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Back to Basics
Your Guide to Manufacturing Excellence
- 197 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
About this book
As organizations move into the future, the operations environment needs to expand into Collaborative Planning and Forecast Replenishment (CPFR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operating system to become and remain competitive. These innovative and complex methods require an unprecedented degree of accuracy
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- The Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- About APICS
- Contents
- Dedications
- Chapter 1. Why the Basics?
- Chapter 2. Understanding Management: The Basics of Problem-Solving
- Chapter 3. What Type of Company Are We?
- Chapter 4. Understanding the Importance of Metrics
- Chapter 5. Process Thinking: Key to the Basics
- Chapter 6. Capacity: You Can't Build It if You Don't Have the Capacity
- Chapter 7. Understanding the Nature of Setups
- Chapter 8. Inventory: The Most Misunderstood Corporate Asset
- Chapter 9. Odds and Ends of Manufacturing Basics
- Chapter 10. Getting Things Done, and Done Right, the FIrst Time: The Basics of Implementation
- Index
- Back cover