1st Edition

Back to Basics Your Guide to Manufacturing Excellence

224 Pages
by CRC Press

197 Pages
by CRC Press

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 and knowledge of the basics in operations... Read more
Why The Basics?
Understanding Management: The Basics of Problem Solving
What Type of Company Are We?
Understanding the Importance of Metrics
Process Thinking: Key to the Basics
Capacity: You Can't Build It If You Don't Have the Capacity
Understanding the Nature of Setups
Inventory: The Most Misunderstood Corporate Asset
Odds and Ends of Manufacturing Basics
Getting Things Done and Done Right the First Time: The Basics of Implementation
Index

Biography

Steven A. Melnyk, R. T. Chris Christensen