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by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This publication, Army Regulation AR 700-127 Logistics Integrated Product Support October 2018, prescribes the Department of the Army (DA) policy for implementing performance-based life cycle product support, including performance-based logistics, through the Army’s Integrated Product Support (IPS)...
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...
by Frank A. Tillman, Deandra T. Cassone
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
It is notoriously difficult to measure work in management, professional, and service roles, where management can’t quantify the number of units produced, and repetition of work occurs only on much longer cycle times. Nevertheless, you must make accurate measurements to correctly size your organization--and...
New Directions in Supply-Chain Management
Technology, Strategy, and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
Technology has introduced dramatic new efficiencies to supply chain design, management, and control--but only to those who can open their minds to these new methods and strategies. This book presents innovative articles from eighteen of today's top young Ph.D. scholars, each based on discussions at...
Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazards-often more than one hazard in each situation-and these hazards often lead to serious injury. But it is possible to mitigate the effects...
by Christian Alexander Ullrich
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author´s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better than...
Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams
How to ‘Build the Beginning’
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Development projects that span different disciplines and groups often face problems in establishing a shared understanding of the project’s purpose, deliverables, and direction. Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ uses research-based cases...
Scenario Planning - Revised and Updated
The Link Between Future and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-term competition and performance. The authors have drawn upon examples and case studies to develop a new model for scenario planning that is closely integrated with strategy and innovation.
by G. Dummer, Mike Tooley, BA; Advanced Technological and Higher National Certificates
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1997
This classic text has now been completely revised and updated, making it an ideal introductory course in reliability for a wide range of engineering qualifications, including City & Guilds 8030 and HNC/Ds. A new chapter focuses on the role of the microprocessor and microcomputer controller, and...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex...
Film Lighting
Talks with Hollywood's Cinematographers and Gaffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Newly revised and updated, Film Lighting is an indispensible sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based on extensive interviews with leading cinematographers and gaffers in the film industry.
Film lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new technologies and the...
by Frank Gado
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in the film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually...
Network Embeddedness
Examining the Effect on Business Performance and Internationalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book systematizes the concepts of business relationships and network embeddedness, taking a new approach to internationalization, relevant for the global economy. It reflects the growing importance of network internationalization theory and explores the impact of embeddedness in domestic and...
Wireless Mobility in Organizations
Utilizing Social, Individual, and Organizational Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book investigates the intuitive application of strategic knowledge arbitrage and serendipity (SKARSE) principles by CEOs in their use of mobile electronic devices. CEOs of small to mid-sized organizations are responsible for the income, expenses, and profitability of their respective division...