Manufacturing Strategies

Our first model is historical in terms of linking the strategy function in the company with an important operating function — manufacturing. 

The third level of strategy is functional. The business unit strategy should drive the functional area strategies such as Marketing Sales, R D, Finance, Distribution, and Manufacturing. In this model, the supply chain is an anomaly. It is neither a function nor a business unit. In fact, it rises above both. It is a collection of cross-functional processes that extends beyond the borders of the business unit. 

However, supply chain processes like product development, launching new products, and customer fulfillment are horizontal processes. The collaboration required makes it difficult to write a process-oriented substrategy for the business unit. A fresh challenge arises in pushing those horizontal processes outside the company, like one must do for the supply chain. 

Hayes and Wheelwright define manufacturing strategy as having the eight decision categories listed below  

Capacity Facilities Technology Vertical integration Workforce Quality Production, planning and materials control Organization 

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Do not oppose outsourcing and contract manufacturing strategies. Point out to corporate management, however, that the ultimate responsibility for API manufacture rests with the internal operational functions of your company and not with those of the vendor or supplier. 

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Support for the Therapeutic Teams was wide-ranging, covering such items as the identification and preparation of API impurities for analytical and toxicity work, analyses of supply quantities and timelines, and, later, projections on possible API manufacturing strategies and the cost of goods, and so on. Support for Manufacturing is illustrated in Chapter 9. 

Undertaking manufacture of early launch bulk actives for Marketing was always controversial. It occurred in one case (see presentation on dilevalol hydrochloride) and, as it happened, the early launch manufacturing strategy saved enormously, by... 

Integrating Contract Manufacturing into the Manufacturing Strategy... 

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