The Second Century: Reconnecting Customer and Value Chain through Build-to-Order

By Frits K. Pil

Index

A

Airline industry, 201, 202

Alcoa, 115, 116

Alfa Romeo, 78, 90

Allocation check, 26

Alternative specification, 14, 73 75

Amend-to-order, 28,33

American Axle and Manufacturing, 71

Argentina, 99

Arvin-Meritor, 95, 210

Assemble-to-order, 114

Assembly

decoupled, 179, 180, 183, 184

line balancing, 30, 31, 176

sequence, reliability of, 118 120, 181 184

scheduling of, 39, 119, 120

Aston Martin, 158

Auctions

of parts. See COVISINT;e-commerce

of vehicles, 17, 91

Automation, 52 54, 134, 135

B

Backloading, 154, 155

Bentley, 69

Belda, Alain, 116

Benz, Carl, 1886

BMW, 69, 70, 92, 93, 108, 120, 150, 166, 177, 180 182, 199

Body-in-white, 170 172, 179 184

Body-in-white store, 39, 183, 184

Bosch, Robert, 71

Boschetti, Giancarlo, 90

Brazil, 98, 99, 146, 147

British Aerospace, 69

British Airways, 202

Build-feasibility check, 26

Build-to-forecast, 4, 5, 14 17, 85 88

Build-to-order

order-fulfillment process, 122

ratio, 6, 11

savings of, 100, 101

C

Cadillac, 161

Capacity

cost of, 133, 134, 192 194

planning, 118 120, 133, 134, 192 194

smoothing, 204 206

utilization of, 59, 81, 95, 133, 134, 143, 144, 191, 192 194, 213

Chevrolet, 161

Chrysler. See Daimler-Chrysler

Citroen, 174

Cole, David, 67

Compensation. See Work practices

Complexity, 170 172, 212

of IT systems, 106, 107

and modularity, 185

production, 30, 31, 133

of scheduling, 29, 30

Consolidation

of capacity. See Mergers

of loads, 36, 37, 158, 159

of suppliers, 63, 70 72

Constraints

mix, 30, 31

supplier capacity, 30, 117 119

volume, 31

Control entities, 30, 32

Cost structure, 83 93, 172

COVISINT, 100, 125, 126

Cowger, Gary, 148, 212

Cross-dock, 36, 37

Customers

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