Books in the Resource Management series

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.

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.

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.

The true promise and benefits of supply chain management (SCM) eludes many organizations. This book demonstrates how to identify and solve potentially difficult or budget-busting pitfalls before they derail success. It shows readers how their supply chain can evolve into a collaboration community and add significant profits to the bottom line.

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.

Offers guidance of how and why real-time events within the plant floor management infrastructure should be an integral online systems link within the supply chain process. This work presents an overview of the resources planning systems and the design and management of plant data systems, including manufacturing execution systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charts the course to success for executives who are seeking to lead their organizations to supply-chain maturity. This book offers a path, describing an integrated approach to supply chain management based upon solid market intelligence. It offers a maturity model tool that covers various facets of end-to-end supply-chain management.

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.

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.

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.

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.