Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, Second Edition

By John Miltenburg

Book Overview

To stay competitive and meet market expectations in a global economy, both domestic and foreign companies must realign their manufacturing processes, make improvements, and increase their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563273179
• ISBN13: 9781563273179
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great high-level description of manufacturing's strategic capabilities

This book clearly indicates the pros and cons to different production systems and the situations in which a plant should choose one or the other, as well as the various roles that a plant could occupy in a larger manufacturing network. The author does a good job of showing the multiple sources of competitive advantage that manufacturing may provide to a company and highlights the need to place manufacturing in the strategic decision making process, beyond the simple-minded low cost manufacturing strategy. This book presents a clear, concise methodology for evaluating the manufacturing system, while remaining focused on the strategic needs of the company.