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Towards achieving network capabilities in global production network of contract manufacturers
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Abstract
The growth of global trade throughout the world has created remarkable
opportunities for manufacturing companies to capture potential market share. This
along with access to low-cost production resources and knowledge has
encouraged manufacturing companies including global contract manufacturers to
establish production plants overseas. However, managing and operating a network
of geographically dispersed production plants all over the world requires
systematic network management for achieving critical network capabilities.
Network capabilities have been introduced and examined extensively, yet few
studies, if any, have studied network capabilities in a contract manufacturing
context. Therefore, the objective of this research is to develop knowledge
regarding network capabilities in a global contract manufacturing context.
In order to fulfil the objectives of this research, literature reviews were conducted
as well as three case studies with data collected in a global contract manufacturing
company headquartered in Sweden.
The results refer to cost and flexibility as two major challenges facing global
contract manufacturers. Moreover, product, production processes and
complementary processes were identified as three synergetic areas within the
production network of a global contract manufacturer. Working actively with
those synergetic areas in the production network could facilitate the achievement
of network capabilities especially in response to demands of being cost efficient
and flexible. Finally, taking into account the unique needs of global contract
manufacturers when developing the production systems, some results refer to
possibility of achieving network capabilities during the production system
development process.
Bibtex
@misc{Norouzilame4237,
author = {Farhad Norouzilame},
title = {Towards achieving network capabilities in global production network of contract manufacturers},
month = {November},
year = {2015},
url = {http://www.ipr.mdu.se/publications/4237-}
}