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PCI DSSby Steve Wright
IT Governance Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95This newly revised, practical guide, gives you a step by step guide to achieving Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance showing you how to create, design and build a PCI compliance framework. more...
Single Point of Failureby Gary S. Lynch
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 39.95Over the past decade organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, exceptional service, and more recently – increased environmental and social consciousness. The organization’s weapon of choice to address this increasing demand has been the supply chain. However, as the supply chain footprint changed (e.g. outsourcing, off-shoring and customer/vendor empowerment) so did the organization’s exposure to uncertainty. Organizations were taken by surprise since this exposure was unanticipated, complex and beyond their ability to manage. As customers become more demanding and change occurs at an even greater pace,... more...
Controls in Strategic Supplier Relationshipsby Suresh Cuganesan; Michael Briers; Fong Chua Wai
University of NSW Press 1999; US$ 7.25Until recently, competition was considered to be the driving force behind industry performance. However competition is not the only survival mechanism. Co-operation is also a common and important survival strategy, as acknowledged by the majority of industries involved in collaborative relationships between suppliers and customers. more...
Advanced Supply Chain Managementby Charles C. Poirier
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 1999; US$ 30.45Supply chain management - the means by which firms engaged in creating, distributing, and selling products can join forces to establish a supply network with an unbeatable competitive advantage - has emerged as one of the most powerful business-improvement tools around. Companies all over the world are pursuing supply chain as the latest methodology to reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, better utilize assets, and build new revenues. more...
The Contracting Organizationby Simon Domberger
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 90.00The Contracting Organization offers a clear and accessible guide to the theory and practice of contracting. Well supported by numerous case studies and examples, it is ideal for academics, students and practitioners wanting to understand 'make or buy' decisions. Domberger looks at the way in which organizations throughout the world are increasingly contracting out - 'outsourcing' - many activities traditionally done in-house. Deregulation, cost reduction, a focus on core activities, and the growth of the service economy all drive this process and are examined within this enlightening text. more...
Managing the Demand-Supply Chainby William E. Hoover; Eero Eloranta; Holmströ; Jan m; Kati Huttunen
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 95.00A proven,innovative approach to meeting customer demand Combining an intensive focus on customer/marketplace demands with innovative technology tools developed to execute demand chain planning, Managing the Demand-Supply Chain sets forth a powerful new model for fulfilling customer demand in the best possible way. Four of the world's leading demand chain researchers and implementers demonstrate how select high-tech companies, such as Nokia and Dell, have used the demand chain approach to differentiate their value offerings and delight their customers. The authors introduce three exciting new demand chain tools. "Demand breakpoint" identifies the point where value is significantly changed by operations; "value offering point" or VOP is... more...
Managing Buyer-Supplier Relationsby Rajesh Nellore
Routledge 2001; US$ 200.00Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews. more...
Delivering the Goodsby Damon Schechter
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 39.95We often think of great battles as having been won by superior strategy, bravery, or weaponry. Often, however, the greatest battles are decided by a much more mundane factor: logistics. Delivering the Goods looks at business logistics through the history of successful military logistical operations undertaken by leaders from Alexander the Great to General Norman Schwarzkopf, and offers practical guidance on applying proven logistical principles to your business. more...
Adapt or Dieby Claus Heinrich; Bob Betts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 24.95Cut costs and control inventory an adaptive business network This book introduces the adaptive business network, a new method of business interaction that offers the ability to respond swiftly to changing market conditions, increase revenue growth, and lower overall cost. In Adapt or Die , the experts from SAP provide a thought-provoking road map to a new business world in which companies are linked together by uniform business processes and standardized software (uniform business processes and standardized software leaves me the impression of being rigid and inflexible, which is contrary to what were trying to say in the book). An adaptive business network allows companies to more precisely control inventory, quickly add or drop trading... more...
Supply Chains, Markets and Powerby Andrew Cox; Paul Ireland; Chris Lonsdale; Joe Sanderson; Glyn Watson
Routledge 2001; US$ 210.00This book endeavours to take resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management. more...









