Process Analysis and Improvement describes and illustrates how to use popular software tools, including Excel, Arena, Visio, and VBA to create an integrated business process analysis and redesign capability. This is the first book on the market that demonstrates integrated applications of these software packages for modeling business applications. The text is designed to fulfill the needs of students who are interested in analytical approaches to process modeling and improvement.

Process Analysis and Improvement with Student CD and Microsoft Visio Student Edition CD, 1/e

Business & Money

Kumar, Sameer

Chandra, Charu

Seppanen, Marvin

Processes & Infrastructure

McGraw/Hill/Irwin

Parts are commonly used in making, repairing or maintaining consumer or industry products. Parts could be purchased or manufactured by a business enterprise. Advance models were applied to parts operations for manufacturers of transport refrigeration equipment and high-pressure positive displacement plunger pumps. Both companies have an established network of dealers for sales and service of equipment and parts. A number of areas in the parts business operation were researched which show the potential for improved operational efficiency and customer service that increase market share when advanced process models were used to integrate the supply chain. This book covers the subject of parts management through: (1) an introduction to areas of parts business operation with potential for substantial improvements and overview of various models proposed in Chapter 1; (2) quantitative effects on customer service level of inventory miscount and lead time variability and methods to reduce these factors in Chapter 2; (3) optimal division of items based on economics within a two-level distribution system; which items should be serviced through dealers and which items directly by the company to end-customers in Chapters; (4) optimal ordering procedures for a multi-item common supplier system with either constant or random demand rates for various items in Chapter 4; Vll viii Parts Management Models and Applications (5) attribute based classification scheme to promote standardization of design and manufacturing techniques for expediting product development and control design proliferation in Chapters 5 and 6; (6) knowledge base management to enhance manufacturing operations effectiveness in Chapter 7;

Parts Management Models and Applications: A Supply Chain System Integration Perspective

Management & Leadership

Springer

Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain: Context: A Prescription Based on Empirical Research

The aim of this book is to provide a better understanding with as to how to coordinate and improve decisions about product life cycle, process and supply chain design to improve new product development. The conclusions are based upon original research of supply chain management and new product development in numerous industries.

Krob, William A.

[(Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain : Context -a Prescription Based on Empirical Research)] [By (author) Sameer Kumar ] published on (March, 2005)

Springer, Verlag

The challenge of managing a business enterprise today is to ensure that it can remain efficient and competitive in a dynamic marketplace characterized by high competition, unstable demands, heterogeneous market segments, and short product life cycles. Increasing the pace of new product introduction enables dealing with shorter product lives. To sustain competitiveness, a firm has to be innovative as well as quick to respond to the changing customer needs in order to provide better and faster products to market than competitors. New product development (NPD) is considered as a process of learning. Successful NPD projects typically rely on knowledge and experience of multi-function teams. In addition to corporate strategy and organization learning, the external factors such as, market and competitive conditions also play a big role in driving business strategies. The results from the empirical research study reported shows that companies implementing innovation strategy are more competitive in the long run while those that follow customer-responsive strategy are more likely to have higher return on investment within a shorter time. In order to achieve both sustainable competencies and also meet customer needs in the changing market environment today, a company should adapt to the benefits of both strategies.

New Product Development: An Empirical Approach to Study of the Effects of Innovation Strategy, Organization Learning and Market Conditions

Phrommathed, Promma

The challenge of managing a business enterprise today is to ensure that it can remain efficient and competitive in a dynamic marketplace characterized by high competition, unstable demands, heterogeneous market segments, and short product life cycles. Increasing the pace of new product introduction enables dealing with shorter product lives. To sustain competitiveness, a firm has to be innovative as well as quick to respond to the changing customer needs in order to provide better and faster products to market than competitors. New product development (NPD) is considered as a process of learning. Successful NPD projects typically rely on knowledge and experience of multi-function teams. In addition to corporate strategy and organization learning, the external factors such as, market and competitive conditions also play a big role in driving business strategies. The results from the empirical research study reported shows that companies implementing innovation strategy are more competitive in the long run while those that follow customer-responsive strategy are more likely to have higher return on investment within a shorter time. In order to achieve both sustainable competencies and also meet customer needs in the changing market environment today, a company should adapt to the benefits of both strategies.

Turning the tide on revenue leakage across info-centric organizations. All types of companies leak revenue. Even those with up-to-date systems, strong controls, admirable internal audit programs, and impressive management teams have discovered that they leak five percent or more of total revenues. In the current economic environment, with megastrategy profit opportunities perhaps a thing of the past, a mental write-off of revenue leakage is a luxury companies can no longer afford. 
But revenue leaks need not be a cost of doing business. Revenue maximization strategies are the solution. 
Over the past five years, PricewaterhouseCoopers experts have advised telecom, broadband, healthcare, utilities, cable, e-business and new media companies on the core strategies of revenue maximization. The most farseeing of these companies have instituted the high-return programs and the cultural change necessary to profitably capture revenues in all areas of their revenue cycle. 
The authors have helped many of the world's leading telecom companies find more than $1 billion in leaked revenues. In this book they also tap the knowledge of their clients and PricewaterhouseCoopers colleagues in other info-centric industries to: 
--Make the business case for revenue maximization and give a broad overview of the strategies necessary for success. --Discuss, in detail, with examples of success and failure, the core strategies for revenue maximization. --Look at the steps to capture the maximum possible revenue and increase profitability. --Provide practical guides on how to acquire revenue maximization tools and programs, how to design your own tools, and how, in general, to get started. 
For executives in high-transaction industries who are finding it difficult to increase their profitability, no new megastrategy has ridden to the rescue. Maybe no new megastrategy will appear in the near term. Maybe executives will have to rely instead on a portfolio of smart strategies, not megastrategies. For many industries, revenue maximization is one of the best smart strategies. The authors hope, that by the end of this book, you will understand and embrace the steps needed to begin a successful revenue maximization strategy.

To the Max: Revenue Maximization: Capturing the Opportunities Within

Browning, Randy

pricewaterhousecoopers

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Process Analysis and Improvement with Student CD and Microsoft Visio Student Edition CD, 1/e

Parts Management Models and Applications: A Supply Chain System Integration Perspective

Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain: Context: A Prescription Based on Empirical Research

[(Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain : Context -a Prescription Based on Empirical Research)] [By (author) Sameer Kumar ] published on (March, 2005)

New Product Development: An Empirical Approach to Study of the Effects of Innovation Strategy, Organization Learning and Market Conditions

Managing Product Life Cycle in a Supply Chain: Context: A Prescription Based on Empirical Research

New Product Development: An Empirical Approach to Study of the Effects of Innovation Strategy, Organization Learning and Market Conditions

To the Max: Revenue Maximization: Capturing the Opportunities Within