1st Edition

Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise Interorganizational Cost Management

By Robin Cooper, Regine Slagmulder Copyright 1999
544 Pages
by Productivity Press

544 Pages
by Routledge

Four questions determine whether a company is using interorganizational cost management. Does your firm set specific cost-reduction objectives for its suppliers? Does your firm help its customers and/or suppliers find ways to achieve their cost-education objectives? Does your firm take into account the profitability of its suppliers when negotiating component pricing with them? Is your... Read more
  1. Executive Summary
  2. How Firms Compete Using the Confrontation Strategy
  3. The Role of Cost Management in Confrontation Strategy
  4. The Research Project
  5. Lean Buyer-Supplier Relations
  6. Lean Supplier Networks
  7. An Overview of Interorganizational Cost Management
  8. Target Costing
  9. Interorganizational Implications of Target Costing
  10. Chained Target Costing and Functionality-Price-Quality
  11. Interorganizational Cost Investigations
  12. Concurrent Cost Management
  13. Kaizen Costing
  14. Interorganizational Implications of Kaizen Costing
  15. Increasing the Efficiency of the Buyer-Supplier Interface
  16. Interorganizational Cost Management in Action
  17. Lessons for Adopters

    Case Studies

  18. Citizen Watch Company: Cost Reduction for Mature Products
  19. Kamakura Ironworks Company, Ltd
  20. Komatsu, Ltd: Target Costing System
  21. Miyota Company, Ltd
  22. Olympus Optical Company, Ltd: Cost Management for Short-Life Cycle Products
  23. Omachi Olympus Company, Ltd
  24. Tokyo Motors Works, Ltd: Target Costing System
  25. Toyo Radiator Company, Ltd
  26. Yokohama Corporation, Ltd: The Yokohama Production

Biography

Robin Cooper