Subject category:
Production and Operations Management
Published by:
International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Version: 17.02.2003
Length: 10 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
Leupin SA is a producer of industrial finishing systems (liquid coating, powder coating, and electrocoating) based in Normandy, France. Each of the company''s three major divisions has supply chain issues; the case is a description of each of them. The first deals with some classic bottleneck issues and whether a full-blown outsourcing of completely assembled modules is the best way around the problem, or whether some less drastic solution is called for. The second involves a very finicky customer and whether the division should invest more in a product with an uncertain future. The third considers its division''s parts business and how supplier companies ought to be treated. Other issues, including the company''s in-house fabrication business, are also posed.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
7,500 employees
Other setting(s):
Early 2003
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Abstract
Leupin SA is a producer of industrial finishing systems (liquid coating, powder coating, and electrocoating) based in Normandy, France. Each of the company''s three major divisions has supply chain issues; the case is a description of each of them. The first deals with some classic bottleneck issues and whether a full-blown outsourcing of completely assembled modules is the best way around the problem, or whether some less drastic solution is called for. The second involves a very finicky customer and whether the division should invest more in a product with an uncertain future. The third considers its division''s parts business and how supplier companies ought to be treated. Other issues, including the company''s in-house fabrication business, are also posed.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
7,500 employees
Other setting(s):
Early 2003