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

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

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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 manufacturing capabilities. With large numbers of employees working in a network of domestic and foreign facilities, production processes are as varied as the products being produced. Manufacturing managers need a manufacturing plan or strategy that will bring structure to this complex environment. <p>In <b>Manufacturing Strategy: How to Formulate and Implement a Winning Plan, 2nd Edition</b>, John Miltenburg offers a sensible and systematic method to: (1) evaluate domestic and foreign factories and international manufacturing and (2) plan the appropriate manufacturing strategy to be first in the market. <p>Incorporating comments and suggestions from managers who used the first edition of <b>Manufacturing Strategy</b>, John Miltenburg expands and improves on his focus in the areas of: <i>International Manufacturing</i> — where the focus is on a company's international network of factories; <i>Competitive Strategy</i> — where managers must understand the role manufacturing strategy plays in their company's business strategy; and <i>Manufacturing Programs</i> — showing how programs such as quality management, six sigma, agile manufacturing, and supply chain management fit within the manufacturing strategy. <p><b>Manufacturing Strategy</b> gives managers a common language for dealing with manufacturing problems at both strategic and operational levels. It improves communication between manufacturing managers and those outside manufacturing (who will now have a better understanding of what manufacturing can and cannot do).