Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook: Inventory and Production Control

ISBN-13: 9781138066519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 734 str.

Erick C. Jones

Opis

The book will describe those who are using more historic technologies and companies that are using current collaboration tools for connecting their SC to other global SCs. This book will be a handbook for practitioners, a teaching resource for academics, and a guide for military contractors.

Spis treści

Introduction. Global Supply Chain Engineering Definitions. History of Global Supply Chain Manufacturing and Management. How Factory Dynamics and Little’s Law Moved Manufacturing to Supply Chains. How Total Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma Drove the Need for Supply Chain Integration. How Integration Strategies Moved Expanded Supply Chain to Enterprise. Working with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. Outsourcing and the Growth Service, Logistics, and Operations Research. Warehousing, Distribution, and Logistics Engineering Expands Because of Outsourcing. Transportation and Network Engineering Expands Because of Outsourcing. The Internet of Things and the Tracking of Supply Chain Assets. The Innovation Path and Distributed Manufacturing (Citizen Science, Maker Movement, and Advanced Manufacturing). Current Research Trends.