shareholder value

The essential challenge for successful companies is to meet all requirements of global market. In order to adapt to these markets, the companies would have to expand by reducing its delivery times, producing an excellent quality and offering competitive prices and high flexibility. To fulfil this task, the controlling of the manufacture production should combine the requirements of markets with the factors of production in the company. This essay describes a systematic and methodical way to establish a leading shareholder value management system.

For the economic control of production ramp-up processes established instruments such as milestones exist. Also, there are several approaches to the planning and control of the factors time, costs, and quality. Those approaches, however, are not sufficient for the optimisation of production ramp-up. Therefore in this article the authors present three questions that have not been solved yet. These are the aggregation of the goals of the ramp-up by an integral controlling, the definition of the contribution to the shareholder value, and the coordination of the companies involved in corporate networks.