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To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly. Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication ...
To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executive decisions are implemented effortlessly. Competitive pressures often cause a reduction in prices, in spite of continually rising costs. A decrease in prices paired with increased costs quickly eliminates any profitability and threatens your company's ability to survive. This book shows you how you can reduce costs through the elimination of waste caused by poor communication ...
Practical, easy-to-implement advice on the most successful logistics management techniques being used today--from selecting the best carriers, setting logistics performance goals, and planning logistics strategies, to streamlining shipping and receiving and slashing logistics costs, and negotiating and managing third party logistics service providers.
Serving as a reference and guide to both practitioners and researchers involved in the planning, control, and management of advanced manufacturing systems, Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation offers information on a wide range of available methodologies and tools. The contents are organized into four parts: Global Strategic Issues; Evaluation, Selection, and Adoption of the Systems; Implementation Issues; and Control and Support. Theoretical and practical, analytical and empirical, this is a valuable resource for those interested in researching or implementing these systems into their organizations.
Completely revised and updated, ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition describes, from the perspective of a business manager, concepts and tools for enterprise planning, management, and execution. The text is written in an easy-to-read format, with many real examples from a variety of industries th
Taking a new product from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies. Lapses in these processes drive up the cost of new products, and hinder their launch into the marketplace. Effective Transition from Design to Production provides an expeditio
The Portal to Lean Production: Principles and Practices for Doing More with Less describes the steps, difficulties, and rewards of implementing lean production. The book moves beyond concepts to address practical matters. The authors provide enough information for you to begin implementing lean production within your organization. This book
Overview Do you want to become a Logistics and/or Inventory Manager? Content - Benchmarking Logistics Performance - Distribution - International Logistics - Controlling Logistics Costs - Logistics Management and Strategy - Software and Technology - Warehouse Management - Inventory Reduction Strategies: Insights from the Pros - Inventory Reduction Strategies: IOMA Readers Report – What Works - Inventory Reduction Strategies: Case Studies of Success - Technology/Computers/Software - Purchasing/Supplier Issues/Vendor Managed Inventory - Audits and Physical Inventory/Accuracy - Benchmarks - New Inventory Management Products, Services, and Ideas - Best Inventory Management Tips - E-Purchasing/E-Supply Chain etc. Duration 6 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.
Conducting "business as usual" is out of step with today's rapid-fire, global economy. Velocity Management in Logistics and Distribution: Lessons from the Military to Secure the Speed of Business alerts commerce to the new reality that it must be more flexible and responsive in managing the unpredictability of its environment, particularly when it
Lean thinking is too often narrowly focused on physical processes, causing serious shortcomings, which limit Lean‘s substantial benefits. Revised to consider the emerging global economy, Lean Performance ERP Project Management, Second Edition integrates strategy, people, process, and information technology into a project management methodolo