Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study offers an insider view of Stanford Blood Center’s crucial initiative for improving processes associated with the supply of platelets, crucial blood products with a short five-day shelf-life and volatile demand patterns. Walking through the entire platelet supply chain--collection,...
Supplier Relationship Management
Unlocking the Hidden Value in Your Supply Base
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Supplier Relationship Management enables organizations to secure vast value from their supply base by determining the suppliers that are important or hold potential and, based upon what makes them important or even strategic, putting in place interventions unique to each supplier to unlock real tangible...
Contemporary Logistics in China
Reformation and Perpetuation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This book is the seventh volume in a series entitled “Contemporary Logistics in China,” authored by researchers from the Logistics Center at Nankai University. In the spirit of the six preceding annual volumes, this book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic exposition on the logistics...
Reinventing Innovation
Designing the Dual Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products. It argues that the two pursuits cannot be achieved through...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
This field manual provides ready reference and guidance for units and soldiers that handle munitions items. It is not a comprehensive manual, but it does provide useful data on important points of munitions service support. Also, it is a training tool for munitions units and soldiers.
Focus...
Global Supply Chain Ecosystems
Strategies for Competitive Advantage in a Complex, Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Twenty-first-century supply chains have evolved into world-wide inter-connected supply-and-demand networks comprising vastly more complex operations, with profound inter-dependencies and exposure to greater volatility in our uncertain world.
The linear concept of a chain is therefore no longer...
Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains
A Social Network Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect...
Supply Chain Collaboration
Roles of Interorganizational Systems, Trust, and Collaborative Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
To survive and thrive in the competition, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. Internet based technologies, particularly interorganizational systems, further extend the firms’ opportunities to strengthen...
Supply Chain Risk Management
Advanced Tools, Models, and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives. Supply chains today are vulnerable to disruptions with a significant impact on firms’ business and performance. The aim of supply chain risk management is to identify the potential sources of risks...
by Hari Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Medical care is an industry and private providers and hospitals are the major service providers. They operate on business principles. Hospitals are getting highly specialized and complex. The diagnostics and therapeutics are technology intensive. Private establishments have to compete with one another...
by Nick T. Thomopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Assembly Line Planning and Control describes the basic fundamentals of assembly lines for single model lines, mixed model make-to-stock lines, mixed model make-to-order lines and for one-station assembly. The book shows how to select the quantity of units to schedule for a shift duration, compute...
Boundary Management
Developing Business Architectures for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
"Business architecture" is a concept for optimizing corporate boundaries aimed at realizing targeted business models and corporate system design involving stakeholders. To optimize the corporate boundaries, companies must partially and/or wholly optimize the individual management elements...
The Project
Developing a Career in Global Project Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
It’s September 2009, one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and Colin has just lost his job. Luckily, he is soon hired as a project manager in a big international investment bank, but quickly finds himself dealing with office politics, dodgy vendors, hostile project sponsors and the difficult...
Process Planning
The Design/Manufacture Interface
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Process Planning covers the selection of processes, equipment, tooling and the sequencing of operations required to transform a chosen raw material into a finished product. Initial chapters review materials and processes for manufacturing and are followed by chapters detailing the core activities...