Organizing the Extended Enterprise : IFIP TC5 / WG5.7 International Working Conference on Organizing the Extended Enterprise 15–18 September 1997, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Intensive cooperation with suppliers has become an integral part of production management. In recent years two further developments have gained ground. On the one hand enterprises have been specialising and concentrating on their core competencies with outsourcing as a consequence, on the other hand globalization has intensified the range of choice among suppliers. Increased dependence on suppliers called for new forms of cooperative ventures. Strategic and legal issues had to be considered and production management had to include sophisticated logistic chain management. These developments have led to the concept of `Extended Enterprise'. Among many other topics, this book discusses: co-operation between companies; supply chain management; agile and virtual management; integration of the logistic chain; and production and logistical strategies. The book comprises the proceedings of the Working Conference on Organizing the Extended Enterprise, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), which was held in Ascona, Switzerland in September 1997. It will be of great importance to researchers, managers and consultants in production, logistics and information and other areas of organizational development. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Emergence of the Interprise....Pages 3-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Variable Production Networks — Successful Operating in an “Alliance of the Best”....Pages 19-31 Perspectives for executive information, decision support and information management in the extended enterprise....Pages 32-44 Partnering along the construction logistics chain....Pages 45-58 The organization of the Self-Innovative Extended Factory in the Manu F uturing Model....Pages 59-67 VEGA*: Cooperating Support Systems for Virtual Enterprises....Pages 68-81 Criteria-oriented order allocation in a multisite production structure — A decision support instrument for the clothing industry....Pages 82-92 Manufacturing Systems Engineering for the Extended Enterprise....Pages 93-103 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Manufacturing franchising for managing the extended enterprise....Pages 107-118 Clothing Industry 2000: The Archetype of the Extended Enterprise....Pages 119-134 Planning in Virtual Enterprises....Pages 135-144 Building up a virtual organisation....Pages 145-157 SMEs in Supply Chain: a Supplier Evaluation Model and some empirical results....Pages 158-175 Build and operate logistic chains — An approach to synchronise distributed production activities....Pages 176-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Integrated Performance Measurement Systems: A Reference Model....Pages 191-202 Evaluation of Enterprises within a Turbulent Market — Control the Dynamic Character of Turbulent Markets of the Next Millennium....Pages 203-211 Demand oriented factory planning through reference models....Pages 212-221 Practical Implementation of Virtual Lean and Agile Manufacturing Systems — Application of a Generic Framework....Pages 222-230 A simulation model for designing the automation of future’s factory....Pages 231-242 Simulation-Aided Re-Organization of the Personnel Assignment in Dynamic Production Systems....Pages 243-253 Back Matter....Pages 255-258