Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines the challenges faced by a leading recycling business in efficiently unloading city trailers that deliver electronic waste. eCycle faces stiff fines if it cannot unload trailers on a timely basis, yet it must handle growing volume without compromising...
by Mykhaylo Kosmykov
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: We study stability properties of interconnected hybrid systems with application to large-scale logistics...
by David Pheasey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In many businesses, supply chain people are trapped in reactive roles where they source, contract, purchase, receive, warehouse, and ship as a service. However, in some businesses suppliers contribute to improvement programs, technology, funding, marketing, logistics, and engineering expertise. Breaking...
How to Make Things Happen
A blueprint for applying knowledge, solving problems and designing systems that deliver your service strategy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book offers models and frameworks to analyze your service delivery systems as a whole. It presents the framework to solve customer problems by delivering the right knowledge at the right time to the right place and take advantage of the efficiency that technology and algorithms offer.
Why...
Creative Innovative Firms from Japan
A Benchmark Inquiry into Firms from Three Rival Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries.
Firstly,...
Challenges of Urban Mobility, Transport Companies and Systems
2018 TranSopot Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
This proceedings volume examines individual city transports, transport companies and entire transport systems. Featuring select contributions presented at the 2018 TranSopot Conference in Sopot, Poland, this book provides an analysis of transportation solutions both at the micro-level (single city...
by Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Because it deals with sustainably supplying cities and reducing congestion and pollution related to goods transport in urban areas, city logistics is an important field in transportation sciences. These logistics systems need to be sustainable and reliable to ensure the continued flow of goods. Logistics...
Sustainable Shipping
A Cross-Disciplinary View
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
International shipping is currently at a crossroads. The decision of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in April 2018 to adopt an Initial Strategy so as to achieve by 2050 a reduction of at least 50% in maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions vis-à-vis 2008 levels epitomizes the last among...
Il valore della produzione nel Toyota Production System
La straordinaria saggezza del monozukuri
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Produrre ciò che vuole il cliente, nella quantità e qualità necessaria, in modo veloce ed economico: questo è il monozukuri. Ma come si può sviluppare un monozukuri vincente? In questo libro Yoshihito Wakamatsu risponde a questa domanda, attraverso racconti di casi di successo, metodologie e...
Social Compliance Accounting
Managing Legitimacy in Global Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book covers key discussions involving major US and European multinational companies (MNCs) that source products from suppliers in developing countries. Due to the transfer of production from developed to developing nations, there is an urgent need to establish social compliance as a new form...
Optimizing Firm Performance
Alignment of Operational Success Drivers on the Basis of Empirical Data
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Academic research has identified several operational drivers in manufacturing companies that have an effect on either the physical production of goods or its distribution: working capital requirements, manufacturing performance, supply chain performance and supply chain risk. Despite the fact that...
Halal SuperHighway
A command & control blueprint for Halal supply chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Technical Report from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, , course: Halal supply chain management, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the Halal SuperHighway design is to provide a blueprint for the command & control of global Halal supply chains....
Toyota China
Matching Supply with Demand
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This case study examines how Toyota China is using demand forecasting, production planning, and customer management techniques to align supply and demand in China's fast-growing automotive market. The authors illuminate the China market's unique channels and challenges, including requirements to project...
Productivity Improvement in Manufacturing SMEs
Application of Work Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book focuses on the application of workstudy in productivity of manufacturing SMEs locally and abroad and also explores various industrial problems which face manufacturing SMEs in developing and underdeveloped countries in the rest of the world. Low productivity is currently a serious challenge...