Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Risk Management
How to Assess, Transfer and Communicate Critical Risks
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The increasingly risky environment in which companies operate is characterized by a rising number of risk components, factors, sources, and drivers. The identification, evaluation, and management of these risks require the capability to coordinate various skills within a company and in upstream and...
The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management
Optimize the Interaction between Supply Chain Processes, Tools, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Master supply chain management concepts, components, principles, processes, interactions, and best practices: all the knowledge you need to start designing, implementing, and managing modern supply chains! The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management brings together all the knowledge...
by Andreas Weth
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1.7, UNITEC New Zealand (Supply Management Institute (SMI)), course: Diplom, 105 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Problem Definition and Scope of the Diploma Thesis...
Supply Chain Sustainability and Raw Material Management
Concepts and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Many organizations find supply chain management an essential prerequisite to building a sustainable competitive edge for their services or products. While interest in SCM is enormous, lack of theoretical frameworks and real world applications often characterizes research in the field, and effective management...
by Yasuhiro Monden
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This book focuses on various business practices to manage ailing companies during economic depression or in the aftermath of man-made and natural disasters. The methods implemented by various Japanese enterprises, such as Japan Air Line, Tokyo Electricity Company, Nissan and Toyota, to overcome their...
The New Production of Users
Changing Innovation Collectives and Involvement Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How should designers get to know the users’ interests and needs? Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate...
The Toyota Template
The Plan for Just-In-Time and Culture Change Beyond Lean Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Much has been written about Toyota over the last 30 years focusing on both its products (superior vehicles), and its operational excellence based on its Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Template details the critical concepts and methods that Taiichi Ohno implemented in developing the Toyota...
Quality
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Quality: A Critical Introduction, fourth edition, continues to provide a complete knowledge platform for all those wishing to study the development of the theory and practice of quality management.
Exploring the basics of management theory and the work of the quality gurus, who have formed...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Lean Six Sigma has evolved progressively over time from quality efforts within an enterprise that are independent, to complex systems changing the concept from a simple network to complex alliance formation among firms. The changes created by these transformations present novel challenges and issues...
3D-Druck und Lean Production
Schlanke Produktionssysteme mit additiver Fertigung
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Die Prinzipien und Methoden der Lean Production haben aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive einen hohen Reifegrad erreicht, ihr Durchdringungsgrad in der Unternehmenspraxis steigt stetig. Die additiven Fertigungsverfahren des 3D-Drucks entwickeln sich sehr dynamisch im Hinblick auf neue Verfahren, Materialien...
by N Viswanadham, S Kameshwaran
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management. However, globalization has created dispersed supply chains which are vulnerable and dependent on entities and factors that are exogenous to the supply chain. Resource...
by Desheng Dash Wu, David L. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
This book is a comprehensive guide to several aspects of risk, including information systems, disaster management, supply chain and disaster management perspectives. A major portion of this book is devoted to presenting a number of operations research models that have been (or could be) applied to...
Green Supply Chain Management
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book gives students a thorough overview of the environmental issues that impact the supply chain and details strategic methods of addressing the political, social, technological, market, and economic concerns that have caused organizations to reconsider their impact. Readers will learn how to...
Managing Complexity
Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation (MCPC 2015), Montreal, Canada, October 20th-22th, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This proceedings volume presents the latest research from the worldwide mass customization, personalization and co-creation (MCPC) community bringing together new thoughts and results from various disciplines within the field. The chapters are based on papers from The MCPC 2015 Conference where the...