Vanishing boundaries : how integrating manufacturing and services creates customer value
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Vanishing boundaries : how integrating manufacturing and services creates customer value
(Series on resource management)
CRC Press, c2014
2nd ed
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New methods of competing in the global marketplace
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Title of 1st ed. from CIP data on t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Businesses need to become more consumer-centric, efficient, and quality conscious. Yet global competition and supply chain complexity are increasing so rapidly that managers must reach across the manufacturing and service boundary to gather more universally applicable ideas. Vanishing Boundaries: How Integrating Manufacturing and Services Creates Customer Value, Second Edition addresses the unprecedented array of new conditions that today's business managers must face.
The book is a revision of the authors' previous book, New Methods of Competing in the Global Marketplace, Critical Success Factors from Service and Manufacturing. The concepts underpinning the first edition continue to be relevant today and, in this revised edition, are complemented with coverage of additional emerging issues in today's business environment. The basic theme of the book is captured in its title and illustrated with the addition of case studies of some of today's most prominent companies.
See What's New in the Second Edition:
The emerging relationship between risk management and supply management
Risk management, and its corollary, crisis management
Trends in outsourcing, such as near-sourcing and in-sourcing
Health care improvement programs to reduce cost and improve quality
Sustainability - alternative energy infrastructure and the triple bottom line
Integration of supply chain services to align goods, information and funds flows
Advances in information technology, i.e., cloud computing, videoconferencing
Present, and potential, role of social media in attracting customers, servicing customers and building network trading partners.
This second edition creates greater awareness of the benefits that businesses can gain by sharing techniques and methodologies across the manufacturing/services boundary. The book emphasizes that successful change management requires a holistic focus on three levels of an organization - its technology, infrastructure, and organizational culture. It includes solutions and implementation strategies for risk and crisis management, sourcing, healthcare, alternative energy infrastructure, integration of supply chain services, advances in IT, social media, and customer relationship building.
Table of Contents
The Vanishing Manufacturing/Services Boundary. Critical Success Factors and Strategic Planning. The ITO Model. The Role of Management Programs in Continuous Improvement. How Manufacturing Techniques Are Being Adapted to Service Operations. How Service Techniques Are Being Extended to Manufacturing. The Role of Technology in Continuous Improvement. The Role of Infrastructure in Continuous Improvement. Understanding Organizational Culture - the Elusive Key to Change. Integrated Supply Chains, from Dream to Reality. The Role of Services to Complement the Supply Chain. The Future of Improvement Programs.
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