In today’s environment of tight budgets and even tighter turnarounds, effective supply-chain management has become a core business requirement. Managing the Supply Chain adapts the number one supply-chain book on the college market to examine how professionals can consistently turn supply-chain strategy into a competitive advantage.
This results-based book examines the experiences of today’s most accomplished companies to demonstrate supply-chain innovation at work in the marketplace.
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In today’s environment of tight budgets and even tighter turnarounds, effective supply-chain management has become a core business requirement. Managing the Supply Chain adapts the number one supply-chain book on the college market to examine how professionals can consistently turn supply-chain strategy into a competitive advantage.
This results-based book examines the experiences of today’s most accomplished companies to demonstrate supply-chain innovation at work in the marketplace.
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Building on the precedence created by other great Lean books, Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade brings Lean back to its original simplicity by showing how Lean is alive in a first grade classroom. This book connects Lean tools to the Lean journey, shows how to identify and eliminate waste, and aids the reader in seeing Lean for what it truly is: to create a learning and problem solving culture. Written to educate the entire organization on the fundamentals of Lean thinking, this is the perfect source to engage all team members at all levels of an organization.
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The authors share both the insights gained and the technology developed from over 30 years of assisting more than 250 organizations in coping with rapid change by integrating their business operations with their organizational cultures. You’ll also learn how to identify and measure an organization’s culture and how to change business and culture simultaneously so organizational goals are achieved efficiently and effectively. Hard cover. By Jo Ellen Gabel, PhD, and Saul Pilnick, PhD.
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This book provides an introduction to key laws and regulations and important issues affecting supply chain management (SCM). Supply chain managers need to be aware that legal and regulatory issues could have profound impacts on SCM, and that sound economic principles are not always the main drivers of government policy. Soft cover. By John M. Cutler, Jr.
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To help contractors understand how to work with the military in this business model, PBL-subject-matter experts Steve Geary and Kate Vitasek have written Performance-Based Logistics: a Contractor’s Guide to Life Cycle Product Support Management. PBL has been used successfully by the military for a decade. Its premise is for the military to buy system performance. NOT transactions or activities. Simply put, PBL buys outcomes, not products or services.
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Written by Linda Girchels, Edward Marien and Chuck West. The Manager’s Guide to Distribution Channels is your bottom-line guide to ensuring that your firm successfully tailors its channel strategy and needs of the marketplace. A step-by-step handbook to formulating your channel structure, strategy, and relationship management so that it is both market-driven and results-oriented, this easy-to-implement manual is divided into three equally valuable sections.
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The all-new second edition of the definitive resource for those who are considering…or implementing…a logistics outsourcing relationship. Features new information on outsourcing supply chain management systems and contracts, gainsharing, and global outsourcing arrangements. Hard cover. By Clifford F. Lynch.
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This book contains information you can use to conduct a self-audit and gap analysis, and develop an organized approach to growing and developing current and future logistics personnel. Hard cover. Prepared by Mississippi State University.
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Authored by Allan Howie, this is a comprehensive workbook for an introductory course in material handling. There are five study units including the concept of warehousing and material logistics, movement, storage, control, and protection. Each unit has a study challenge to test comprehension.
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