Effective manufacturing management calls for integration between strategic subsystems. In manufacturing, this means that decisions on structure and infrastructure must be co‐ordinated and support the competitive strategy. Traditionally, manufacturing management has, to a large extent, been...

This article examines the current relationship between Swedish manufacturers and their suppliers. Emphasis is put on the demands placed on the suppliers by the manufacturers, on the internal suppliers′ activities causing this demand, and on the future plans and programmes pursued by the...

Asks how implementation management affects implementation uncertainty, adaptation cycles and performance. Assesses retrospective case studies of three Swedish FMS implementation processes. The cases represent technically similar systems, but with different project characteristics and degrees of...

New technical innovations in the form of new production technologies are known to affect productivity, but organisational innovations and new ways of designing products have now been found to have a profound influence on productivity. These innovations have moved the industrialised countries...

Over the last twenty years, there has been an increasing number of factors that have placed the manufacturing strategies of companies and countries in a global context. This book reviews and addresses the global manufacturing strategy area through research in the four major economic areas of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore different units of analysis applicable to the analysis of healthcare service supply chains. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review, conceptual analysis and two case studies based on process mapping and...

Purpose Modularity promises to relieve problems of complexity in service systems. However, limited evidence exists of its application in specialized hospital services. The purpose of this paper is to identify enablers, constraints, and outcomes of modularization in specialized hospital services....