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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| 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) |