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Richard Lützner
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Die VolkswirtschaftVolume: 89Issue: 4
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PublicationIndustrie 4.0 - ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung von "Smart Networks"(Hanser, 2015-07-01)
;Lanza, Gisela ;Schuh, Günther ;Reuter, Christina ;Arndt, Tobias ;Fränken, BastianType: journal articleJournal: ZWF Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen FabrikbetriebVolume: 110Issue: 6 -
PublicationA holistic model for international manufacturing network management( 2016-09-06)This paper presents a holistic model for the management of international manufacturing networks. It focuses on the relation among the decision dimensions strategy, configuration and coordination. Based on an extensive literature review, a conceptual model is presented. The model has been validated multiple times. Its applicability is demonstrated in this paper along of an illustrative case study. We contribute to the literature on manufacturing strategy and especially the new paradigm of manufacturing networks addressing the lack of management tools in this field. Findings are limited by the narrow body of knowledge about the diverse field of manufacturing network management.Type: conference paper
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PublicationUnfocused factories as outcome of deliberate strategic management decisions( 2016-07-21)Whilst focus is widely accepted as leading to superior performance, little is known about why factories exist that are not focused. This paper aims at improving our understanding of this phenomenon based on a single case study research design. Specifically, we investigate the motivation behind strategic decision making that leads to unfocused factories. The reasoning behind such decisions is concerned not only with site-level performance but also takes firm-level outcomes into account. Our research makes propositions about unfocused factories and thus contributes to the factory focus literature and might point into the direction of a new research path.Type: conference paper
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PublicationPerformance effects of factory-within-a-factory designs( 2016-06-21)Noflatscher, SimonOrganisationally and physically separating operations activities into different factories-within-a-factory is a widely ignored research field in operations management. We empirically investigate the relationship between the degree of focus and the performance of a factory-within-a-factory. Despite suffering from small sample size, the results indicate that focus is positively associated with financial performance only. Furthermore, a separate organisational structure positively moderates the focus-performance relationship. Surprisingly, physical separation through separate buildings or otherwise has no significant moderating effect. Same applies for other means of separation.Type: conference paper
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PublicationManagement of Global Manufacturing NetworksCompanies are facing multiple challenges in a business environment that is currently characterised by increasing competitive pressure and market volatility, by uncertain economic developments and currency fluctuations, and by companies increasingly investing in foreign countries, developing and extending their global footprints. As a result, companies operate global manufacturing networks with sites scattered across the globe. Often, such networks lack a clear manufacturing and network strategy, and companies struggle with management challenges that arise from the global context of those networks. In this paper, we briefly describe the current business environment of today, present current challenges for multi-national companies with regard to the management of manufacturing networks and discuss our holistic approach for the management of global manufacturing networks. To illustrate this approach, a real-life case example will be presented afterwards. Eventually, we will sum up the core ideas of this paper and give an outlook on three topics we view as important for the further development of global network management.Type: conference paper
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PublicationKonzepte - Modelle - Systeme(Carl Hanser, 2014)
;Seghezzi, Hans-Dieter ;Pfeifer, TiloSchmitt, RobertType: book sectionVolume: 6. überarbeitete Auflage 05/2014 -
PublicationManaging Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Networks(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
;Basu, PrabirWerani, JürgenThis chapter presents both the reasons and a possible approach for tackling the challenges of today's globally dispersed manufacturing networks of pharmaceutical companies. Despite of years of discussions about end-to-end value chains the main activities in production optimization in the pharmaceutical industry are still focused on single plant level. Nevertheless we are sure that the industry will have to follow the example of other more advanced manufacturing industries and systematically address production optimization from a true network perspective in the near future. The content of this chapter will in a first part cover the history of why global companies' manufacturing is scattered around the world, why this development was not managed from a holistic perspective and what problems and challenges arose with that. It will then give several real life examples for difficulties and challenges such companies face and it will describe some targets and the current gaps between the status-quo and these targets. In the second part of this chapter we present some frameworks that can help managers to align site and network level and to systematically close the gap between status quo and the targets. Those frameworks are illustrated with one real life example each. Further we will show some implications for the framework application in the pharmaceutical context. In part three we will sum up the content and close the chapter.Type: book sectionScopus© Citations 11 -
PublicationResponsiveness and Efficiency in Multinational Companies : Shared Factories as an Option for Foreign Market Entries( 2015-05-10)Based on single case study research, we propose a shared factory concept as construct for foreign market entries where one division of a multinational corporation already operates a site in the target market of a second division. The latter benefits from low initial investments, the prior from shared fixed costs.Type: presentation
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PublicationLinkages between Network Capabilities and Manufacturing Network Coordination: An Exploratory Study( 2015-05-10)Following a case study research procedure, we investigated four business units of a multinational corporation to identify the link between network capabilities (Shi and Gregory 1998) and the network's strategic coordination (i.e. degree of centralization and standardization), to develop a descriptive model of linkages between network capabilities and infrastructural levers.Type: presentation