The Second Century: Reconnecting Customer and Value Chain Through Build-To-Order Moving Beyond Mass and Lean Production in the Auto Indust

by Matthias Holweg and Frits K. Pil

Book Overview

As the auto industry moves into its second century, it suffers from low margins and a sclerotic value chain that cannot evolve with customer desires. Inventories of many weeks pile up on dealer lots and at distribution centers around the world while executives applaud marginal improvements in factory efficiency.

Value streams based on Henry Ford's mass-production model from the early 1900s do not deliver the strategic flexibility that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262582627
• ISBN13: 9780262582629
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher