Report

July 2000

• Global manufacturing brings big benefits to firms . . .
• . . . But is plagued by inflexibility and lack of coordination.

• Firms need manufacturing networks, not supply chains.
• Spot markets for manufacturing capacity arise.

• Engineer plants for late-phase differentiation.

• Venture money flows into Dot Builds.
• EU manufacturing networks thrive in laissez-faire markets.
• Chinese manufacturers leapfrog legacy systems.

• Figure 1.  Manufacturing Is Increasingly Global -- But Inflexible
• Figure 2.  Global Manufacturing Is Held Together By Strings And Bailing Wire
• Figure 3.  Global Manufacturers Will Fall Into One Of Four Categories
• Figure 4.  Technology Infrastructure Investments For Manufacturing Networks
• Figure 5.  The Net Deconstructs Linear Manufacturing Value Chains

 

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