Browsing by Subject "Manufacturing Strategy"

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Facility location, capacity acquisition and technology selection models for manufacturing strategy planning
(1993) Verter, Vedat
The primary aim of this dissertation research is to contribute to the manufacturing strategy planning process. The firm is perceived as a value chain which can be represented by a production-distribution network. Structural decisions regarding the value chain of a firm are the means to implement the firm’s manufacturing strategy. Thus, development of analytical methods to aid the design of production-distribution sytems constitutes the essence of this study. The differentiating features of the manufacturing strategy planning process within the multinational companies are especially taken into account due to the significance of the globalization in product, factor, and capital markets. A review of the state-of-the-art in production-distribution system design reveals that although the evaluation of strategy alternatives received much attention, the existing analytical methods are lacking the capability to produce manufacturing strategy options. Further, it is shown that the facility location, capacity acquisition, and technology selection decisions have been dealt with separately in the literature. Whereas, the interdependencies among these structural decisions are pronounced within the international context, and hence global manufacturing strategy planning requires their simultaneous optimization. Thus, an analytical method is developed for the integration of the facility location and sizing decisions in producing a single commodity. Then, presence of product-dedicated technology alternatives in acquiring the required production capacity at each facility is incorporated. The analytical method is further extended to the multicommodity problem where product- flexible technology is also available as a technology alternative. Not only the arising models facilitate analysis of the trade-offs associated with the scale and scope economies in capacity/technology acquisition on the basis of alternative facility locations, but they also provide valuable insights regarding the presence of some dominance properties in manufacturing strategy design.
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Manufacturing strategies of Turkish firms: an empirical study on business environmental factors and competitive priorities
(2006) Ataseven, Çiğdem
There have been several studies that aim at exploring the relationships between business environment and strategy choices of firms in the literature. Cross country comparisons are provided when available to understand the differences between the manufacturing practices of the firms operating in different countries. This study analyzes the relationships between business environment, business strategy and manufacturing strategy by using the survey data gathered from Turkish manufacturing firms. The framework of these relationships used in this study is based on the relevant literature. A series of regression equations have been developed to test the effect of environment on the choice of business level competitive strategies and manufacturing strategies. In addition, the effect of competitive strategies on manufacturing strategy choices is tested. We have found significant relationships between (i) business environment and competitive strategy, (ii) business environment and manufacturing strategy, and (iii) competitive strategy and manufacturing strategy. An attempt to make a comparison of a previously collected data of the manufacturing firms in Ankara with the recently collected data is also included.