Manufacturing into the late 1990s : the external pressures and opportunities facing manufacturers in the 1990s - and how they can use their manufacturing capability to rise to the challenge
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Manufacturing into the late 1990s : the external pressures and opportunities facing manufacturers in the 1990s - and how they can use their manufacturing capability to rise to the challenge
H.M.S.O., 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161) and index
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Description
Successful businesses comprehensively satisfy their customers, and in so doing, make sufficient profits for further investment, and a good return for the stakeholders in the business. The challenge for management is how to achieve these things consistently from year to year, exploiting opportunities, applying best practice, overcoming problems. This report is not intended to provide a prescriptive solution for manufacturing management, rather a framework around which businesses can build their own strategy, together with examples of best practice concepts which are worthy of consideration.
Table of Contents
- Section A - The Drivers for the 1990s: 1. The manufacturing business in context
- 2. The world economy
- 3. Demographic and lifestyle trends
- 4. Environmental factors
- 5. Markets, products and services
- 6. Competitors
- 7. Technology
- 8. Suppliers
- 9. Summary of drivers. Section B - Business Strategy: 1. A strategy for your business. Section C - The Manufacturing Response: 1. Developing the manufacturing strategy
- 2. Successful product introduction
- 3. Better factories
- 4. Integrated logistics
- 5. Better organization
- 6. Integrated information
- 7. Summary of manufacturing responses.
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