Author: Jeffrey P. Wincel ISBN: 156327289X / 9781563272899 Year: 2004 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Unlike other strategic procurement guides, Lean Supply Chain Management considers an organization's "business condition" as a contributing factor in the development of a strategic procurement strate...
Author: Josef Packowski ISBN: 1482205335 / 9781482205336 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses. So why do so many supply chains struggle to fulfill customer requirements at competitive costs? T...
Author: Dennis Averill ISBN: 1439857164 / 9781439857168 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance defines safety as the maintenance of peace of mind. Without peace of mind, or the serenity brought about by a safe working environment, employees will be unw...
Author: Richard E. Mallory ISBN: 113848184X / 9781138481848 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The concepts of quality management have been progressively interpreted and stylized by various practitioners over time, particularly through specific successful applications of its use. Its current ...
Author: David Dietrich, Elizabeth A Cudney, Sandra L. Furterer ISBN: 1466556803 / 9781466556805 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Lean Systems : Applications and Case Studies in Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare details the various Lean techniques and numerous real-world Lean projects drawn from a wide variety of manufac...
Author: Joe Bichai ISBN: 1482235641 / 9781482235647 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Learn how a factory condemned to closure transformed itself into the most productive North American manufacturer in its field. Follow the actual process that turned wasteful bad habits—includi...
Author: Suresh Patel ISBN: 1498743366 / 9781498743365 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Books in the Quality and Business Excellence series can help readers improve customer value and satisfaction by integrating the voice of the customer into design, manufacturing, supply chain, and fi...
Author: Arnaldo Camuffo ISBN: 149877363X / 9781498773638 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research, teaching, and practice on lean thinking.
Based on quantitative a...
Author: Mohamed Achahchah ISBN: 1138592277 / 9781138592278 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book provides an overview of the key transportation management processes from a shipper’s perspective. It enables managers to gain quick insight in the added value of transportation as a ...
Author: H. James Harrington ISBN: 1138216771 / 9781138216778 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
Lean TRIZ is a new workshop-based process that brings together teams to focus on specific processes, evolutionary product designs, and improvement opportunities. It combines the insight of TRIZ with...
Author: Marc Jensen ISBN: 1482253178 / 9781482253177 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Wast...
Author: Charles Hagood ISBN: 143986828X / 9781439868287 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement...
Author: Terra Vanzant Stern ISBN: 1138387924 / 9781138387928 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Since the 1980s, Lean and Six Sigma have been used independently to make existing processes better, faster and more cost effective. For almost twenty years, countless companies have embraced the pow...
Author: Productivity Press Development Team ISBN: 156327275X / 9781563272752 Year: 2002 Availability: In Stock
This dictionary, specific to lean business processes, contains over 500 terms used in lean management and manufacturing.
Easy to access, accurate, and comprehensive, LeanSpeak will become the deskt...
Author: Bob Sproull ISBN: 1032611790 / 9781032611792 Year: 2024 Availability: 15-30 days
The content of this book is centered around three seemingly diverse themes. The first theme is why it’s so important for companies to learn from the past, the present, and the future. The auth...
Author: John Renesch, Sarita Chawla ISBN: 1563273403 / 9781563273407 Year: 1995 Availability: In Stock
What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start?
Learning Organizations: Developing Cul...
Author: James Zurn, Perry Mulligan ISBN: 1466572949 / 9781466572942 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
The toughest Lean Journey is one taken in an organization that is successful over a long period. Process and people are fixed in their ways and exhibit engrained behaviors. A natural resistance to c...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 1482237296 / 9781482237290 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery Sys...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 143981385X / 9781439813850 Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This practical guide for healthcare executives, managers, and frontline workers, provides the means to transform your enterprise into a High-Quality Patient Care Business Delivery System. Designed f...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 1482234475 / 9781482234473 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery Sys...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 1482234238 / 9781482234237 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery Sys...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 1482234491 / 9781482234497 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery Sys...
Author: Charles Protzman, George Mayzell, Joyce Kerpchar ISBN: 1482237318 / 9781482237313 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery Sys...
Author: ISBN: 1032611669 / 9781032611662 Year: 2024 Availability: Out of Stock
For years, most have focused on two main drivers while making procurement decisions for any tangible or intangible asset. The first is the design of the asset in terms of functional requirements, ae...
Author: Raymond C. Floyd ISBN: 1420088629 / 9781420088625 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author’s own award winning example at Exxon Chemical),...
