Supply chain management: A strategic issue in engineer to order manufacturing

Hicks, C; McGovern, Tom; Earl, Christopher

doi:10.1016/s0925-5273(99)00026-2

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“…The arena for the empirical work in this paper is the construction industry, where projects often require a complex mix of activities, relationships, organisations, knowledge and skills to come together to complete a 'one-of-a-kind' assignment. It is widely perceived to have structural problems inhibiting the adoption of some supply chain best practice (Briscoe and Dainty 2005), but the same has been noted in other ETO industries (Anderson et al 2000, Hicks et al 2000 The sector has been the subject of many UK and Australian government reports which probe how the sector may improve performance and prescribe reform agendas. Murray and Langford (2003) analyse all UK construction reports published between 1944 and 2002, and conclude they all encourage a set of changing relationships between different parties to the construction process.…”

Section: Research Objectives and Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, procurement and the competitive bidding, as well as the design stage have been highlighted as being time bottlenecks for ETO supply chains (Elfving et al 2005). Hicks et al (2000), researching the capital goods sector, found that modular configurations and standard items can reduce costs and lead times. They also emphasized that some lessons can be learnt from the high volume sector, such as reduction of the supplier base and long term relationships, but that the characteristics of ETO markets significantly constrain the application of established supply chain management methods.…”

Section: Deriving Principles For Engineer-to-order Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Principles for the design and operation of engineer-to-order supply chains in the construction sector

Gosling

Towill

Naim

et al. 2014

Production Planning & Control

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By integrating the approaches of Jay Forrester (1961) and Burbidge (1961), a set of 5 design principles have emerged which provide a foundation for sound supply chain design. The 'FORRIDGE' principles have since been shown to be a powerful guide for effective design of make-to-stock supply chains. However, some have questioned the applicability of generic supply chain thinking, arguing for a tailored approach. Hence, the goal here is to investigate how these principles should be adapted for engineer-to-order industries (ETO), such as construction, capital goods and shipbuilding. The empirical elements draw on an extensive study of 12 suppliers and 2 large contractors in the construction industry. Supply chain tactics are identified for this range of companies, which are matched with real world problems, and linked with the FORRIDGE principles. This results in an additional 'Design for X' principle being proposed.The contributions made are the adaptation of established principles for the ETO sector, and the framework behind these principles.

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Section: Research Objectives and Methodological Approachmentioning

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Section: Deriving Principles For Engineer-to-order Supply Chainsmentioning

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Principles for the design and operation of engineer-to-order supply chains in the construction sector

Gosling

Towill

Naim

et al. 2014

Production Planning & Control

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“…The product produced by ETO companies varies significantly, so do their customer demands and available capability (engineers, plants, equipment, etc.). This variability makes it difficult to prescribe best practice(s) for optimal market responses [1].…”

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“…Engineer-To-Order (ETO) companies design and produce products that are generally highly customized to meet individual customer requirements but produced in low volume [1]. High levels of customization lead to increased costs, higher risks, and long lead times.…”

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A PLM-based data analytics approach for improving product development lead time in an engineer-to-order manufacturing firm

Sun¹,

Liu²,

Roy³

2017

MMEP

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A critical challenge to Engineer-To-Order (ETO) manufacturing firms is the long lead time in product development, due to the nature of highly customized products produced in low volume. The emergent DataDriven Design (D 3 ) approach is a possible solution to alleviate this tension by utilizing rich product-related data throughout the product's lifecycle and building reusable data analytics models, in order for more accurate lead time estimate in a continuously updated way. In this paper, we propose a product lifecycle management (PLM) based framework to enable Prescriptive Analytics capability in ETO companies to improve their lead time estimate. The PLM has been extended to support data analytics model lifecycle management by incorporating a formal data analytics process model, CRISP-DM. It also implements a model-based approach for optimization model development, management, and execution. The proposed PLM-based Predictive Analytics framework has been applied in a local ETO manufacturing company for testing and validation.

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“…But in MTO companies, orders' value stream consists of the tendering phase, the design phase, the purchasing phase and the production phase and activities are not restricted only in the shop floor. Dealing only in the shop floor activities will ignore the other parts of the whole flow and also important issues like departments' integration and coordination [4,5,6]. Therefore, WLC in MTO companies should not be confined only in the shop floor but should also address the other parts of the whole supply chain, from the tendering phase to the assembly stage [7,8], similar to a pure flow shop environment.…”

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Investigation of Effectiveness of Order Review and Release Models in Make to Order Supply Chain

Kundu

Staudacher

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Nowadays customisation becomes more common due to vast requirement from the customers for which industries are trying to use make-to-order (MTO) strategy. Due to high variation in the process, workload control models are extensively used for jobshop companies which usually adapt MTO strategy. Some authors tried to implement workload control models, order review and release systems, in non-repetitive manufacturing companies, where there is a dominant flow in production. Those models are better in shop floor but their performances are never been investigated in high variation situations like MTO supply chain. This paper starts with the introduction of particular issues in MTO companies and a general overview of order review and release systems widely used in the industries. Two order review and release systems, the Limited and Balanced models, particularly suitable for flow shop system are applied to MTO supply chain, where the processing times are difficult to estimate due to high variation. Simulation results show that the Balanced model performs much better than the Limited model if the processing times can be estimated preciously.

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Supply chain management: A strategic issue in engineer to order manufacturing

Cited by 170 publications

References 18 publications

Principles for the design and operation of engineer-to-order supply chains in the construction sector

Principles for the design and operation of engineer-to-order supply chains in the construction sector

A PLM-based data analytics approach for improving product development lead time in an engineer-to-order manufacturing firm

Investigation of Effectiveness of Order Review and Release Models in Make to Order Supply Chain

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