Leading Manufacturing Excellence: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing

Partial table of contents: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. From Lowell to Sunnyvale: Manufacturing in the United States (R. Everdell). THE STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING PLANNING PROCESS. Strategic Analysis for Global Manufacturing (L. Sprague). Sales and Operations Planning: Top Management's Handle on the Business (T. Wallace). NEW STRATEGIES. People Development and the Transformation to Teams (B. Oliver). Human Resource Management Strategy (R. McInturff). Production Planning Simplicity (M. Smith). Profitable Purchasing (M. Harding). MANAGEMENT FOCUS. The Seven Deadly Sins of Manufacturing (R. Schmenner). Next-Generation Manufacturing and the Extended Enterprise (P. Moody). DYNAMICS OF CHANGE. Managers as Change Agents (D. Ciampa). About the Authors. Index.