Resource Management
Crisis in Higher Education: A Customer-Focused, Resource Management Resolution
1st Edition
By Mark A. Vonderembse
October 19, 2017
While many students, parents, educators, and organizations who hire their graduates hold US universities in high regard, the cost of higher education has risen much faster than the rate of inflation. High costs, in turn, have severely limited access to higher education for large portions of the US ...
Supply Chain Construction: The Basics for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash
1st Edition
By William T. Walker
August 26, 2015
All too often, entrepreneurs start small businesses unaware of their need for a supply chain network. And, large companies are acquired and their product lines merged with little regard for supply chain network integration and rationalization. Written for practitioners by a practitioner with 40 ...
Directing the ERP Implementation: A Best Practice Guide to Avoiding Program Failure Traps While Tuning System Performance
1st Edition
By Michael W. Pelphrey
April 02, 2015
Although many books outline approaches for successful ERP implementations, the data shows that most ERP efforts yield minimal return on investment (ROI), with most projects failing. Directing the ERP Implementation: A Best Practice Guide to Avoiding Program Failure Traps While Tuning System ...
Building Network Capabilities in Turbulent Competitive Environments: Business Success Stories from the BRICs
1st Edition
By Paul Hong, YoungWon Park
December 19, 2014
Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are among the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. The enormous size of the customer base in these emerging markets is the strategic concern of global business firms. Successful market performance in these markets requires sound understanding ...
Principles of Supply Chain Management
2nd Edition
By Richard E. Crandall, William R. Crandall, Charlie C. Chen
December 11, 2014
The second edition of this popular textbook presents a balanced overview of the principles of supply chain management. Going beyond the usual supply chain text, Principles of Supply Chain Management not only details the individual components of the supply chain, but also illustrates how the pieces ...
Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline
1st Edition
By Gregory L. Schlegel, Robert J. Trent
October 14, 2014
You don’t have to outrun the bear … you just have to outrun the other guy. Often in business we only have to run a bit faster than our competitors to be successful. The same is true in risk management. While we would always like to anticipate and prevent risk from happening, when risk events do ...
Supply Chain Optimization through Segmentation and Analytics
1st Edition
By Gerhard Plenert
April 01, 2014
We live in a world where we try to solve similar problems in structurally the same way. But they simply are not optimally solved all the same. Supply Chain Optimization through Segmentation and Analytics addresses the issue of optimizing the planning and scheduling process and asks the question; "...
Vanishing Boundaries: How Integrating Manufacturing and Services Creates Customer Value, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Richard E. Crandall, William R. Crandall
October 23, 2013
Businesses need to become more consumer-centric, efficient, and quality conscious. Yet global competition and supply chain complexity are increasing so rapidly that managers must reach across the manufacturing and service boundary to gather more universally applicable ideas. Vanishing Boundaries: ...
Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain
1st Edition
By Preston W. Blevins
November 16, 2012
The global sourcing of ingredients has created complex supply chains, significant management challenges, and additional regulatory compliance requirements. This places tremendous pressure on food manufacturers, many of whom lack the knowledge, concepts, techniques, and procedures to comply with ...
Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma: A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations
1st Edition
By Gerhard Plenert, Tom Cluley
April 11, 2012
Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves. Many other organizations employ Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and reduce process variation only to find they are not moving the big bars that measure success for the organization. Driving Strategy to ...
Building Network Capabilities in Turbulent Competitive Environments: Practices of Global Firms from Korea and Japan
1st Edition
By Young Won Park, Paul Hong
December 19, 2011
Since the start of the recent financial crisis, as most global firms struggle to remain competitive, an increasing number of Korean and Japanese firms have experienced an amazing rate of growth and expansion. Although academic researchers and business leaders in the United States, China, Brazil, ...
Lean Management Principles for Information Technology
1st Edition
By Gerhard Plenert
July 28, 2011
Whether it's because of a lack of understanding, poor planning, or a myriad of other things, 50 to 60 percent of the IT effort in most companies can be considered waste. Explaining how to introduce Lean principles to your IT functions to reduce and even eliminate this waste, Lean ...