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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: How Integrating
Manufacturing and Services Creates Customer Value, Second Edition
addresses the unprecedented array of new conditions that today's
business managers must face. The book is a revision of the authors'
previous book, New Methods of Competing in the Global Marketplace,
Critical Success Factors from Service and Manufacturing. The
concepts underpinning the first edition continue to be relevant
today and, in this revised edition, are complemented with coverage
of additional emerging issues in today's business environment. The
basic theme of the book is captured in its title and illustrated
with the addition of case studies of some of today's most prominent
companies. See What's New in the Second Edition: The emerging
relationship between risk management and supply management Risk
management, and its corollary, crisis management Trends in
outsourcing, such as near-sourcing and in-sourcing Health care
improvement programs to reduce cost and improve quality
Sustainability - alternative energy infrastructure and the triple
bottom line Integration of supply chain services to align goods,
information and funds flows Advances in information technology,
i.e., cloud computing, videoconferencing Present, and potential,
role of social media in attracting customers, servicing customers
and building network trading partners. This second edition creates
greater awareness of the benefits that businesses can gain by
sharing techniques and methodologies across the
manufacturing/services boundary. The book emphasizes that
successful change management requires a holistic focus on three
levels of an organization - its technology, infrastructure, and
organizational culture. It includes solutions and implementation
strategies for risk and crisis management, sourcing, healthcare,
alternative energy infrastructure, integration of supply chain
services, advances in IT, social media, and customer relationship
building.
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 must come together. To show the
logic behind why supply chain management is essential, the text
examines how supply chains are evolving, looks ahead to new
developments, and provides a balanced look at supply chains with a
focus on both the customer side and the supplier side of supply
chains. See What's New in the Second Edition: Expanded coverage of
current topics such as e-commerce, risk management, outsourcing and
reshoring, sustainability, project management, and data analytics
Increased emphasis on how customers are becoming more influential
in steering product design Additional coverage of the use of data
analytics to evaluate customer preferences and buying patterns A
new chapter devoted to logistics and its increasing importance in
supply chains Company profiles of organizations with effective
supply chains that illustrate the main theme of each chapter A "Hot
Topic" for each chapter, providing a description of a critical
management issue to stimulate class discussion A complete set of
instructor materials for each chapter, including presentation
slides, test banks, class exercises, discussion questions, and more
From the point of distribution to the final customer, all the way
back to the point of origin at the mine or farm, the text provides
examples and case histories that illustrate a proven approach for
achieving effective supply chain integration. This self-contained
resource provides readers with a realistic appraisal of the state
of the art in supply chain management and the understanding needed
to build and manage effective supply chains in a wide range of
industries. Most importantly, it emphasizes the need for building
and maintaining collaboration among all members of the supply
chain.
All organizations operate in an environment that is rapidly
changing. To be successful, the organization must also change. The
question is what to change and how. This book will describe in some
detail a number of management programs, many of which are known by
their three-letter acronyms, such as Justin-Time (JIT) or
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A management program is
designed to improve an organization's effectiveness and efficiency.
However, there are so many management programs it is often
difficult for managers to decide which one would be most
appropriate for their operation. This book will describe an array
of management programs and group them to indicate their primary
purpose. The book will also outline a process that will enable
managers to select the most appropriate management program to meet
their immediate and long-term needs. Implementing a management
program is no small task. It can be expensive, time-consuming, and
disruptive of normal operations; therefore, the choice of the
management program requires careful selection and implementation.
Care must be taken to increase the likelihood of successfully
implementing new ventures in all types of organizations - business,
nonprofit and governmental agencies. Many ventures fail, or achieve
limited success, not because the idea isn't good but because the
organization has not adequately prepared its internal capabilities
to meet the environmental conditions in which it operates. An
important feature of this book is that it can be updated
periodically to add new programs and phase out programs no longer
relevant. The book will provide readers with a comprehensive
description of the most popular management improvement programs and
their primary applications to their organizations. We will discuss
the philosophy and principles of these programs and include a
discussion on how to use each program to achieve optimum success. A
central theme of this book is to not just adopt an improvement
program for the sake of adopting it, but to match the improvement
program with the specific needs in an organization. In the chapters
that follow, we will illustrate how this matching process can be
conducted. Above all, we plan the book to be a concise and useful
resource to both practitioners and academics. Here is what you can
expect in the chapters.
All organizations operate in an environment that is rapidly
changing. To be successful, the organization must also change. The
question is what to change and how. This book will describe in some
detail a number of management programs, many of which are known by
their three-letter acronyms, such as Justin-Time (JIT) or
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A management program is
designed to improve an organization's effectiveness and efficiency.
However, there are so many management programs it is often
difficult for managers to decide which one would be most
appropriate for their operation. This book will describe an array
of management programs and group them to indicate their primary
purpose. The book will also outline a process that will enable
managers to select the most appropriate management program to meet
their immediate and long-term needs. Implementing a management
program is no small task. It can be expensive, time-consuming, and
disruptive of normal operations; therefore, the choice of the
management program requires careful selection and implementation.
Care must be taken to increase the likelihood of successfully
implementing new ventures in all types of organizations - business,
nonprofit and governmental agencies. Many ventures fail, or achieve
limited success, not because the idea isn't good but because the
organization has not adequately prepared its internal capabilities
to meet the environmental conditions in which it operates. An
important feature of this book is that it can be updated
periodically to add new programs and phase out programs no longer
relevant. The book will provide readers with a comprehensive
description of the most popular management improvement programs and
their primary applications to their organizations. We will discuss
the philosophy and principles of these programs and include a
discussion on how to use each program to achieve optimum success. A
central theme of this book is to not just adopt an improvement
program for the sake of adopting it, but to match the improvement
program with the specific needs in an organization. In the chapters
that follow, we will illustrate how this matching process can be
conducted. Above all, we plan the book to be a concise and useful
resource to both practitioners and academics. Here is what you can
expect in the chapters.
The major differences between this book and richard's previous
title published with TELOS in Jan. '94, are that a) in "Projects"
theory was stated, then projects listed as exercises. In "Topics"
there will be a set of problems. while the author will refer to
some of the more useful algotithms in the "Prjects" text, most
algorithms in the "Topics" vilume will be distincly new. Also, b)
while "Prjects" in a course book (in context and design) with
assigned Problems, "Topics" is inteded as a research reference with
stated solutions. The author feels this is an extention of
"Projects." "Topics" has a 40-page appendix and no diskette.
Finally, the overall style and level of presentation are directed
towars the research professional in "Topics," rather than a
textbook approach.
This interdisciplinary book provides a compendium of projects, plus numerous example programs for readers to study and explore. Designed for advanced undergraduates or graduates of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal with scientific computation in their future studies and research, it also contains new and useful reference materials for researchers. The problem sets range from the tutorial to exploratory and, at times, to "the impossible". The projects were collected from research results and computational dilemmas during the authors tenure as Chief Scientist at NeXT Computer, and from his lectures at Reed College. The content assumes familiarity with such college topics as calculus, differential equations, and at least elementary programming. Each project focuses on computation, theory, graphics, or a combination of these, and is designed with an estimated level of difficulty. The support code for each takes the form of either C or Mathematica, and is included in the appendix and on the bundled diskette. The algorithms are clearly laid out within the projects, such that the book may be used with other symbolic numerical and algebraic manipulation products
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