Entreprise étendue

cité dans [Larsen, L. et al. 1998]

" Extended Enterprise is the concept of manufacturing business operations that looks at all the participants in the manufacture of a product. The Product Owner designs, markets, and bears ultimate responsibility for the product. He works together with his Supplying Partners who supply the sub-assembly, components and particular processes in the manufacturing of the products. The significance of the Extended Enterprise as distinct from the conventional subcontracting relationship is in the extent of information flows that facilitate the tightening of manufacturing design and production. The opportunities of using the specialist skills and