The competitive capabilities studied in this paper include product innovativeness, low price, product quality, delivery, flexibility and customer services.
A low-cost plant may be a disaster if the company has sacrificed too much in the way of quality, delivery, flexibility, and so forth, in order to get its costs down.
It's scored on nine domains — eligibility criteria, recruitment, setting, organization, flexibility (delivery), flexibility (adherence), follow-up, primary outcome and primary analysis — on a scale from 1 (explanatory, or "ideal conditions") to 5 (pragmatic, or "real world").
Results indicate that product modularity influences the capabilities of delivery, flexibility and customer service, and the capabilities of delivery and flexibility positively relate to product performance.
In this study, we present, based on econometric choice modeling framework, how manufacturing managers/executives trade-off between cost, delivery, flexibility, and service features in the supplier selection process for commodity raw materials, given acceptable quality.
Process control has two purposes: first, to ensure that operations are performed according to plan, and second, to continuously monitor and evaluate the production plan to see if modifications can be devised to better meet cost, quality, delivery, flexibility, or other objectives.
Results indicate that high-performing plants employ: a strategy that emphasizes quality, delivery, and flexibility over costs; a balanced culture that stresses flexibility and control; and systematic practices that facilitate change (training, pilot projects, long-term AMT objectives).
Most successful companies have an outspoken price, quality, delivery or flexibility orientation.
Other modes of virtual desktop delivery add flexibility, while preserving the goal of centralized administration.
This paper focused specific attention on HRM practices having impact on cost, quality, delivery and flexibility.
The specific focus must be on HRM practices having impact on cost, quality, delivery and flexibility.
