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Focus Your Supply Chain Technology Investments to Reduce Risk and Maximize Competitiveness
Lean, Six Sigma, and related approaches offer immense potential for improving competitiveness, cost, and customer experience—if you can overcome the challenges of planning and implementation. The well-targeted use of technology can dramatically reduce your risks and accelerate your progress. Until now, however, many guidebooks and consultants have treated Lean primarily as a “pen and pencil” technique. Lean and Technology is the first complete guide to integrating Lean thinking with proven, affordable, and emerging technologies. You’ll learn how companies are linking strategy, the value chain, and IT—and how they are executing on their plans to achieve real competitive advantage.
Step by step, Myerson shows how to use the proven six-step SCOR Model to organize the integration of technology with all key supply chain and operations processes. You’ll discover how to:
Part I: Introduction to Lean Supply Chain Management and Technology
Chapter 1 – Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2 – Supply Chain, Technology and their growing importance to business and society
Chapter 3 – Lean concepts and their applications in the Supply Chain
Chapter 4 – Applications of Software and Hardware Sourcing Process and Supply Chain and Logistics Management Technology
Part II: Plan
Chapter 5 – Supply Chain Network Optimization
Chapter 6 – Demand Forecasting Systems
Chapter 7 – Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and other Advanced Planning Systems (APS)
Chapter 8 – Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Part III: Source
Chapter 9 – Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
Chapter 10 – Procurement (and e-procurement) Systems
Part IV: Make
Chapter 11– Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
Chapter 12 – Manufacturing Executions Systems (MES)
Chapter 13 – Short Term Scheduling
Part V: Deliver
Chapter 14 – Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP)
Chapter 15 – Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Chapter 16 – Order Fulfillment Systems
Part VI: Return
Chapter 17 – Reverse Logistics Systems
Part VII: Enable
Chapter 18 – Measurements, Metrics and Analytics
Part VIII: Where do we go from here?
Chapter 19 – Collaborative Supply Chain Systems
Chapter 20 – Emerging Technologies and their Potential Impact on the Lean Supply Chain in the coming years