Supply chains and total product systems : a reader / editors, Ed Rhodes, James P. Warren and Ruth Carter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub. in association with The Open University, 2006.
Description
xviii, 527 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • From supply chains to total product systems / Ed Rhodes
  • Supply chain management : relationships, chains and network / C. M. Harland
  • Globalisation and unequalisation : what can be learned from value chain analysis? / Raphael Kaplinsky
  • Lean production and the Toyota production system - or, the case of the forgotten production concepts / Ian Hampson
  • Lean production in a changing competitive world : a Japanese perspective / Hiroshi Katayama and David Bennett
  • Integrating the supply chain : industrial relations implications in US grocery distribution / John Lund and Christopher Wright
  • Intangibles : the soft side of innovation / Pim den Hertog, Rob Bilderbeek and Sven Maltha
  • The environmental challenge for supply chain management / Q. J. Leiper, P. Riley and S. Uren
  • Buyer-supplier relationships : a case study of a Japanese and western alliance / Shiran Cooray and Janek Ratnatunga
  • Avoid the pitfalls in supplier development / Robert B. Handfield, Daniel R. Krause, Thomas V. Scannell and Robert M. Monczka
  • Japanese automakers, US suppliers and supply chain superiority / Jeffrey K. Liker and Yen-Chun Wu
  • Innovation and competition in UK supermarkets / Mark Harvey
  • The similarity and heterogeneity theses in studying innovation : evidence from the end-of-life vehicle case / Frank den Hond
  • Supply chains and management accounting / A. J. Berry, J. Cullen and W. Seal
  • Approaches to child labour in the supply chain / Diana Winstanley, Joanna Clark and Helena Leeson
  • Manufacturing strategy regained : evidence for the demise of best practice / Alan Pilkington
  • A third-culture plant / J. J. Fucini and S. Fucini
  • Lean production : a study of application in a traditional manufacturing environment / L. Bamber and B. G. Dale
  • Lean production and sustainable competitive advantage / Michael A. Lewis
  • Supporting small businesses in their transition to lean production / M. L. Emiliani
  • Change processes towards lean production : the role of the management accounting system / Par Ahlstrom and Christer Karlsson
  • Target costing as a strategic tool / John K. Shank and Joseph Fisher
  • Supply chain management for recoverable manufacturing systems / V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr., Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, Rajesh Srivastava and W. C. Benton
  • The secrets of industry are in the air or on the jungle drums in the village : traded and untraded knowledge and expertise : interdependencies between SMEs / J. R. Bryson and P. W. Daniels
  • Global production and local jobs : can global enterprise networks be used as levers for local development? / Florence Palpacuer and Aurelio Parisotto
  • The role of an integrator organisation in a virtual supply chain / Frank Cave, Chris West and Alan Matthews
  • Issues on partnering : evidence from subcontracting in aeronautics / Fernand Amesse, Liliana Dragoste, Jean Nollet and Silvia Ponce
  • Implementation of just-in-time methodology in a small company / Surendra M. Gupta and Louis Brennan
  • Learning from others : benchmarking in diverse tourism enterprises / Michele Cano, Siobhan Drummond, Chris Miller and Steven Barclay
  • E-business and E-supply strategy in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) / B. A. Wagner, Ian Fillis and U. Johansson.
ISBN
  • 1405124105 (hbk.)
  • 1405124091 (pbk.)
LCCN
2005025648
International Article Number
  • 9781405124102 (hbk.)
  • 9781405124096 (pbk.)
RCP
C - S
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