Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Production & Operations Management

A detailed roadmap for world-class new product development and delivery

This updated guide offers a complete blueprint for logistics excellence, covering design and production, product reliability, maintainability, quality assurance, supply chain techniques, and more. This new edition features new material on performance-based systems engineering and its impact on life cycle logistics.

This resource brings together a winning team of international operations experts to set the framework for building a world-class pharmaceutical manufacturing organization. "Pharmaceutical Operations Management" focuses on policy execution, risk management, supply chain modeling, advance process control, and Six Sigma for the pharmaceutical industry; critical techniques that will offset cost, increase efficiency, and maximize profitability....

The only step-by-step guide to transforming any company into a highly efficient, responsive, and profitable organization

Real-time enterprise (RTE) refers to the seamless fusion of IT and business operations to foster event-driven marketing, process automation, just-intime provisioning, and readily available business intelligence. By ensuring that the right information flows to the right people at the right time, RTE allows companies superior efficiency and quicker response time to both problems and opportunities. Drawing on five years of research at more than 30 leading...

Provides a step-by-step framework for designing supply chains at the strategic level
Written for those who deal with the supply...

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how U.S. nvestment in IT has important parallels in other developed countries.In analyzing the experience in the United States, the authors identify four IT-producing industries, 17 IT-using industries, and 23 non-IT industries and show that the IT-producing and IT-using industries play a...

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade journals written by and for inventory managers. A critical assumption in the inventory literature is that the demands in different periods are independent and identically distributed. However, in real life, demands may depend on environmental...

As supply chain management has matured, maintaining the precise flow of goods to manage schedules (and minimize inventories) on a just-in-time basis still presents major challenges. This has inspired an array of models and algorithms to help ensure the precise flow of components and final products into inventories to meet just-in-time requirements. This is the first survey of the theoretical work on computer systems models and algorithms utilized in just-in-time scheduling.

The essays collected in this volume present a broad survey of the state of the art in logistics systems research as viewed by a distinguished group of scholars. The book shows that logistics remains an active, vibrant subject of inquiry. There are several reasons for this continued development. Firstly, logistic systems are extremely complex with many inherent technical problems and fundamentally new approaches to the subject are frequently arising. Secondly, the practical world of logistics has changed markedly over the past few decades, posing significant new challenges to researchers....

This proposed title brings together the following key ideas in modern enterprise system development best practice.

• The need for service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• How the former depends on component-based development (CBD).
• Database-centred approaches to business rules (inc. GUIDES).
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Strategic Benchmarking Reloaded with Six Sigma updates benchmarking, the revolutionary business performance methodology, by adding statistical concepts from Six Sigma. These two methodologies combine to form a powerful platform for improving any company's overall performance. This new revision reviews the first twenty-five years of development in benchmarking and features new appendices, case studies, and topics, making this the most complete and comprehensive coverage of the subject available.

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