Implementing Collaboration Process Networks
The International Journal of Logistics Management
ISSN: 0957-4093
Article publication date: 1 July 2002
Abstract
The promise of process integration between organizations too often is unfulfilled and new approaches are needed. Distributed control is a new and exciting opportunity to build more effective process networks for a wide range of applications in logistics and product development. A solution based on distributed control around the consumers of services in process networks is proposed. In logistics, it is the physical delivery that becomes the focus for distributed control when you approach the service environment from the consumer perspective. In collaborative design and manufacturing, it is the product model that becomes the focus of control. A consumer perspective provides key guidelines that help manufacturers and service providers identify the design of process networks that most efficiently add value in different industries and for different applications.
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Citation
Holmström, J., Främling, K., Tuomi, J., Kärkkäinen, M. and Ala‐Risku, T. (2002), "Implementing Collaboration Process Networks", The International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/09574090210806414
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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