Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
As more companies move from regional to global scale, 3PL logistics providers have needed to dramatically improve their global capabilities. This new supply chain management case study examines how a leading North American 3PL and a Taiwan-based 3PL operating throughout Asia have partnered to serve...
by Yingxue Zhao, Xiaoge Meng, Shouyang Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015
This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand. Given the extensive utilization of contracts in supply chains, the issues concerning contract analysis and design are extremely important for supply chain management (SCM), and substantial research has...
The Offshoring Challenge
Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The continuous search for efficiency gains and the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage have steadily increased the volume of goods and services procured globally from third party vendors. In this context, named as “the next wave of globalization”, the offshoring phenomenon has...
Make to Demand with 3-D Printing
The Next Big Thing in Inventory Management?
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This case study examines how brand-new 3-D printing technologies could eliminate the need for companies to maintain vast inventories of critical spare parts, enabling these parts to be created when needed and dramatically lowering costs. It introduces the technologies involved; shows how 3-D printing...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study reviews supply chain strategy at Zophin Pharma, a major global generic drug manufacturer seeking to strengthen its presence in its domestic Indian national market. It reviews issues such as building effective local distribution channels, responding to tough price-based competition,...
by Matthew Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to create an optimal network design for a statewide pipeline company: a design that minimizes the amount of high-cost piping required, yet still connects all of the firm's terminals. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies...
Green Logistics and Transportation
A Sustainable Supply Chain Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This book identifies and furthers the state of the art in green logistics and transportation with a supply chain focus. It includes discussions on concerns and linkages across policy, corporate strategy and operations and inter-organizational relationships and practices. Separate sections are assigned...
Managing Service Productivity
Using Frontier Efficiency Methodologies and Multicriteria Decision Making for Improving Service Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This volume describes how frontier efficiency methodologies such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and other techniques such as multi-criteria decision making can help service industries to improve their performance by providing a ranking of best-practice efficient service units and by identifying...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines Remingtin Medical Devices' opportunities to modernize distribution, optimize inventory levels, reduce transportation costs, and operate more effectively in an intensely competitive industry. It illuminates unique distribution challenges associated...
BESSI
The Importance of Coordinating Product Development with Supply Chain Planning in the Fashion Goods Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study focuses on BESSI, one of Italy's most fashionable leather goods and accessories brands. It presents key performance challenges in logistics, including delayed deliveries, high inventory levels, and unavailable products, showing how these problems are exacerbated...
Fundamentals and Principles of Artifacts Science
3M&I-Body System
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This is the first book covering original information on the mathematical science of such the artifacts as 3M&I-body system, in which “3M” means human, material/machine, money, and “I” means the information/method in nature versus artifacts. This book is the product of industrial engineering...
The Value of RFID
Benefits vs. Costs
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
RFID technology presents a great potential for creating competitive advantage. By automating and simplifying data collection, it lets users more accurately track assets and monitor key indicators, which in turn gives greater visibility to the operations. However, the benefits received from this technology...
by Nicolas Eschenbach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Informationsverarbeitung & Prozessmanagement), language: English, abstract: Changing economic conditions and increasing competition forced...
Multi-Echelon Inventory Decisions at Jefferson Plumbing Supplies
To Store or Not to Store?
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines "store or don't store" multi-echelon inventory decisions faced by Jefferson Plumbing Supplies. It drills down to review inventory decision-making associated with a single product: A customer wishes to order larger quantities less frequently, but Jefferson's...