Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in any inventory management role or function! Now, there’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice inventory management in any organization. Authored by world-class experts in collaboration with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this text illuminates planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating all the activities used to efficiently control product flow. The Definitive Guide to Inventory Management covers long-term strategic decisions; mid-term tactical decisions; and even short-term operational decisions. Topics discussed include: <ul>
<li> Basic inventory management goals, roles, concepts, purposes, and terminology </li> <li> Key inventory management elements, processes, and interactions </li> <li> Principles/strategies for establishing efficient and effective inventory flows </li> <li> Using technology in inventory planning and management </li> <li> New approaches to inventory reduction: postponement, vendor-managed inventories, cross-docking, and quick response systems </li> <li> Trade-offs between inventory and transportation costs, including carrying costs </li> <li> Requirements and challenges of global inventory management </li> <li> Best practices, metrics, and frameworks for assessing inventory management performance </li> </ul>

Definitive Guide to Inventory Management, The: Principles and Strategies for the Efficient Flow of Inventory across the Supply Chain (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)

Business & Money

CSCMP

Waller, Matthew

Esper, Terry

Management & Leadership

Pearson FT Press

This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain warehousing processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it explains each warehousing option, basic warehousing storage and handling operations, strategic planning, and the effects of warehousing design and service decisions on total logistics costs and customer service. This reference introduces crucial concepts including product handling, labor management, warehouse support, and extended value chain processes, facility ownership, planning, and strategy decisions; materials handling; warehouse management systems; Auto-ID, AGVs, and much more. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Warehousing helps you optimize all facets of warehousing, one of the most pivotal areas of supply chain management. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Basic warehousing management concepts and their essential role in demand fulfillment </li> <li> Key elements, processes, and interactions in warehousing operations management </li> <li> Principles and strategies for effectively planning and managing warehouse operations </li> <li> Principles and strategies for designing materials handling operations in warehousing facilities </li> <li> Critical roles of technology in managing warehouse operations and product flows </li> <li>Best practices for assessing the performance of warehousing operations using standard metrics and frameworks</li> </ul>

Definitive Guide to Warehousing, The: Managing the Storage and Handling of Materials and Products in the Supply Chain (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)

Keller, Scott

Keller, Brian

This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain order fulfillment and customer service processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute knowledge and best practices for all facets of order fulfillment and customer service process management, from initial customer inquiry through post sales service and support. CSCMP and contributor Stanley Fawcett introduce crucial concepts ranging from customer order cycles to available-to-promise and supply chain RFID to global order capture networks. The Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service imparts a deep understanding of each crucial process, helping readers optimize your most important customer contacts. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Basic concepts of order fulfillment and customer service, and their essential roles in meeting customer expectations </li> <li> Key elements and processes in order fulfillment and customer service, and interactions amongst them </li> <li> Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable order fulfillment and customer service processes </li> <li> The critical role of technology in managing order fulfillment and customer service processes </li> <li> Requirements and challenges of global order fulfillment and customer service processes </li> <li> Best practices for assessing the performance of order fulfillment and customer service processes using standard metrics and frameworks </li> </ul>
For all supply chain and operations managers, students, and other business professionals and decision-makers who are concerned with order fulfillment or customer service.

Definitive Guide to Order Fulfillment and Customer Service, The: Principles and Strategies for Planning, Organizing, and Managing Fulfillment and ... of Supply Chain Management Professionals)

Fawcett, Stanley

Fawcett, Amydee

Master supply chain management concepts, components, principles, processes, interactions, and best practices: all the knowledge you need to start designing, implementing, and managing modern supply chains! The Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management brings together all the knowledge you need to help companies gain competitive advantage from supply chains. Co-written by a leading supply chain expert and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference provides up-to-the-minute insight into the roles of supply chain management in improving customer service, reducing costs, and improving financial performance. Clearly and concisely, it introduces modern supply chain management best practices that have been proven to work in organizations of many sizes, types, and industries. For all supply chain and operations managers and students; and for other professionals who either practice in the field or work closely with practitioners to solve business problems.

Definitive Guide to Integrated Supply Chain Management, The (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)

Gibson, Brian

Chen, Haozhe

Hanna, Joe

Defee, C.

Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement, The: Principles and Strategies for Establishing Efficient, Effective, and Sustainable Supply Management ... of Supply Chain Management Professionals)

Wendy Tate

To effectively address tomorrow's supply chain challenges, students and practitioners must learn how to recognize problems, identify and evaluate potential solutions, and design effective methods of implementation. For those first entering the field, business case analysis is the best available substitute for hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up experience. For professionals, business case analysis offers a unique opportunity to become familiar with a wide range of scenarios, anticipate future challenges, and prepare for career growth. This book provides multiple, realistic, fact-based scenarios for both academic and managerial analysis of supply chain problems across a wide spectrum of contexts. Its 13 award-winning, custom-designed scenarios have been written by world-renowned experts commissioned by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and edited by Robert M. Frankel, one of the field's leading educators. Each case addresses multiple supply chain/logistics domains, touches multiple functional aspects of the firm, and fully reflects today's complexities. Readers are introduced to the latest best practices as they learn how to integrate functional activities ranging from forecasting and demand planning through order fulfillment and post-sales service. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) is the preeminent worldwide professions association dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of research and knowledge on supply chain management. With nearly 10,000 members representing nearly all industry sectors, government, and academia from 67 countries, CSCMP members are the leading practitioners and authorities in the fields of logistics and supply chain management. Book jacket.

Definitive Guide to Supply Chain Best Practices, The

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