部品供給体制の集約化と生産工程の変化 : スウェーデン自動車産業の事例
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In this decade the relations between assemblers and suppliers in the European automobile industry have experienced the significant changes, reflecting introduction of new method to assemble vehicles in face of intensified world competition. One of their features is the tendency of modularization resulting to reduction of the number of suppliers and use of modules with the aim of increasing total efficiency procuring the parts. In this developing environment, the module and system suppliers take the new and important roles in the industry. This article's subject is to analyze the process of the changes in the Swedish automobile industry based on the results of my field work I made with the local firms such as Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks on assemblers side, and Lear Corp., and Autoliv on the supplier side. The concern is placed on both systems and the relationship between assemblers and suppliers. The conclusions of this paper are that Volvo has introduced the module production method like other European assemblers to reduce assemble costs totally with their supplier chain integrating. Suppliers are forced to correspond this Volvo's strategy, nevertheless, some large suppliers, module and system suppliers, are expanding their production areas from their strategic point of view. Thus the modularization has impacts not only on production process but on the relationship between the assemblers and suppliers and will be an important factor for the development of Swedish automobile industry.
- 日本経営学会の論文
- 1998-09-10