Information flow in automotive supply chains - Identifying and learning to overcome barriers to change

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 491-502

  Childerhouse, Paul ^a   Hermiz, Ramzi ^b   Mason Jones, Rachel ^b   Popp, Andrew ^c   Towill, Denis R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Federal Mogul Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Business process re engineering; Change management; Information management; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MANUFACTURE; MARKETING; PIPELINES;

BUSINESS PROCESSES RE-ENGINEERING; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM);

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 3242718497     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570310489197     Document Type: Article

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