Supply chain management in automobile industry

Supply Chain Integration:
A key organizing principle behind supply chain decisions should be learning and integration. When viewed through the learning and integration lens, we can make rational choices about what products should be made internally and what design capabilities should be retained in-house. These decisions are intimately related to product design choices and indeed product design and supply chain design should be concurrent, as a number of authors have suggested (Nevins and Whitney 1989), (Fine and Whitney 1995), (Fine 1998). The period from 1980-2000 saw a dramatic re-organization of industry in the United States and much of the world toward a tiered system of industrial production, modelled after the sy...