Supply chain engineering and logistics handbook : inventory and production control

"This handbook begins with the history of Supply Chain (SC) Engineering, it goes on to explain how the SC is connected today, and rounds out with future trends. The overall merit of the book is that it introduces a framework similar to sundial that allows an organization to determine where thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Jones, Erick C. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781315159096
1315159090
9781351658539
1351658530
9781351658546
1351658549
9781351658522
1351658522
9781138066519
1138066516
Physical Description1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the fourth industrial revolution
  • Global supply chain engineering definitions
  • Evaluating the impact of sustainability and pipeline quality on the global crude oil supply chain
  • Forecasting in global supply chain engineering
  • Inventory control
  • ERP systems
  • Logistics in global supply chain engineering
  • Analyzing variability
  • How total quality management (TQM) and lean six sigma drove need for supply chain integration
  • A relationship between six sigma and Malcom Bridge Quality Award
  • Evaluating increasing hospital closure rates in the U.S.
  • Total quality management
  • The internet of things (IoT) technologies and the tracking of supply chain assets
  • Evaluating the impacts of the internet of things to reduce runway incursions
  • A methodology to evaluate obsolete inventory in health care
  • Manufacturing feasibility evaluation of RFID chips embedded in artificial organs
  • Embedding integrated RFID sensors into fiber reinforced plastics during the manufacturing process
  • Secure document RFID applications
  • Evaluating the impact of sleep disruptions in women through automated analysis
  • Evaluating the impact of sustainability incentives to optimize the Indonesian to the United States crude oil supply chain
  • Using six sigma to evaluate automatic identification technologies to optimize broken case warehousing operations
  • Railroad car tracking by an RFID system to organize traffic flow
  • Logistics ecosystems.