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Technology Integration to Business
Focusing on RFID, Interoperability, and Sustainability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Today’s global business environments drive companies to be more technology dependent, and to remain competitive, firms need to introduce or adopt a new technology to business. In order to achieve a successful integration with maximum return on investment, companies need a systematic approach that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Focusing on the specific challenges of research design and exploring the opportunities of conducting research in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management, this handbook is a significant contribution to future research. Chapters include extensive descriptions of methods used, highlighting...
Industrial Ecology and Industry Symbiosis for Environmental Sustainability
Definitions, Frameworks and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book opens up a critical dimension to the interdisciplinary field of Industrial Ecology (IE) and one of its four areas - Industrial Symbiosis (IS). Presenting the concept of closed-loop thinking, this timely book explains how industries and societies can achieve environmental sustainability,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends involving the interactions between academia, industry, government and society. Specifically, it aims to explore how these interactions enhance the ways in which companies deliver products and services in order to achieve sustainable...
by Matthew J. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to optimize safety stock levels for a fashion company, where consumer demand is exceptionally hard to forecast, and inventory planning is extremely difficult. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many industries...
by Gary R. Heerkens
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
ON TIME, ON BUDGET . . . MANAGE EVERY PROJECT LIKE A PRO
In today's environment of tight turnarounds and even tighter budgets, the effective project manager is often considered the most valuable member of a workplace team.
Project Management, Second Edition, provides a step-by-step introduction...
by Alex Hill, Terry Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The second edition of this innovative core textbook spans the service and manufacturing sectors, equipping readers to grasp and overcome the core challenges faced in planning, designing and implementing operations. The prestigious and well-respected author team takes a ‘tasks and challenges’ approach...
Agile Procurement
Volume I: Adding Value with Lean Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing complexity of the business environment requires a significant intervention on the management of processes...
Agile Procurement
Volume II: Designing and Implementing a Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book is the second of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing complexity of the business environment requires a significant intervention on the management of processes...
by Sanjay Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book provides a detailed overview of various parameters/factors involved in inventory analysis. It especially focuses on the assessment and modeling of basic inventory parameters, namely demand, procurement cost, cycle time, ordering cost, inventory carrying cost, inventory stock, stock out level,...
The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management
Optimize the Interaction between Supply Chain Processes, Tools, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Master supply chain management concepts, components, principles, processes, interactions, and best practices: all the knowledge you need to start designing, implementing, and managing modern supply chains! The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management brings together all the knowledge...
by Jody Hoffer Gittell
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
In her groundbreaking book The Southwest Airlines Way, Jody Hoffer Gittell revealed the management secrets of the company Fortune magazine called “the most successful airline in history.” Now, the bestselling business author explains how to apply those same principles in one of our nation’s...
Management in the Digital Age
Will China Surpass Silicon Valley?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In this Springer Brief, the author introduces how Chinese firms are successfully using their own variants of the 'Silicon Valley Approach' to management. The author begins the discussion by deliberating on the extent to which management models need to be re-invented. A fundamentally new approach is...
The Product Manager's Toolkit®
Methodologies, Processes, and Tasks in Technology Product Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book provides a consistentandholistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (roles, processes, tasks, and deliverables) that covers all aspects of product management. It helps students of product management, product management practitioners,...