International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 11 Issue 3

Strategy and the Shopfloor: A One‐way Initiative?

T.A.J. Nicholson

The study of manufacturing strategy has now become established. Butwhat about the shopfloor where it is supposed to be implemented? Howwell is this understood? This article…

Co‐makership in the Delivery of Packaging Materials

Paul Konijnendijk, Jacob Wijngaard

In many situations suppliers and customers are looking for ways toimprove the co‐ordination of goods flow in both quantitative andqualitative ways. This is often called…

Developing a Manufacturing Strategy within a Capital‐Investment Process – A Case Study

Ingvar Persson

This article is a description and an analysis of a capitalinvestment project from the perspective of manufacturing strategy. Thecase will illustrate the development of a…

Manufacturing Strategy Development at Bibby Sterilin Ltd

John Bodnar, Alan Harrison

This article focuses on the application of manufacturing conceptsin a medium‐sized manufacturer of plastic products for medical use. Thecompany produces a range of product lines…

Manufacturing Strategy in the Value System

Per Lindberg, Lars Trygg

This article examines the current relationship between Swedishmanufacturers and their suppliers. Emphasis is put on the demands placedon the suppliers by the manufacturers, on the…

The Different Operations Strategy Planning Process for Service Operations

Curtis P. McLaughlin, Ronald T. Pannesi, Narindar Kathuria

The manager who moves from manufacturing to services or theprofessor who wishes to research and teach service operations mustrecognise the key differences for developing an…

Design of Performance Measures for Time‐based Companies

Giovanni Azzone, Cristina Masella, Umberto Bertelè

An increasing number of firms are planning to become“time‐based companies”, that is to consider time as the mainissue of their manufacturing strategy. However, such change in…

The Process of Manufacturing Strategy: Some Empirical Observations and Conclusions

John C. Anderson, Roger G. Schroeder, Gary Cleveland

Manufacturing strategy has become a subject of increasingimportance to practice and research. It involves two elements: contentand process. The content of manufacturing strategy…

A Framework for Formulating After‐sales Support Strategy

Colin Armistead, Graham Clark

For some time there have been models for considering manufacturingstrategy which focus on the product but which essentially ignoredimensions of aftersales support. This article…

A Production‐allocation Approach for International Manufacturing Strategy

G.C.J.M. Vos

An entrepreneur needs a tool on an enterprise level to determineopportunities and threats in a global perspective. Theproduction‐allocation approach described in this article…

A Panel Study of Manufacturing Strategies in Sweden

Sven Åke Hörte, Sofia Börjesson, Claes Tunälv

Within the framework of the Swedish Manufacturing Strategy Projecta panel study of 66 manufacturing business units has been made. These 66companies participated in a…