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Competitive manufacturing / Hal Mather.

By: Mather, Hal.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1988(1992)Description: xxiii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0131550292; 0131567535.Subject(s): Production managementDDC classification: 658.5
Contents:
How effective logistics can make your company more competitive - and more profitable -- The first step toward a bigger bottom line: Look at your business as a flow process -- How to tackle industry's toughest planning dilemma: The P:D ratio -- Planning step 1: Create a strategic plan that drives the total business -- Planning step 2: Create a master schedule that gets the right product to the right place at the right time -- Planning step 3: Design products to give customers what they want - When they want it -- How to work your plan now that you've planned your work -- Slash a business risk and improve customer service by reducing stacked lead time -- How to achieve manufacturing's top three goals: Increase output, reduce costs, and generate cash -- Hurdling the biggest obstacle to manufacturing excellence: Product variety -- Toss out traditional accounting and measure your way to success -- How to prepare today for the factory of tomorrow.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00152559
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Shows what measures a plant must take to stay ahead of rivals and sharpen its competitive edge to meet future marketing challenges. Covers how to: streamline product design and improve logistic efficiency, purchase the right materials at the right time, speed production, and achieve dramatic improvements in profits and customer service. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bibliography: (page 233) and index.

How effective logistics can make your company more competitive - and more profitable -- The first step toward a bigger bottom line: Look at your business as a flow process -- How to tackle industry's toughest planning dilemma: The P:D ratio -- Planning step 1: Create a strategic plan that drives the total business -- Planning step 2: Create a master schedule that gets the right product to the right place at the right time -- Planning step 3: Design products to give customers what they want - When they want it -- How to work your plan now that you've planned your work -- Slash a business risk and improve customer service by reducing stacked lead time -- How to achieve manufacturing's top three goals: Increase output, reduce costs, and generate cash -- Hurdling the biggest obstacle to manufacturing excellence: Product variety -- Toss out traditional accounting and measure your way to success -- How to prepare today for the factory of tomorrow.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • How effective logistics can make your company more competitive and more profitable
  • The first step toward a bigger bottom line: look at your business as a flow process
  • How to tackle industry's toughest planning dilemma: the P:D ratio
  • Planning step 1: create a strategic plan that drives the total business
  • Planning step 2: Create a master schedule that gets the right product to the right place at the right time
  • Planning step 3: design products to give customers what they what when they want it
  • How to work your plan now that you've planned your work
  • Slash business risk and improve customer service by reducing stacked lead time
  • How to achieve manufacturing's top three goals: increase output, reduce costs, and generate cash
  • Hurdling the biggest obstacle to manufacturing excellence: product variety
  • Toss out traditional accounting and measure your way to success
  • Divide (yourself) and conquer (the competitor)
  • Measurements to motivate progress toward business strategic goals
  • How to prepare today for the factory of tomorrow
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • Index

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