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- The Encyclopedia of Operations Management
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition
- Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data
- The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
- Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions
- Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
- Demand and Supply Integration: The Key to World-Class Demand Forecasting
- Global Macro Trends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage
- Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
- Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle, Student Workbook
- Supply Chain Network Design: Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain
- A Professional’s Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving: An Integrated Approach for Assessing Issues, Finding Solutions, and Reaching Corporate Objectives
The Encyclopedia of Operations Management: A Field Manual and Glossary of Operations Management Terms and Concepts
by Arthur V. Hill
ISBN 978-0-13-288370-2
2012, 408 pages, Hardcover
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This is the perfect "field manual" for every supply chain or operations management practitioner and student. The field's only single-volume reference, it's uniquely convenient and uniquely affordable. With nearly 1,500 well-organized definitions, it can help students quickly map all areas of operations and supply chain management, and prepare for case discussions, exams, and job interviews. For instructors, it serves as an invaluable desk reference and teaching aid that goes far beyond typical dictionaries. For working managers, it offers a shared language, with insights for improving any process and supporting any training program.
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition
by Martin Christopher
ISBN: 978-0-273-73112-2
2011, 288 pages, Hardcover
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Logistic efficiency and effective supply chain management gives you a competitive advantage by delivering both cost reduction and service enhancement. This book is the unbeatable bestselling guide on how to get it right. New edition fully updated with 4 new chapters on current topics such as sustainability, outsourcing and product design.
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Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data
by Thomas H. Davenport
ISBN: 978-0-13-303943-6
2013, 288 pages, Hardcover
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Organizations are capturing exponentially larger amounts of data than ever, and now they have to figure out what to do with it. Using analytics, you can harness this data, discover hidden patterns, and use this knowledge to act meaningfully for competitive advantage. Suddenly, you can go beyond understanding “how, when, and where” events have occurred, to understand why – and use this knowledge to reshape the future. Now, analytics pioneer Tom Davenport and the world-renowned experts at the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) have brought together the latest techniques, best practices, and research on analytics in a single primer for maximizing the value of enterprise data. Enterprise Analytics is today’s definitive guide to analytics strategy, planning, organization, implementation, and usage. It covers everything from building better analytics organizations to gathering data; implementing predictive analytics to linking analysis with organizational performance.
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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
by Robert Palevich
ISBN: 978-0-13-283761-3
2012, 448 pages, Hardcover
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Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits. Palevich introduces the essential concepts of lean green supply chain management, illuminating them with a comprehensive case study showing how to manage change, innovation, talent, execution, inventory, warehousing, and transportation. He demonstrates how to integrate supply chain sustainability into business scorecards; make more effective use of third-party providers (3PLs); drive more value from information; build a state-of-the-art forecasting system and share it with suppliers; and much more.
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Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions
by Babette E. Bensoussan, Craig S. Fleisher
ISBN: 978-0-13-310102-7
2013, 288 pages, Hardcover
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Since the publication of the original edition, the importance of interpreting business data has become mission critical for professionals in all types of businesses. These professionals have discovered the benefits of business analysis to address their organizations most crucial strategic and tactical challenges. The Second Edition of this successful guide to business analysis, shows readers how to apply analytical tools without having to mire themselves in advanced math or arcane theory. Analysis Without Paralysis teaches readers the fundamentals of business analysis through the use of 12 core tools. Each tool will make the way readers assess and interpret their business’ data more effective, accurate, and actionable. .
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Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
by Craig S. Fleisher, Babette E. Bensoussan
ISBN: 978-0-13-216158-9
2007, 528 pages, Hardcover
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Business success begins with deep clarity about your competition and your business environment. But, even as data gathering has improved dramatically, few business professionals know the state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing their data. Now there’s a comprehensive, immensely practical guide to today’s best tools and techniques for answering tough questions and making actionable recommendations.
Business and Competitive Analysis begins with end-to-end guidance on the analysis process, including defining problems, avoiding analytical pitfalls, choosing tools, and communicating results. Next, the authors offer detailed guides on 24 of today’s most valuable analysis models: techniques that have never been brought together in one book before.They offer in-depth, step-by-step guidance for using every technique–along with realistic assessments of strengths, weaknesses, feasibility, and business value.
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Demand and Supply Integration: The Key to World-Class Demand Forecasting
by Mark Moon
ISBN: 978-0-13-308801-4
2013, 300 pages, Hardcover
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Supply chain professionals: master pioneering techniques for integrating demand and supply, and create demand forecasts that are far more accurate and useful! In Demand and Supply Integration, Dr. Mark Moon presents the specific design characteristics of a world-class demand forecasting management process, showing how to effectively integrate demand forecasting within a comprehensive Demand and Supply Integration (DSI) process. Writing for supply chain professionals in any business, government agency, or military procurement organization, Moon explains what DSI is, how it differs from approaches such as SandOP, and how to recognize the symptoms of failures to sufficiently integrate demand and supply. He outlines the key characteristics of successful DSI implementations, shows how to approach Demand Forecasting as a management process, and guides you through understanding, selecting, and applying the best available qualitative and quantitative forecasting techniques.
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Global Macro Trends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage
by Chad W. Autry, Thomas J. Goldsby, John E. Bell
ISBN: 978-0-13-294418-2
2013, 304 pages, Hardcover
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Global supply chain decision-makers and practitioners are about to face brutally tough new challenges. They will be called upon to manage supply and demand in a world marked by demographic and economic shifts that will turn their supply and demand markets upside down. They will have to secure crucial supplies in an era when resources are severely constrained. Now, three pioneering supply chain leaders fully illuminate these game-changing challenges, offering a complete decision framework and practical tools, insights, and guidance for systematically mitigating new risks and building long-term supply chain-based competitive advantage. Global Macro Trends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management is the first book to focus squarely on emerging societal, technological, geopolitical, and environmental macro trends that will powerfully impact every supply chain. Authors Chad W. Autry, Thomas J. Goldsby, and John E. Bell walk you through assessing the impacts of population growth, migration, urbanization; socioeconomic change, global connectivity, environmental issues, and geopolitics.
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Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
by Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand
ISBN: 978-0-13-296387-9
2013, 380 pages, Hardcover
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Optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate multiple products and services within ever-changing networks. Marc J. Schniederjans and Stephen B. Legrand walk you through: starting, creating, and building new supply chains; then, realigning those supply chains for growth, adjusting to dynamic change, readjusting networks, building flexibility, and managing new supply chain risks. Throughout the book, they offer invaluable insights and tools for negotiating, measuring performance, anticipating change, improving agility and flexibility, meeting commitments to social responsibility and the law; and much more.
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Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle, Student Workbook
by Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand
ISBN: 978-0-13-312218-3
2013, 180 pages, Softcover
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With this up-to-date, hands-on study guide to accompany the innovative reference on managing the supply chain lifecycle, authors Schniederjans and Legrand help students and practitioners master all aspects of recasting and improving the global supply chain, and prepare them for professional certification as well as advanced degrees on the topic. Fully aligned with the current edition of Reinventing the Supply Chain Lifecycle, this workbook-style book includes chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, chapter questions, reviews of key terms and concepts, additional cases and examples, student self quizzes, and more.
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Supply Chain Network Design: Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain
by Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, Jay Jayaraman
ISBN: 978-0-13-301737-3
2012, 432 pages, Hardcover
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Using strategic supply chain network design, companies can achieve dramatic savings from their supply chains. Now, experts at IBM and Northwestern University have brought together both the rigorous principles and the practical applications you need to master. You’ll learn how to use supply chain network design to select the right number, location, territory, and size of warehouses, plants, and production lines; and optimize the flow of all products through your supply chain even if extends around the globe. The authors present better ways to decide what to manufacture internally, where to make these products, which products to outsource, and which suppliers to use. They guide you in more effectively managing tradeoffs such as cost vs. service level, improving operational decision-making by integrating analytics throughout supply chain management; and re-optimizing regularly for even greater savings.
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A Professional’s Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving: An Integrated Approach for Assessing Issues, Finding Solutions, and Reaching Corporate Objectives
by Frank A. Tillman, Deandra T. Cassone
ISBN: 978-0-13-286978-2
2012, 472 pages, Hardcover
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A Professional's Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving provides an integrated, start-to-finish framework for more effective problem solving and decision making in corporations. Drawing on vast experience in the field, the authors show how to apply state-of-the-art decision science, statistical modeling, benchmarking, and processing modeling techniques together to create a robust analytical framework for better decision making in any field, especially those that rely on advanced operations management. They integrate both newly-developed and time-tested techniques into a logical, structured approach for assessing corporate issues, developing solutions, and making decisions that drive the successful achievement of corporate objectives. Coverage includes: defining objectives, exploring the environment; scoping problems and evaluating their importance; bringing data mining and statistical analysis to bear; solving problems and measuring the results; evaluating the results and performing sensitivity analysis, and more.
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