... changes back to CSM. This is similar to Deming's P‐D‐C‐A cycle (Juran and Gryna, 1993) of continuous improvement (see Figure 2). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Supply chain management Manufacturing systems Lean production Product costs Quality The three big motor...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Supply chain management Manufacturing systems Structural design Australia While the benefits of collaboration make it an attractive concept for firms to pursue, it is also recognized that collaboration is not a completely unproblematic concept (Barratt, 2004). Much...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Supply chain management Total quality management Manufacturing systems United States of America Supply chain management (SCM) and total quality management (TQM) are two of the important tools that manufacturing companies use to achieve competitive...

..., 2003). In the literature the case of refrigerators has been raised, as a classic consumer durable suited to remanufacturing. Even in cases such as this, the task is seen as adapting the reverse logistics process to the demands of the existing manufacturing system which itself is seen as sacrosanct...

... Customers Manufacturing systems Supply chain management Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) no longer compete as sole autonomous entities but as supply chains owing to increased dependency on outsourcing. As the industrial giants trim down, much of the manufacturing and assembly is now...

... with the capability to meet the challenges. For the purpose of highlighting their relevance to the company, the challenges it faces have been embodied in the acronym SEAGATE (see Table I). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Supply chain management Distribution management Manufacturing systems...