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Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management
From Sourcing to Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management. It contains three parts, organized under the headings of “Reviews and Discussions,” “Analytical Research,”...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Research Methods for Operations Management, second edition is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers but also a reference book for any researcher in OM. Many students begin their career in research limited by the one or few approaches taken by their...
Evaluation of Supply Chain Performance
A Manufacturing Industry Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book provides some regional aspects considered by manufacturing firms in their decisions to gain competitiveness and have effects on the performance of their supply chains (SC). Some of the main aspects considered are: government's policies, fixed costs, the availability and quality of infrastructure...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
This handbook surveys important stochastic problems and models in manufacturing system operations and their stochastic analysis. Using analytical models to design and control manufacturing systems and their operations entail critical stochastic performance analysis as well as integrated optimization...
Competing on Supply Chain Quality
A Network Economics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book lays the foundations for quality modeling and analysis in the context of supply chains through a synthesis of the economics, operations management, as well as operations research/management science literature on quality. The reality of today's supply chain networks, given their global reach...
by Irfan M. Ovacik, Reha Uzsoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The factory scheduling problem, that of allocating machines to competing jobs in manufacturing facilities to optimize or at least improve system performance, is encountered in many different manufacturing environments. Given the competitive pressures faced by many companies in today's rapidly changing...
Dynamics in Logistics
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference LDIC, 2016 Bremen, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
These proceedings contain research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in Bremen, Germany, February 2016. The conference is concerned with dynamic aspects of logistic processes and networks. The spectrum of topics reaches from modeling, planning and...
Information and Communication Technology in Sudan
An Economic Analysis of Impact and Use in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book discusses the use, economic importance and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public and private Sudanese universities. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the economic impact of ICT from the demand perspective as well as from the public-private...
Technical Management for the Performing Arts
Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Technical Management for the Performing Arts: Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money is a comprehensive guide to the tools and strategies of a successful technical manager. This book demonstrates how you can coordinate personnel, raw materials, and venues, all while keeping a production on a tight schedule...
by Matthias Hintze
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: ECTS grade: A, Linköping University (Institute of Technology), course: Analysing and Improving Manufacturing Operations, language: English, abstract: The following report is intended to give...
Inventory Management
Principles, Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The goal of Inventory Management will be to explain the dynamics of inventory management's principles, concepts, and techniques as they relate to the entire supply chain (customer demand, distribution, and product transformation processes). The interrelationships of all functions will be defined....
by Pingyu Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering....
by Javier Santos, Richard A. Wysk, José Manuel Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Nadie duda de que el triunfo de los gestores e ingenieros trabajando en el área de producción se basa, en parte, en el entendimiento y aplicación de las técnicas lean manufacturing. El pensamiento lean (lean thinking) se basa en la búsqueda y eliminación sistemática del despilfarro en cualquier...
Visible Knowledge for Flawless Design
The Secret Behind Lean Product Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Visible knowledge is a tool nearly lost in the West, but it has been used to great effect by Toyota in its 50-year march from noncompetitiveness to its current status as the second largest automobile company in the world. It is key for the 50% growth in market share Toyota plans for this decade despite...