?
• 4.3 The Role of an Integrator Organisation in a Virtual Supply Chain
• 4.4 Issues on Partnering: Evidence from Subcontracting in Aeronautics
• 4.5 Implementation of Just-in-Time Methodology in a Small Company
• 4.6 Learning from Others: Benchmarking in Diverse Tourism Enterprises
• 4.7 E-Business and E-Supply Strategy in Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs)
• Index