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Supply Chain Design at Jaguar: Bringing 'Nirvana' to Halewood

By Luk Van Wassenhove,  Neeraj Kumar
Published 02 Jul 2002
Reference 4941
Topic Operations
Industry Automotive,  Logistics and Supply Chain
Region Europe
Length 14 page(s)
Language English
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2006 ecch Best-selling Case

Winner of 2001 EFMD Case Writing Competition

Summary

The case describes a complete, radical three-dimensional concurrent engineering design of the system for the Baby Jaguar production at Halewood (UK). It shows how product, supply chain and process design are integrated to provide a lean solution. A companion case focuses on the managerial, people and organisational issues of the change process.

Teaching objectives

Providing a holistic view on system design (product, process, supply chain) Understanding how the components of the system need to fit together in order to make a concept (high quality lean manufacturing) work

Keywords
  • Supply chain design
  • Concurrent engineering
  • Outsourcing
  • Lean operations.
    AR2002
  • RD0102
About the authors
Van Wassenhove

Luk Van Wassenhove

Emeritus Professor of Technology and Operations Management

Neeraj  Kumar


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