This book provides understanding how to make and buy products from China. The author takes readers inside Chinese organizations and shows how factories are built, labor is managed, goods are sourced, quality is controlled, and logistics are handled. Through this immersion experience, readers are...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Lean Work Design -- Chapter 2: Customers Drive the Lean Company -- Chapter 3: Process Flow -- Chapter 4: Little's Law -- Chapter 5: The Effects of Variance in the System -- Chapter 6: Buffer Management -- Chapter 7: People -- Chapter...

About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Background -- 2. Post-World War II developments -- 3. The supply-chain management concept -- 4. The impact of globalization -- 5. Globalization issues -- 6. Supply-chain security -- 7. Day-to-day issues -- 8. Doing it right: a mini case study...

Supply chain planning is concerned with making decisions about how many goods to procure, make, and deliver before knowing exactly what the demand for products is going to be. These planning decisions are difficult because they must be made with uncertain and dynamic information about future...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Testimonials -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Value SPC Can Add to Quality, Operations, Supply Chain Management, and Continuous Improvement Programs -- Chapter 2: Variation and What It Means to...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: General Sources of Complexity Within Emergency Supply Chains -- Chapter 3: Part 1: Understanding Complexity Within the Military Domain of Emergency Supply Chains -- Chapter 3: Part 2: The Nature of an Expedition --...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction-About This Book -- Chapter 2: Technology Trends in Logistics and Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 3: The Science of Inventory Optimization: Profit Optimally Managing Change and Variability in the Supply Chain -- Chapter 4: The...

This book is for everyone who wants to make better forecasts. This book is not about mathematics and statistics. It is about following a well-established forecasting process to create and implement good forecasts. This is true whether you are forecasting global markets, product demand,...

Lean Work Design comes directly from our view that lean operations results from the work design. This book uses three existing work design theories to study lean operations and to identify the principles of lean operations. First, systems theory is used to conceptualize how lean operations...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Background -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Commodity Price Risk Management -- Chapter 2: Assessing Price Risk Exposure and Risk Tolerance -- Section II: Forecasting Commodity Prices -- Chapter 3: Forecasting Short-Term Commodity Prices...