Production category: 2784 books
Purchase Order Management Best Practices
Process, Technology, and Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
In todays competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques...
Publish or Perish
Scheduling Challenges in the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to manage the complex book publishing process from manuscript through printing and shipping, keeping projects on time to meet the industry's crucial spring and fall seasons. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many...
FT Guide to Lean
How to streamline your organisation, engage employees and create a competitive edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation’s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.
The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how...
Teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior through Humor
Laughter as the Best Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
A unique, non-traditional, Organizational Behavioral-oriented book that is geared toward flexible leadership, and that offers a series of funny, yet thought-provoking, motivating, growth-oriented jokes and humor anecdotes that will help readers tap into their internal locus of control.
The Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service
Principles and Strategies for Planning, Organizing, and Managing Fulfillment and Service Operations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain order fulfillment and customer service processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute knowledge and...
Retail Category Management
Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing product variety and striving towards high service levels, the complexity of managing retail business...
Retail Supply Chain Management
Quantitative Models and Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
In today's retail environment, characterized by product proliferation, price competition, expectations of service quality, and advances in technology, many organizations are struggling to maintain profitability. Rigorous analytical methods have emerged as the most promising solution to many of these...
Industrial Research Performance Management
Key Performance Indicators in the ICT Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Managers are increasingly concerned with the typical methods available for organizational performance measurement and control. Research into performance measurement, within the field of innovation management, has been variously approached through frameworks for performance measurement in general (for...
by Dong-Ping Song
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems examines its subject the context of the presence of a variety of uncertainties. Numerous examples with intuitive illustrations and tables are provided, to demonstrate the structural characteristics of the optimal control policies...
Business Operations Models
Becoming a Disruptive Competitor
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Most successful companies have operations management at their heart. It enables strategy and should be part of boardroom discussions. However, Cranfield research has shown that business strategy barely recognises the world of operations management.
Recognising that operations management needs...
Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms
New Approaches for Collaborative Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice – however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational supply chains, an additional, yet unresolved problem arises: due to confidentiality reasons, decentralized parties...
Periodic Review Inventory Systems
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Inventory Systems within Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
The focus of the work is twofold. First, it provides an introduction into fundamental structural and behavioral aspects of periodic review inventory systems. Second, it includes a comprehensive study on analytical and optimization aspects of a specific class of those systems. For the latter purpose,...
by Marc J Schniederjans, Qing Cao, Jason H Triche
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This updated edition of the book blends in new e-commerce technologies. Mobile commerce (M-commerce) and use of cloud computing are offering a new set of challenges and opportunities for those individuals who know what they are and how they are related to e-commerce. Their use opens up new markets,...
Strategic Supply Chain Management
The Development of a Diagnostic Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book analyses the development of strategic supply chain modelling and its role in optimising decision-making in business, in relation to advances in technology and increased demand due to globalisation. The authors examine existing supply chain models in order to create a conceptual framework...