Practical E-manufacturing and supply chain management

New technologies are revolutionising the way manufacturing and supply chain management are implemented. These changes are delivering manufacturing firms the competitive advantage of a highly flexible and responsive supply chain and manufacturing system to ensure that they meet the high expectations...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Greeff, Gerhard
Other Authors Ghoshal, Ranjan
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Newnes, 2004.
SeriesPractical professional books from Elsevier.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780750662727
0750662727
9780080473857
0080473857
1281016322
9781281016324
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 461 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction to e-manufacturing systems
  • 2 History of business automation
  • 3 System hierarchies and components
  • 4 Business process design models and concepts used in operations systems
  • 5 Business process and system modeling tools and packages
  • 6 Enterprise planning and supply-chain interaction
  • 7 Product and plant knowledge management
  • 8 Production capability management
  • 9 Production scheduling, management and control
  • 10 Production data collection and performance analysis
  • 11 Project motivation and benefit quantification
  • 12 System integration models and concepts
  • 13 Product and vendor evaluation methodology
  • 14 Software project management
  • 15 Change management
  • 16 Conclusion.