Free Download David Simchi-Levi, "Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations "
English | ISBN: 0262525151 | 2013 | 252 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
An expert offers a set of rules that will help managers achieve dramatic improvements in operations performance.
In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the price of oil and other commodities can disrupt a company’s entire supply chain and threaten its ability to compete. In Operations Rules, David Simchi-Levi identifies the crucial element in a company’s success: the link between the value it provides its customers and its operations strategies. And he offers a set of scientifically and empirically based rules that management can follow to achieve a quantum leap in operations performance.
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