Books in the Resource Management series

The book identifies actions that improve higher education outcomes including lower tuition costs, better access for student from low and middle income homes, faster throughput, fewer dropouts, and better job opportunities for graduates. It links a real and implementable solution to the underlying problems and their root causes.

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 years of experience, Supply Chain Construction: The Basics for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash presents an integrated, comprehensive blueprint for building and/or rebuilding an end-to-end supply chain. Emphasizing flexibility and strength, the book explores optimal ways to withstand product evolution, contingencies, organizational life cycles, and disasters for the long haul. Each chapter begins with a storyline describing the interpersonal relationships and intrapersonal conflicts that attend change. This is followed by a logical sequence of checklists, diagrams, maps, mathematical models, and spreadsheets for each topic. The author presents a 20-step blueprint that defines the supply chain network container and its product contents and includes example applications of the blueprint to nontraditional businesses found in small to medium-sized companies. He also includes decision factor charts for selecting the right suppliers, factories, and distributors; comprehensive examples of both forward and reverse supply chain network construction; and detailed explanations of inbound, midbound, and outbound logistics considerations. Just as a surgeon performing a delicate operation needs to understand the consequences of cutting into an intersection of the body's internal organs, you, the supply chain practitioner, need to understand the consequences of cutting into an intersection of a network's material flow, information flow, and cash flow. Covering the practical issues of highly integrated networks woven together by corporate relationships and enabled by information technology, this book shows you how to systematically build and/or rebuild a robust supply chain that not only ensures growth, but also solidifies the future of your company as a whole.

Directing the ERP Implementation: A Best Practice Guide to Avoiding Program Failure Traps While Tuning System Performance supplies best practices along with a proven roadmap for improving the odds of system implementation success. By adhering to the time-tested framework outlined in the book, readers will be able to commit to the precepts and practices that lead to successful implementations. Supplying an innovative and fast-track, yet comprehensive, approach to ERP implementation success, the book provides practical guidance to help executive leadership do the right things along the ERP journey.

This book presents a risk management framework that will help readers position and conceptualize the topic of supply chain risk management. With this framework, practitioners will be able to reduce costs associated with risk, protect their brand and reputation, ensure positive financial outcomes, and begin to develop visible, predictable, resilient, and sustainable supply chains. The book provides access to a Cloud-based, end-to-end supply chain risk assessment "Heat Map" which illustrates the maturity of the chain through the various stages.

Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are among the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. This book presents strategies for recognizing the challenges and optimizing the opportunities for building network capabilities and competitive advantage within the context of these emerging markets. It provides a thorough review of the literature and an unparalleled abundance of fascinating case studies featuring Japanese, Korean, and indigenous business examples. The information is presented within a fully formulated theoretical framework of technological competence, customer competence, and linkage competence, as well as covering the concepts of product architecture and supply chain management.

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 these increased requirements. Providing a roadmap for leveraging existing investments in food safety regulatory compliance into superior inventory management, Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain explains how to implement Lean operating principles to determine what needs to be improved, in what sequence improvements must be addressed, how one improvement feeds another, and the prerequisites for each improvement.Based on the authorΓÇÖs experience working with hundreds of manufacturers, the book discusses cause-and-effect thinking, data accuracy, process simplification, process reliability, and workforce development. It includes how-to recommendations for implementing best practices to achieve these goals. These recommendations come together in the discussions on Batch-Process ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and also the Lean Management System and the useful techniques within it. The author also discusses the rapidly developing business requirement of sustainability, which is quickly moving from an optional, voluntary, and "nice to do" status to a "must do" status.The book can be read in whole or in part by everyone from the CEO to the factory floor supervisor; the language is nontechnical. But, to aid comprehension, each chapter concludes with an extensive quiz, and the appendix has definitions that will be new vocabulary for many. Normally large companies have the resources to fund the implementation of best practices, smaller companies less so. This book benefits both. In the case of the small- to medium-size manufacturer, it is a roadmap, and for the major corporation it is a tool to help assist their supplier community. It can help any organization achieve world-class excellence in operations and supply-chain management.

Defines the term 'Macrologistics' as a means for designing a catalyst for change in any organization. This book teaches how to unleash new sources of synergy - ways for various groups involved with the organization to work together - that help promote creativity and motivate an effective revolution in your workplace.

Based on the popular "Back to Basics" columns that appear in the magazine "APICS: The Performance Advantage", this title details the key concepts necessary to expertly apply fresh approaches such as ERP, CPFR, and VMI. It includes topics such as: capacity, inventory, inventory accuracy, part numbering, processes, and problem solving.

Illustrating how to get the most out of technology, this book explains in non-technical terms how an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can integrate various functions of a manufacturing company. It describes how to select the right ERP system and use it to operate more effectively and efficiently.

Examines disassembly on the intermediate level, incorporating design for disassembly, concurrent design, and reverse logistics. This book incorporates real world case examples to explore the three main areas of application of the theory: assembly optimization, maintenance and repair, and end-of-life processing.

Education and training are the single most important precursors to successful ERP implementations. Specifically defining a comprehensive method for planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating ERP training efforts, this book includes formulas for determining training return on investment.

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. This book explores inventory classification techniques used successfully in large multi-branch distribution.

Offers insight and recommendations in Supply Chain Management. This book provides an overview of supply chain management in an informative way. It covers the specific tools and techniques for effective supply chain analysis and management. It frames logistics and supply chain management in the strategic and competitive context.

This book is not only about understanding business strategy development; it also provides the tools for strategy execution. Offering a current perspective on the importance of developing an integrated strategy for change, the text presents proven implementation tools, in the tradition of Lean and Six Sigma, needed to navigate, design, and execute the strategic plan. Demonstrating how a well-developed strategy generates excitement within an organization, the authors present insights on implementation tools from a goal setting, building measures, balanced scorecard, and aligning actions perspective.

After introducing the principles of lean, this work discusses how to implement them in the IT environment. It details the measures that can be used to define a world class IT system and explains how components of an integrated IT system can be structured in accordance with lean.

Offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts in managing the flow of materials both inside an individual organization and throughout the supply chain. This title includes topics such as performance measures, quality management, forecasting and customer linkages, manufacturing planning and control systems, JIT, TPM, and partnering.

Offering a definition and understanding of what MES is and how it works, this title shows how to tie the many variables of manufacturing into a better production process using an integrated computer system. It addresses issues regarding computers and communication equipment, as well as data entry methods and equipment.

Describes, from the perspective of a business manager, concepts and tools for enterprise planning, management, and execution. This book introduces topics, including: supplier relationship management (SRM); strategic sourcing; Product Life Cycle Management (PLM); technology architecture choices; and, customer relationship management.

Offering a comprehensive review of business computing, this book features chapters on the fundamentals of computing and their enabling power as well as the basics of contemporary ERP/supply chain business solutions. It highlights integrative software tools that allow for fresh levels of collaboration, flexibility, and performance.

The horizontal integration of supply chains both internally and externally is critical and the result of applying the concepts of Business Process Organization across a network of companies. This book demonstrates how companies can build successful supply chain networks.

Any supply chain improvement project, even if well conceived, has a chance of failing, unless the accompanying information technology enables the design. This book offers you the tools to not only design new supply chains, but to design them effectively. It provides insights into the special requirements for improving supply chains.

Applies five crucial business principles to solve network problems for geographically separated workers who must team together to deliver products and services. This work helps to transform marginal business relationships into exceptionally competitive networks.

Focusing on the impact of the Internet on tactical and strategic elements of supply chain management (SCM), this book details how enterprises can leverage the merger of SCM and e-business to exploit the competitive advantage from supply chain partnerships.

Presenting a roadmap to leadership for supply chain professionals, this book details the qualities considered benchmarks for measuring leadership success. It provides a historical look at leadership in supply chain management complemented by interviews with leaders in industry and government across three continents.

A guide for navigating the complexities inherent to the execution and management of global logistics and sourcing, supplier development and materials management. It addresses the issues of product and service flow disruptions. It also provides a list of potential supply chain disruptions.

Discusses how the entire internal and external supply chain of contributes to, or challenges, efforts to optimize product inventory and delivery. This book also discusses both obvious and hidden factors, including those related to sales, marketing, purchasing, manufacturing, warehousing, IT, and distribution.

Presents a lean business process design and implementation project management methodology that integrates strategy, people, process, information technology, and lean to manage the project implementation of the virtual lean enterprise. This book uses a conversational tone to facilitate understanding of concepts.

Describes the steps, difficulties, and rewards of implementing Lean Production. This book intends to provide information for you to set out and begin implementing Lean within your organization. It applies a model to illustrate the principles and practices of lean production.

Offers insight into the appropriate use of assessment, analysis, design, and most importantly, deployment of a successful lean manufacturing program. Packed with practical advice and tips, this book covers the implementation of lean manufacturing. It includes the tools and techniques along with an understanding of how and why they work.