In his book Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines, Paul Ericksen shares over three dozen personal experiences where he was responsible for fundamental changes to purchasing strategy and practice that increased the competitiveness of the companies and clients he worked at and for. His stories show how a more collaborative approach ......
Leveraging AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics for Success
We are in the early stages of a transformational period in our economic and digital age that will revolutionize the manufacturing value chain. As this period progresses, there will be opportunities to optimize key activities across manufacturing, supply chain planning, distribution, procurement, and contracting. Organizations that apply ......
Introduction to Operations Management: A Supply Chain Process Approach details how firms buy, make, deliver, and return goods and services around the globe, providing students with a solid foundation of operations management concepts and techniques. The text offers a set of activities that guide the effectiveness of organizations and prepare ......
A Graphic Novel about IT, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win
Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule.
This book navigates us through thick and thin and gives us a holistic description of what is supply chain resilience, which are the factors that affect it, and which are the most effective resilience strategies that we need to implement in our supply chains in order to survive during turbulent times. In a world where pandemics, natural disasters, ......
This 3rd edition book provides a multi-perspective approach to strategic sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from various disciplines and professional backgrounds.Some of the key features of this second volume include a how-to guide on implementation for strategic sustainable supply chain management (S3CM): Short vignettes ......
This 3rd edition book provides a multi-perspective approach to strategic sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from various disciplines and professional backgrounds.Some of the key features of this first volume include a how-to guide on foundational information for strategic sustainable supply chain management (S3CM): Short ......
The service process design landscape is rapidly evolving, with technology-enabled innovations allowing the service provider to create a more personalized service experience and customers to take a more active role in the service process.Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value was written to help you understand the opportunities (and ......
Good project decisions result in successful careers and profitable companies. Bad decisions can be costly and cause operational downtime, may hurt employee morale, and impact customers and suppliers. Making a good decision has become very difficult because of increasing operating complexity and less marketplace predictability. Because of this: ......
