Call for papers: Coordinating Product Design

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0272-6963
• DOI: 10.1016/s0272-6963(02)00094-3

✦ Synopsis

The complex interdependencies among product design, process design, and supply chain design decisions have been recognized and brought to the attention of scholars and managers as early as Hoekstra and Romme (1992). Most recently, Fine (1998) argued that for firms to stay competitive, product design, process design, and supply chain design decisions have to be integrated to support one another. Despite the undeniable appeal and importance of this issue to both science and practice, we know very little, at present, about how these decisions in product design, process design, and supply chain design should be coordinated to maximize operational and supply chain performance.