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

This well-established handbook presents integral logistics management as the management of the flow of goods, data and control along the comprehensive life cycle of products and services in both classical and service industries. It offers a well-founded overview for managers, practitioners and advanced users. For the 6th edition, the content has been tightened and the following topics have been extended:

• the design of integrated offers of intangibles and tangibles goods in industrial product-service systems
• the integrated design of product, distribution,...

With increased globalization, off-shoring, and outsourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses. Global supply chain management shares some of the main concerns of traditional supply chain management, such as lowering the costs of procurement and decreasing the risks related to purchasing activities. It also has the additional challenge of involving a company's worldwide interests and suppliers, covering numerous organizations across several countries, borders, time zones, cultures, and languages.

Global Supply Chain Ecosystems...

Starker Kostendruck, schnelle Produktwechsel sowie ein kurzer Planungshorizont kennzeichnen die industrielle Montage. Die Rationalisierung der Ablaufe ist ebenso wichtig wie eine hochflexible Technik und qualifiziertes Personal. Die zweite Auflage des Handbuchs vermittelt die Grundlagen der industriellen Montage von Unternehmen der Elektro- und Feinwerktechnik, des Maschinenbaus und der Automobilzulieferindustrie. Neben genauer Beschreibung der Planung, der Betriebsmittel und des Betriebs wird die praktische Umsetzung durch Beispiele erlautert.

Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained competitive even without relocating their operations overseas.

Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industries and firms determined their choice of location and competitiveness. This volume identifies the major drivers of this...