Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in manufacturing or service operations, anywhere in your supply chain! Now, there’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading expert alongside the the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference describes the planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating functions used to produce goods or services. The Definitive Guide to Manufacturing and Service Operations covers long-term strategic decisions; mid-term tactical decisions; and even short-term operational decisions. Topics discussed include: <ul>
<li> Basic manufacturing and service operations concepts, purposes, terminology, roles, and goals </li> <li> Key elements, processes, and interactions, including facility, material, and labor requirements planning; scheduling; and continuous process and quality improvement </li> <li> Principles, strategies and planning for efficient, effective, and sustainable operations: facilities, production, processes, layout, lead capacity, technology, personnel, measurement, compensation, sustainability, and more </li> <li> Technology for better manufacturing and service operations: MRP II, service systems, ERP, planning, execution, and cost management. </li> <li> Global manufacturing and service operations: LCCs, logistics, labor, financial issues, decisionmaking, contract performance, risk management, and regulation </li> <li> Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks: KPIs, tradeoff analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and exception management </li> </ul>

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The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) brings together state-of-the-art supply chain management case studies to help readers systematically identify challenges, evaluate solutions, plan implementation, and prepare for the future. Commissioned by CSCMP, these realistic, fact-based cases are written by world-renowned experts, and reflect the full complexity of modern supply chain/demand chain/logistics management. Coverage includes: supply chain collaboration, advanced forecasting, management of inventory through cash-to-cash cycles, transportation optimization, and many other topics. Readers are effectively challenged to evaluate each scenario and identify the responses most likely to succeed. As they do so, they will encounter the field’s newest best practices. Even more important, they will learn how to integrate a wide array of functional activities, from forecasting and demand planning through order fulfillment and post-sales service. Using these cases, students and professionals will become familiar with a far wider range of scenarios – enabling them to solve more problems, succeed in new environments, and prepare for faster career growth. This book will be a valuable resource for operations managers, supply chain managers, production and inventory managers and planners, demand planners and managers, supply managers, logistics managers, transportation managers, students in graduate programs in OM and SCM, and professionals in related certification programs.

The Definitive Guide to Supply Chain Best Practices: Comprehensive Lessons and Cases in Effective SCM

Frankel, Robert M., Ph.D.

Drive sustainable supply chain competitive advantage through more effective supplier management and procurement: reduce costs, improve quality, and deliver better service for all customers. This is the most authoritative, complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing supply management and procurement processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for all relevant processes, strategies, and tactics. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement covers all this, and more: <ul>
<li> Basic supply management concepts, purposes, and goals </li> <li> Linkages between procurement and other business functions </li> <li> Day-to-day transactional and long-term strategic activities </li> <li> Category analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and performance evaluation </li> <li> Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable operations, from sourcing teams to supplier rationalization </li> <li> Technology for spend analysis, competitive bidding, eProcurement, eSourcing, auctions/reverse auctions, contract compliance, performance management, and more </li> <li> Requirements and challenges of global sourcing, including insource vs. outsource decisions; TCO analysis; risk management; negotiations, and supplier contract compliance </li> <li>Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks</li> </ul>

The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement: Principles and Strategies for Establishing Efficient, Effective, and Sustainable Supply Management Operations

Tate, Wendy

This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain transportation processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for cost-efficiently and effectively moving goods between sellers and buyers. CSCMP and Thomas Goldsby introduce crucial concepts including transportation modes, execution, and control; outsourcing, modal and carrier selection, and 3PLs; TMS technologies; ocean shipping, international air, customs, and regulation; and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Transportation helps you optimize all facets of transportation, one of the highest-cost, highest-impact areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Basic transportation management concepts and their essential roles in demand fulfillment </li> <li> Key elements, processes, and interactions of transportation operations management </li> <li> Design principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable transportation operations </li> <li> The critical role of technology in managing transportation operations and product flows </li> <li> Requirements and challenges of planning and moving goods between countries </li> <li> Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks </li> </ul>

The Definitive Guide to Transportation: Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services

Goldsby, Thomas J.

Iyengar, Deepak

Rao, Shashank

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