Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management    PLM'09
Supporting the extended enterprise
PLM-SP5, 2009
 
(from Chapter 10: Supply Networks)

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Title: Supply networks: an approach to designing an extended enterprise
  Author(s): Alison McKay, Saikat Kundu, Alan de Pennington
  Address: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
a.mckay @ leeds.ac.uk, s.kundu @ leeds.ac.uk, a.depennington @ leeds.ac.uk
  Reference: PLM-SP5 - 2009 Proceedings  pp. 505 - 514
  Abstract/
Summary
The increasing speed of change in the environments within which manufacturing companies operate is driving a demand to focus on not only excellence in products but also in the processes that are used to deliver them. In parallel, the transition from the delivery of products to product-service systems is demanding that such organizations extend the range of processes on which they focus to include through-life support processes such as maintenance, operation and end of life activities. The move from supply to lifecycle support networks is increasing the need for organizations to consider the extended enterprise, and its life-cycle, in business development activities. An emerging discipline of enterprise engineering has been established to address this need. In this paper a framework for enterprise engineering is proposed and used to analyse two industrial case studies. From this analysis requirements for enterprise design tools are proposed and evaluated through a third case study.
 
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