Factory physics for managers : how leaders improve performance in a post-lean six sigma world /

A crash course in the practical science of operations designed to help you: Achieve best possible profit, cash flow, and customer service; Attain highest return with existing Lean, Six Sigma, and ERP initiatives; Manage your capacity, inventory, response time, and variability with high predictabilit...

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Main Authors: Pound, Edward S. (Author), Bell, Jeffrey H. (Author), Spearman, Mark L. (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:A crash course in the practical science of operations designed to help you: Achieve best possible profit, cash flow, and customer service; Attain highest return with existing Lean, Six Sigma, and ERP initiatives; Manage your capacity, inventory, response time, and variability with high predictability; Simplify management of complexity using existing IT systems; Use the fundamentals of science to ensure your operation's success; See your company and procedures more clearly; Improve intuition, decision making, and strategy execution. You'll find new ways to improve your leadership by predictively managing the tradeoffs that every operation faces-whether it's more or less inventory or capacity, higher or lower customer service, or more or fewer products. Using this approach, you can tackle these natural conflicts in business through a practical, comprehensive science of operations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (2923 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780071822503 (print-ISBN)
007182250X (print-ISBN)
9780071822619 (e-ISBN)
0071822615 (e-ISBN)