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New technologies are revolutionising the way manufacturing and supply chain management are implemented. These changes are delivering manufacturing firms the competitive advantage of a highly flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing system to ensure that they meet the high expectations of their customers, who, in today's economy, demand absolutely the best service, price, delivery time and product quality. To make e-manufacturing and supply chain technologies effective, integration is needed between various, often disparate systems. To understand why this is such an issue, one needs to understand what the different systems or system components do, their objectives, their specific focus areas and how they interact with other systems. It is also required to understand how these systems evolved to their current state, as the concepts used during the early development of systems and technology tend to remain in place throughout the life-cycle of the systems/technology. This book explores various standards, concepts and techniques used over the years to model systems and hierarchies in order to understand where they fit into the organization and supply chain. It looks at the specific system components and the ways in which they can be designed and graphically depicted for easy understanding by both information technology (IT) and non-IT personnel. Without a good implementation philosophy, very few systems add any real benefit to an organization, and for this reason the ways in which systems are implemented and installation projects managed are also explored and recommendations are made as to possible methods that have proven successful in the past. The human factor and how that impacts on system success are also addressed, as is the motivation for system investment and subsequent benefit measurement processes. Finally, the vendor/user supply/demand within the e-manufacturing domain is explored and a method is put forward that enables the reduction of vendor bias during the vendor selection process. The objective of this book is to provide the reader with a good understanding regarding the four critical factors (business/physical processes, systems supporting the processes, company personnel and company/personal performance measures) that influence the success of any e-manufacturing implementation, and the synchronization required between these factors. Discover how to implement the flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing execution systems required for competitive and customer-focused manufacturing Build a working knowledge of the latest plant automation, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and supply chain management (SCM) design techniques Gain a fuller understanding of the four critical factors (business and physical processes, systems supporting the processes, company personnel, performance measurement) that influence the success of any e-manufacturing implementation, and how to evaluate and optimize all four factors.

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Physical distribution --- Distribution strategy

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These joint special issues of the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management bring together a number of the papers that were originally presented at the CIRM Conference held in Manchester in September 2003. The theme of the conference was "Neighbourhood retailing: policy, people and partnerships", and it supplemented the event of the previous year which had a similar focus on issues of retail provision at the local level (IJRDM, 31, issues 8 and 9).Previously published in: International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, Volume 32, Number 11, 2004

Retail trade --- Physical distribution of goods. --- Management.

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Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Physical distribution --- Economic geography

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P Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do you know what you have, and when the next replenishments will come? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and that your deliveries are late? Does the volume of your logistics activity vary erratically? /p p b i Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods /i /b by Michel Baudin addresses these issues, both the physical infrastructure of lean logistics and the information flows that compose its nervous system, as well as innovative approaches to supplier relations. Find out how to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories and take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated through lean manufacturing. /p p This book picks up where the author's previous book, b i a href="/productdetails.cfm?SKU=2636" Lean Assembly /a /i /b, left off - it clearly discusses and illustrates how to deliver parts efficiently to assemblers, and the correct process forfinished goods after completion. /p p b i Lean Logistics /i /b completely covers manufacturing logistics, including its interaction with production control. /p

Business logistics. --- Materials management. --- Physical distribution of goods --- Warehouses --- Management. --- Management.