Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook : Inventory and Production Control

This handbook begins with the history of Supply Chain (SC) Engineering, it goes on to explain how the SC is connected today, and rounds out with future trends. The overall merit of the book is that it introduces a framework similar to sundial that allows an organization to determine where their company may fall on the SC Technology Scale. The book will describe those who are using more historic technologies, companies that are using current collaboration tools for connecting their SC to other global SCs, and the SCs that are moving more towards cutting edge technologies. This book will be a handbook for practitioners, a teaching resource for academics, and a guide for military contractors.

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• Presents a decision model for choosing the best Supply Chain Engineering (SCE) strategies for Service and Manufacturing Operations with respect to Industrial Engineering and Operations Research techniques
• Offers an economic comparison model for evaluating SCE strategies for manufacturing outsourcing as opposed to keeping operations in-house
• Demonstrates how to integrate automation techniques such as RFID into planning and distribution operations
• Provides case studies of SC inventory reductions using automation from AIT and RFID research
• Covers planning and scheduling, as well as transportation and SC theory and problems

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Global Supply Chain Engineering Definitions
Chapter 3 : History of Global Supply Chain Manufacturing and Management
Chapter 4 : How Factory Dynamics and Littles Law Moved Manufacturing to Supply Chains
Chapter 5 : How Total Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma Drove the Need for Supply Chain Integration
Chapter 6 : How Integration Strategies Moved Expanded Supply Chain to Enterprise
Chapter 7 : Working with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Chapter 8 : Outsourcing and the Growth Service, Logistics, and Operations Research
Chapter 9 : Warehousing, Distribution, and Logistics Engineering Expands Because of Outsourcing
Chapter 10 : Transportation and Network Engineering Expands Because of Outsourcing
Chapter 11 : The Internet of Things and the Tracking of Supply Chain Assets
Chapter 12 : The Innovation Path and Distributed Manufacturing (Citizen Science, Maker Movement, and Advanced Manufacturing)
Chapter 13 : Current Research Trends

Index