Marc Helmold

Tracy Dathe

Triant G. Flouris

Ayşe Küçük Yılmaz

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks and presents a new framework model for sustainable optimization of risk management. This framework includes supportive tools for risk mapping and strategic decision-making. Managers can apply tailored versions of this framework for the management process of their respective sector. The authors provide case studies in industries such as automotive, aviation, airport, and healthcare.

Cases and Industry Insights

Supply Chain Risk Management

Brian Terry

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China. It elaborates on how supply management should integrate the optimum level, and a combination of quality, cost and delivery. In addition to serving as a guide on how to address cultural barriers, apply supply tools and concepts, it also illustrates the best practices in supply management in China. It draws from a large number of best practices of companies from automotive to railway, to convince other functional departments and higher management that supply management plays the most fundamental role in any organization due to the high number of value adding activities which are coming from suppliers. These practices have been derived by a multi-methodical approach including interviews with supply management leaders from industry and experts in academia, making it as unique and a suitable a guide for practitioners and academics.

Procurement Guide for Supply Experts

Global Sourcing and Supply Management Excellence in China

Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie Unternehmen durch kontinuierliche Verbesserungen (Kaizen) und Lean Management einen nachhaltigen Wettbewerbsvorteil erzielen können. Prozesse und Aktivitäten werden auf Kundenzufriedenheit fokussiert, sodass nur noch kundenrelevante und wertschöpfende Tätigkeiten durchgeführt werden. Ferner veranschaulichen Fallstudien am Ende jedes Kapitel, wie eine Transformation zu einer schlanken Organisation gelingen kann. Neben Grundbegriffen und Definition werden die japanischen Begriffe des schlanken Managements und Kaizen fundiert erklärt und praxisbezogen beschrieben. Außerdem werden alle Bereiche der Wertschöpfungskette hinsichtlich schlanker Methoden dargestellt.

Mit den japanischen Konzepten Wettbewerbsvorteile für das Unternehmen erzielen

Kaizen, Lean Management und Digitalisierung

This book explores total revenue management (TRM), an emerging concept in revenue management that incorporates existing principles and tools of revenue management across all profit streams. It is a professional's guide to using TRM in an optimal and innovative manner to gain competitive advantage. Readers will gain comprehensive insights into the strategies, tools and principles of TRM including existing and emerging revenue streams across the value chain. The author offers a transparent and holistic explanation of pricing strategies, segmentation methods and distribution principles which enable implementation of TRM in organizations.

Case Studies, Best Practices and Industry Insights

Total Revenue Management (TRM)

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain. The lean management framework and tools demonstrate the optimal design and use of methods, tools and principles for companies and organisations. The author describes comprehensively how lean management enables companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term, sustainable competitive advantage. A wealth of best practices, industry examples and case studies are used to reveal the diversity and opportunities of lean management methodologies, methods and principles. Moreover, the book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries like automotive, healthcare, education and services industries.

Fundamentals from Cases and Examples in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Lean Management and Kaizen

Florian Hummel

Jan Pieper

This book describes how international negotiations can be conducted in a structured, professional and effective manner. It also offers recommendations based on examples of successful negotiations from both economically leading countries such as the USA, China and Japan, as well as smaller countries such as the Netherlands, Israel and Morocco. Providing practically relevant experiences from middle and top management positions in different business sectors, the contributors focus on all elements of negotiations, spanning from preparation, execution, strategies and tactics to non-verbal communication and psychological factors. Moreover, the chapters offer detailed introductions to more than 25 countries around the globe, which can be used as a reference guide to doing business in the specific contexts.

A Practical Guide for Managing Transactions and Deals

Successful International Negotiations

Industry Insights, Case Studies and Best Practices

Operations and Supply Management 4.0

The increasing globalization, the battle for talents, and global trends are changing the work patterns in organisations around the globe. Enterprises are working across country and cultural borders alongside complex supply and demand networks. Global incidents such as the financial crisis in 2008 and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have forced global organizations to find innovative ways to continue to connect globally and maintain a competitive advantage. Therefore, innovative enterprises have established global and virtual organisations including members of the value chain on supply and demand side. This book outlines these new work and leadership styles, and agile organisations, which are necessary to work virtually and globally. It provides case studies and experiences from different global organizations in different industries and sectors with a focus on value-adding processes and services.

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