TY - JOUR AB - Presents a table comparing business process for the future manufacturing enterprises with a set of mapping techniques and methodologies. The first section is a brief introduction about the current situation for many European manufacturing companies. After that, describes the process‐based organization and a set of generic processes. Presents two key processes which were identified for each of five enterprises of the future suggested by Puttick. Following this, gives a description of the most common techniques and methodologies currently used, together with an evaluation of them. The table obtained by matching the processes with the techniques can be used as a guide when choosing the most suitable mapping technique or methodology for a enterprise’s key processes. VL - 17 IS - 5 SN - 0144-3577 DO - 10.1108/01443579710167221 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579710167221 AU - Vinodrai Pandya K. AU - Karlsson Andreas AU - Sega Stefano AU - Carrie A. PY - 1997 Y1 - 1997/01/01 TI - Towards the manufacturing enterprises of the future T2 - International Journal of Operations & Production Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 502 EP - 521 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -