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RFID is a method of remotely storing and receiving data using devices called RFID tags. RFID tags can be small adhesive stickers containing antennas that receive and respond to transmissions from RFID transmitters. RFID tags are used to identify and track everything from Exxon EZ pass to dogs to beer kegs to library books. For security professionals needing to get up and running fast with the topic of RFID, this How to Cheat approach to the topic is the perfect "just what you need to know" book! * For most business organizations, adopting RFID is a matter of when * The RFID services market is expected to reach $4 billion by 2008.

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Most books on Supply Chain Management simply focus on how to move materials and key resources throughout an industrial enterprise. Reinventing Lean shows how SCM can be made Lean, leading to much more reliable, cost-effective and competitive Supply Chain Management (SCM). In this book, the reader will find a collection of management tools that will help to implement Lean principles, and to understand the components of an integrated Supply Chain Management system. Moreover, the book will show that to make Lean SCM effective, both the functional management tools as well as an enterprise-wide cultural readiness are needed in order to lay the groundwork for a World Class Lean Supply Chain. Reinventing Lean will carefully lead engineers and manufacturing managers on how to adopt a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy. The book will lay out various proven approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices, by focusing on the ways in which SCM relates to materials, money, and information movement within the manufacturing environment. And because Reinventing Lean recognizes that a successful Lean SCM system cannot be achieved unless an organization supports team integration and the willingness to adapt to change, it provides not only the technical tools but also methods for changing company cultural factors that can make it all come together for a successful operation. * Industrial engineers and plant managers, with strong backgrounds in SCM, will learn how lean management principles can be utilized to make their organizations leaner, more efficient, and more competitive * Readers will find out how to lay out various approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices * Readers can learn how to customize a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy which will give a distinct advantage over the competition.

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Physical distribution --- Polemology --- Intern transport. --- Polemologie.

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This e-book contains five of the best papers from the 18th annual NOFOMA conference, hosted by the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo in 2006. The theme of the conference was 'Logistics in the new valley'. Two articles, on relief logistics and inventory control models respectively, received awards for best papers. Two further articles, a multiple case study of vendor managed inventory and a participant observation study, were considered the best papers written by research students. The final piece investigates the efficiency of supply to an offshore petroleum installation.

Physical distribution of goods --- Business logistics. --- Management.