Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Risk Analysis in Stochastic Supply Chains
A Mean-Risk Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Risk analysis is crucial in stochastic supply chain models. Over the past few years, the pace has quickened for research attempting to explore risk analysis issues in supply chain management problems, while the majority of recent papers focus on conceptual framework or computational numerical analysis. ...
A Journey through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research
A Tribute to Professor Gianluca Spina
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
This book is intended as a tribute to Gianluca Spina, the influential and inspiring Professor of Business Management & Organization and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, who very sadly passed away early in 2015. It brings together seven of his most important...
by Xiaoying Liang, Lijun Ma, Haifeng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory in fixed intervals and, between replenishments, allocates the limited inventory to satisfy customers...
Making Work Visible
Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet—time?
Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing...
by Masaaki Imai
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The definitive, fully up-to-date guide to continuous improvement in the workplace
"An updated version of a classic book that shares a wealth of new healthcare examples and case studies from around the world. The methods in this book will help you improve quality and safety, reduce waiting times,...
by Peter A. Soyka, Robert Palevich, Steven M. Leon
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
A brand new collection of cutting-edge sustainable supply chain solutions… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
3 authoritative eBooks deliver state-of-the-art guidance for leveraging supply chain sustainability to maximize business value
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Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing
A Professional Guide to Creating A Sustainable Supply Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness,...
Retail Analytics
Integrated Forecasting and Inventory Management for Perishable Products in Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This book addresses the challenging task of demand forecasting and inventory management in retailing. It analyzes how information from point-of-sale scanner systems can be used to improve inventory decisions, and develops a data-driven approach that integrates demand forecasting and inventory management...
Digital Product Management, Technology and Practice
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Products that can be stored, produced, and disseminated in a digital form can be referred to as digital products. Digital products involve some combination of text, images, audio, video, and computer programs. They have unique advantages such as very low marginal costs for production, storage, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Business practices are constantly evolving in order to meet growing customer demands. By implementing fresh procedures through the use of new technologies, organizations are able to remain competitive and meet the expectations of their customers. Designing and Implementing Global Supply Chain Management...
Applied Insurance Analytics
A Framework for Driving More Value from Data Assets, Technologies, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Insurers: use analytics to drive far more value from your most important asset -- data! Today, many insurers radically underutilize their data, leaving them vulnerable to traditional and non-traditional competitors alike. Now, drawing on 25 years of industry experience, Patricia Saporito shows how...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book examines the globalisation of technology and innovation in the modern world. Enterprises globalise in several ways, e.g. by exporting, sourcing components and materials from other countries (B2B commerce), outsourcing, licensing their technologies and production, and foreign direct investments...
Customer-Driven Supply Chains
From Glass Pipelines to Open Innovation Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors. Organisations dealing in dynamic business environments demand supply chains that support the satisfaction of customer needs. The principles of lean thinking that...
The Road to a Modern IT Factory
Industrialization – Automation – Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
IT is currently going through one of its most critical phases of transformation. IT vendors and IT service organizations are revolutionizing their production and service processes, adopting industrial practices. It is only through the consistent transformation into factory-like structures that quality,...