For many years production management has no longer been confined to individual production facilities. Intensive cooperation with suppliers has become an integral part of production management. In recent years two further developments have gained ground. On the one hand enterprises have been specialising and concentrating on their core competencies with outsourcing as a consequence, on the other hand globalization has intensified the range of choice among suppliers. Increased dependence on suppliers called for new forms of cooperative ventures. Strategic and legal issues had to be considered and production management had to include sophisticated logistic chain management. These developments have led to the concept of `Extended Enterprise'.
Among many other topics, this book discusses:

• co-operation between companies;
• supply chain management;
• agile and virtual management;
• integration of the logistic chain; and
• production and logistical strategies.
  The book comprises the proceedings of the Working Conference on Organizing the Extended Enterprise, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), which was held in Ascona, Switzerland in September 1997. It will be of great importance to researchers, managers and consultants in production, logistics and information and other areas of organizational development.

Autorentext
Professor Dr. Paul Schönslebengeb. 1952, studierte Mathematik und Operations Research an der ETH Zürich und schloss 1980 mit einem Doktorat ab. Mehrere Jahre Bereichsleitung in Organisation und Informatik von Industrieunternehmen folgten. Parallel zum Studium und zur Praxistätigkeit entwickelte und vertrieb er ein Softwarepaket für variantenreiche Mischfertigung. Von 1983 bis 1991 war er ordentlicher Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Neuenburg. Seit 1991 ist er ordentlicher Professor an der ETH Zürich, mit Schwerpunkten in Logistik-, Operations und Supply Chain Management bis hin zum Globalen Servicemanagement und zur Service-Innovation.

Inhalt
1 The emergence of the Interprise.- 2 Variable production networks successful operating in an alliance of the best.- 3 Perspectives for executive information, decision support and information management in the extended enterprise.- 4 Partnering along the construction logistics chain.- 5 The organisation of the self-innovative extended factory in the ManuFuturing model.- 6 VEGA*: cooperating support systems for virtual enterprises.- 7 Criteria-oriented order allocation in a multisite production structure a decision support instrument for the clothing industry.- 8 Manufacturing systems engineering for the extended enterprise.- 9 Manufacturing franchising for managing the extended enterprise.- 10 Clothing industry 2000: the archetype of the extended enterprise.- 11 Planning in virtual enterprises.- 12 Building up a virtual organization.- 13 SMEs in supply chain: a supplier evaluation model and some empirical results.- 14 Build and operate logistic chains an approach to synchronise distributed production activities.- 15 Integrated performance measurement systems: a reference model.- 16 Evaluation of enterprises within a turbulent market control the dynamic character of turbulent markets of the next millennium.- 17 Demand oriented factory planning through reference models.- 18 Practical implementation of virtual lean and agile manufacturing systems application of a generic framework.- 19 A simulation model for designing the automation of future's factory.- 20 Simulation-aided re-organisation of the personnel assignment in dynamic production systems.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.