Resource Management
ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Carol A Ptak, Eli Schragenheim
October 20, 2003
Completely revised and updated, ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Second Edition describes, from the perspective of a business manager, concepts and tools for enterprise planning, management, and execution. The text is written in an easy-to-read format, with...
Introduction to e-Supply Chain Management: Engaging Technology to Build Market-Winning Business Partnerships
1st Edition
By David Frederick Ross
December 17, 2002
In the quest to remove supply channel costs, streamline channel communications, and link customers to the value-added resources found along the supply chain continuum, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has emerged as a tactical operations tool. The first book to completely define the architecture of ...
Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices
1st Edition
By Kevin P. McCormack, William C. Johnson
November 25, 2002
With future competitive landscape shifting from competition between companies themselves to trading partner networks, understanding and mastering process design and change is becoming more critical than ever. In order to succeed, companies are starting to weave their key business processes into ...
Collaborative Manufacturing: Using Real-Time Information to Support the Supply Chain
1st Edition
By Michael McClellan
September 13, 2002
Collaborative manufacturing is an interactive process with great potential, but without the direct input of the plant floor systems information, a significant piece of the management process is not available for consideration. Collaborative Manufacturing provides guidance and examples of how and ...
The Supply Chain Manager's Problem-Solver: Maximizing the Value of Collaboration and Technology
1st Edition
By Charles C. Poirier
July 30, 2002
The true promise and benefits of Supply Chain Management elude many organizations. Cultural limitations, a narrow view of the opportunities offered by and the need to access external resources juxtaposed with a lack of understanding of how technology can enhance business processes create resistance...
Making Supply Chain Management Work: Design, Implementation, Partnerships, Technology, and Profits
1st Edition
Edited
By James B. Ayers
December 13, 2001
Any supply chain improvement project, even if well conceived, has a good chance of failing, unless the accompanying information technology enables the design. Being prepared, understanding the risks and how to reduce them, will give you the edge you need. Combining a technology focus with practical...
Integrated Learning for ERP Success: A Learning Requirements Planning Approach
1st Edition
By Karl M. Kapp, William F. Latham, Hester Ford-Latham
March 23, 2001
The results are in. The evidence has been analyzed. Research shows that the lack of enterprise-wide training is the biggest reason for ERP implementation failures. It is the single most important precursor to achieving success. Integrated Learning for ERP Success is the first resource to offer a ...
Basics of Supply Chain Management
1st Edition
By Lawrence D. Fredendall, Ed Hill
December 28, 2000
Supply Chain Management (SCM) was once a "pie in the sky" concept that could not be fully achieved. A key barrier was the cost of communicating with and coordinating among the many independent suppliers in each supply chain. SCM is possible because of three changes: technology has developed that ...
Lean Manufacturing: Tools, Techniques, and How to Use Them
1st Edition
By William M Feld
September 28, 2000
There are some very good books available that explain the Lean Manufacturing theory and touch on implementing its techniques. However, you cannot learn "how to be" lean from merely reading the theory. And to be successful in the real-work environment you need a clear comprehension of how lean ...
Back to Basics: Your Guide to Manufacturing Excellence
1st Edition
By Steven A. Melnyk, R. T. Chris Christensen
March 23, 2000
As organizations move into the future, the operations environment needs to expand into Collaborative Planning and Forecast Replenishment (CPFR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operating system to become and remain competitive. These innovative and complex ...
Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization
1st Edition
By Gary A Langenwalter
September 28, 1999
To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so ...
Inventory Classification Innovation: Paving the Way for Electronic Commerce and Vendor Managed Inventory
1st Edition
By Russell Broeckelmann
October 28, 1998
All Inventory is not created equal. Inventory classification is the backbone of distribution profitability. Important inventory management criteria such as customer service level, margin, days supply and EOQ can not be applied across the board by vendor or product category. Therefore, different ...