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....

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

Based on over 200 interviews, this new book provides rich insights and practices on the toughest challenges facing offshore client/supplier relationships. While many client organizations found benefits to be gained from the offshoring of IT work, others struggled to realize any cost savings or other improvements. How can these mixed experiences be reconciled? The research reveals that offshore outsourcing can deliver on its promises, but only if both clients and suppliers diligently manage the details. In this book, the authors provide specific practices that managers can use, and detailed...

Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions defines the parameters of the emerging business strategy, mass customization. The book will cover the main categories of the area with a systematic examination of the following themes: manufacturing systems and mass customization, supply chain management and mass customization, and information systems and mass customization.

In addition to being tightly organized by themes and a carefully selected group of contributors, the Editors will write introductory material to the sections along with introductory and...

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.