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Value Stream Management
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Practical book.......2007-08-14
VSM books shows interesting process to apply modern control thinking to production. However, clear products standardisation & determination process could be necessary before methods can be applied as well as possible.
Discussed waste elimination is generally nice approach. Waste elimination possibilities in organisations should to be evaluated with this book and more generally at lean bibliography, because elimination of waste helps almost everybody. :)
Good step-by-step recipe book for lean implementation.......2006-09-15
This book provides a practical approach for implementing lean manufacturing and what pit-falls should be avoided during the lean journey. Recommended for organizations that are beginning lean manaufacturing implementation.
Good primer.......2004-07-23
I use this book in my lean manufacturing class. It has good practical examples and a useful method for doing lean using the value stream mapping approach. I highly receommend this book for the first timers. I think someone who has no experience could get started using this book.
An Excellent Tool for all!!.......2002-10-23
This book has helped in all areas of our business. We are incorporating it into all of our processes!! Wonderful training tool for any organization.
Great tools for Leaning your facility.......2002-10-12
This book gave me great insight to re-initialized our lean efforts. We have been so busy and got caught up in the value stream mapping craze and kaizen events, but little impact. This book did a superb job in laying out the eight steps, with all the forms, templates necessary to ensure sustainable results. Great work by the authors!
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Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader
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This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems. It emphasises the importance of effective management of supply chains and supply networks across all stages of the complete 'cradle-to-grave ' product life cycle, including the phases of purchase by consumers and other end users, product use and support, and end-of-life reprocessing. It reflects the increasing importance of supply chain management to organizations of all types, across service sectors as well as in manufacturing.The readings are presented in four distinct sections, focusing on: theoretical and conceptual issues; inter-organizational relationships within product systems; achieving change within organizations; and particular issues and challenges for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. An introductory chapter by the editors establishes a framework for advancing policy and practice across total products system. The readings are interdisciplinary and international, appealing to a world-wide audience.
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Purchasing Strategies for Total Quality details how to purchase competitively priced goods and services in a global marketplace. It teaches you how to develop a customer focus and make quality the driving factor in buying decisions. Hutchins shows readers how to: establish continuous improvement strategies with suppliers; infuse quality throughout an organization and demand the same from product suppliers; build long-term partnering with suppliers to constantly improve the quality of the parts and services received.
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Most books on Supply Chain Management simply focus on how to move materials and key resources throughout an industrial enterprise. Reinventing Lean shows how SCM can be made Lean, leading to much more reliable, cost-effective and competitive Supply Chain Management (SCM). In this book, the reader will find a collection of management tools that will help to implement Lean principles, and to understand the components of an integrated Supply Chain Management system. Moreover, the book will show that to make Lean SCM effective, both the functional management tools as well as an enterprise-wide cultural readiness are needed in order to lay the groundwork for a World Class Lean Supply Chain.
Reinventing Lean will carefully lead engineers and manufacturing managers on how to adopt a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy. The book will lay out various proven approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices, by focusing on the ways in which SCM relates to materials, money, and information movement within the manufacturing environment. And because Reinventing Lean recognizes that a successful Lean SCM system cannot be achieved unless an organization supports team integration and the willingness to adapt to change, it provides not only the technical tools but also methods for changing company cultural factors that can make it all come together for a successful operation.
* Industrial engineers and plant managers, with strong backgrounds in SCM, will learn how lean management principles can be utilized to make their organizations leaner, more efficient, and more competitive
* Readers will find out how to lay out various approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices
* Readers can learn how to customize a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy which will give a distinct advantage over the competition
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- Applicable and Interesting
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- Very good book for beginers with sufficient references.
- Great foundational material
- A practical start with one part missing.
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Customer-Centered Supply Chain Management: A Link-By-Link Guide
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CUSTOMER-CENTERED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT A Link-by-Link Guide
In today's environment of globalism and blink-of-the-eye technological change, manufacturing companies must constantly ask themselves these tough questions:
-- Do we have the best suppliers at the lowest possible prices? -- Are we getting and sending materials as quickly as possible? -- Can the voices of our customers be heard in our processes? -- Are customers satisfied with our products?
Transforming a company's 'supply chain' into an optimally efficient, customer-satisfying process is one of the most crucial challenges of our day. This book provides a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to transforming a supply chain. In great detail, it provides a complete 'bridge' to facilitate change:
creating outcome-driven tasks and processes * retooling the structure and business strategy of the organization * setting up effective people/responsibility charts * incorporating technology for maximum benefit * creating performance-based rewards * measuring results FRED A. KUGLIN (Dallas, TX) is a Lead Client Partner at AT&T Solutions. An expert in start-up operations, logistics, and supply chain management, he has worked internationally with companies that include EDS, A.T. Kearney, and Frito-Lay.
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Applicable and Interesting.......2001-06-06
This book successfully combines applicable and valuable information on today's supply chain with an easy to read approach. His examples clearly outline an appropriate course of action and path to follow to improve upon a business' supply chain more toward the customer.
An excellent book for beginners and for those businesses with a little more experience in the field.
Disappointing.......2000-01-13
The book is theoritical and does not provide new practical ideas. It reads like an implementation methodology book more than a management book.
Very good book for beginers with sufficient references........1999-06-14
It's not a bad book for beginers in Supply chain management (SCM). This book introduces you to the basic fundamental with sufficient references. Not this book or any book in the world is comprehensive or plug-in formulation. So, don't expect to buy one-but-get-million. Since this book is only 200 pages, you can finish it in one night with sufficient knowledge to do more research including some URLs for the web-surfers.
Great foundational material.......1998-12-15
Though the concept of Supply Chain is not new, it is a vague and elusive subject. So much of what has been published on the subject more resembles the typical functional areas of operations or traffic management. Supply Chain is so much more but is often mistaken for the former two.
I particularly appreciated this book because of its elementary nature. It made it quite simple to rather quickly develop a comprehension and an appreciation for Supply Chain and, further,to be able to communicate this understanding to others in my organization who are still scratching their heads about this newly implemented function.
A practical start with one part missing........1998-11-05
This is a practical book which covers key issues such as managing change (without it killing you) and how to include quality in each stage. If you have a complex realignment of the business to deliver, this is good value.
However, there is NO direction as to HOW to determine the needs of the customer in terms that will fit the value/supply chain factors.
The direction to do this is paramount in the book, but alas there is not much on how to find and assess customer value determinants in ways that these can fit the supply chain drivers.
My PhD is on this need to retro fit customer value to a supply chain - I got a few good set up quotes but no direction as to how to make it happen.
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Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain
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Organizations in the construction industry struggle with three key issues: quality management or better meeting customer expectations, supply chain management or more effectively working with suppliers to provide a seamless service to customers, and knowledge management, the challenge of learning between collaborating organisations and between people working on similar projects around the world. Excellence in these key aspects of business is the hallmark of great companies.
This book tackles each of these themes, demonstrating their significance as strategic concepts for the construction sector and illustrating how development goals in each of the areas can be met. To be successful Total Quality has to impact on the organisations Performance, which should be measured on a balanced scorecard, including the results from the customer. This can be achieved through good Planning and improvements in Processes through involvement of the People. These 4Ps combine with the 4Cs Customer, Culture, Communication and Commitment to provide a model for implementing total quality into construction.
The book brings together, within this consistent theoretical framework, international case studies from all areas of the construction industry. These include examples as diverse as quarrying, construction, design, real estate, land development and regulatory agencies, drawn from the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Singapore Australia and Japan. Through these the authors demonstrate how a total quality or business excellence strategy can be applied in all activities in the construction supply chain to achieve world-class performance.
Written by two of the world's leading experts, in a logical and very practical style, Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain offers students and others new to the subject a clearly structured introduction to the concept of quality in the industry, while offering help and guidance to the most experienced professionals. The book should also appeal to people from all areas of the building and construction sector in any country.
* Key management techniques applied specifically to the needs of the construction industry
* International case studies demonstrate how to achieve real and lasting improvements in quality across the industry
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TQM for Purchasing Management
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No commitment to quality can ever succeed without applying the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM) to the purchasing function. That's the premise of this informative and practical book, which shows managers why the end quality of any product or service is critically dependent on quality in the purchasing function, and what they can do to enhance it. TQM for Purchasing Management is essential reading for all purchasing managers, many of whom could suddenly find themselves in a new position of responsibility and opportunity, faced with make-or-break decisions that affect both upstream suppliers and downstream ``internal customers.'' It details why total quality within purchasing is so critical, lays out a proven seven-step process for applying TQM to purchasing, and examines other top companies that have done it successfully--all supplemented with appendixes on quality tools and measurement techniques.
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Incredibly useful for dealing with suppliers & supply chains.......2000-05-05
I found this book to be very valuable in my dealings with suppliers. It does a wonderful job of driving home the point that a company's performance is linked to (and often limited by) the performance of its suppliers. When looking at a supply chain, the suppliers are the first link and therefore their impact runs deep and wide as the chain continues. Although this book is a bit advanced to be very helpful to supply chain management (SCM) beginners, I strongly recommend it for anyone involved with SCM issues such as supplier certification, supplier reviews, etc.
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- One of the best!
- Insightful!
- Though repetitive, solid introduction to SC management
- author chose wrong title... waste both time and money.
- This book can be summarized in one page
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Supply Chain Optimization: Building the Strongest Total Business Network
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Supply Chain Optimization illustrates how companies that create, distribute, and sell products or services can join forces to establish a supply network with an unbeatable competitive advantage. Poirier and Reiter explain how companies can successfully employ partnering, rather than working on improvements in isolation, to identify high opportunity initiatives across a total supply network. By applying key resources on focused opportunities and sharing the resulting savings, members of the network get larger results, faster, as well as funding for future efforts.
Supply Chain Optimization offers survival tools for companies of all sizes. The authors describe consortiums, or "share groups," of smaller companies that can compete with the volume leverage of large corporations, superstores, and warehouse stores. By analyzing their shared supply chain and pooling their available resources, these consortiums can find hidden savings to protect their profit margins and remain competitive in today's marketplace.
The book includes case studies that show what a wide range of companies are actually doing to achieve supply chain optimization. Companies profiled include: Financing Division of General Electric, Dial Corporation, Proctor & Gamble, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Navistar/Goodyear, Packaging Corporation of America, Dominick's, Hart Mountain Corporation, and General Motors--Saturn.
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One of the best!.......2001-10-17
This book is a "must-read" for anyone in the business of supply chain management! The partnering and networking chapters are well worth the price. Highly recommended!
Insightful!.......2001-03-27
Authors Charles C. Poirier and Stephen E. Reiter envision a trip down your supply chain like an effortless sail on calm seas. Your organization can reach this placid efficiency, they explain, by forming partnerships with suppliers and others in your business network. But the authors don't ask you to take their word; instead they present detailed case studies of companies that have implemented supply-chain optimization strategies and reaped prodigious benefits. The book's only flaw is its style. It is densely written and often weighed down by prose as murky as a rural delivery system and twice as difficult to penetrate. But we [...] recommend that business owners, corporate managers, executives and logisticians of all levels take the time required to patiently excavate the practical and pragmatic information that lies within.
Though repetitive, solid introduction to SC management.......1999-08-24
An informative guide to supply chain management, particularly for newcomers like myself. Introduction to the conceptual framework, relationship management issues and jargon are the key takeaways. A reader will be fully conversant on supply chain management matters after finishing the book.
As for shortcomings, this book could have been written in a third less print, the job of a disciplined editor. While I understand business books need some heft, brevity is under-rated in this category. Repetition is rampant in this book. After the much needed tightening, a chapter on supply chain management for new or smaller businesses would be a welcome addition.
That being said, I happily lend this book to friends and colleagues, the most practical compliment to a book's authors.
author chose wrong title... waste both time and money........1999-06-06
The authors chose the wrong title, I guess. I agree with first review that this book is not worth time nor money. How could we optimize problem with "verbal"? We all need "solutions" -not "suggestion", even though suggestion is transformed from solution. Still, quantitative analysis comes before explaination for optimization. Look for another book unless you want to spend somes bucks to get the book.
This book can be summarized in one page.......1998-12-11
The main point of this book is: all constituents in the supply chain must work together to achieve mutual benefits. This is repeated 2000 times with different words. Quite an accomplishment in verbosity, but certainly not worth the money. The authors introduce an outdated three-step model and introduce a fourth level, the supplier of the supplier, and call it a new "model", an insult to the reader's intelligence.
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Accountability of Total Purchasing Pilot Projects
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