Overview
- Editors:
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G. Perrone
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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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M. Bruccoleri
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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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P. Renna
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University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
- Chronicles the achievements of a specific research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) during the period 2001-2003
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Table of contents (8 papers)
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- Giovanni Perrone, Giovanni Montana
Pages 23-43
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- Giovanni Celano, Antonio Costa, Sergio Fichera
Pages 45-66
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- Lanfranco Imberti, Tullio Tolio
Pages 67-95
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- Giovanna Lo Nigro, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Umberto La Commare
Pages 97-117
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- Marco Cantamessa, Matteo Gualano
Pages 119-142
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- Giovanni Perrone, Paolo Renna
Pages 143-169
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- Antonio Grieco, Emanuela Guerriero
Pages 171-198
About this book
The “extended enterprise” is a new emerging paradigm in the manufacturing arena. Indeed, global competition is pushing manufacturing enterprises in several industries either to split geographically the production capacity or to work together in supply chain organizations involving several independent entities. This dynamic is involving both big companies, whose organisation is always more and more decentralised and geographically distributed, and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that are embracing new organisation forms such as the Virtual Enterprise (VE) one. The “extended enterprise” allows gaining agility, reactive ness, even p- activeness, and, of course, efficiency in the highly dynamic markets of the mass customisation and knowledge based economy era. However, the “extended enterprise” paradigm scales management complexity both at the strategic and operational level up. This requires new tools for managing the complexity of the extended enterprise. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables the possibility to create new and innovative “tools for managing the extended enterprise”. This book addresses the above introduced issue of the tools for the extended enterprise. More specifically, it presents the results of a research developed under a two years program titled “ “Distributed process and production planning in manufacturing enterprise networks” and funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) under the program PRIN2001.
