Lean Six Sigma Logistics: Strategic Development to Operational Success
de Thomas J Goldsby et Robert Martichenko

Présentation de l'éditeur
Reducing costs, rushing to market and accelerating lead times are vital for survival in today’s competitive environment. Inventory is no longer considered an asset, and strategies need to be in place to operate with minimal amounts of it. Lean Six Sigma Logistics illustrates how to integrate Lean, Six Sigma and Logistics into a cohesive process that will help eliminate unnecessary inventories through disciplined efforts to understand and reduce variation, while increasing speed and flow in the supply chain.

This "how to" book provides the vehicle to solidify strategic position, win over customers, and achieve increased profit margins. It is the one book that executives, practitioners, consultants and academics will all want on their bookshelf. A must read for the CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, VP, Director, or Logistics Manager.

Key Features:
-Provides a method to develop strategies as well as tactical steps for successful operational implementation of Lean Six Sigma Logistics
-Addresses top management concerns while providing necessary tools and guidance for the logistics practitioner
-Features the Logistics Bridge Model to serve as your compass and map for leveraging value, eliminating waste, and enhancing your abilities to view the supply chain with a critical eye and to develop a vision for continuous improvement
-Presents definitive answers for improving operations, making customers happy, and reducing logistics costs and variability

Dr. Thomas Goldsby is a leading researcher, author, and speaker on the subjects of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Kentucky.

Robert Martichenko is President of LeanCor LLC, headquartered in Florence, Kentucky. LeanCor is a full-service logistics and supply chain company focused on working with organizations embracing Lean and Six Sigma in the supply chain.

Contemporary Logistics: International Version
de Jr., Paul R. Murphy et Donald Wood

Présentation de l'éditeur
For undergraduate and graduate Logistics courses.

Bring modern logistics theory to life.

By exploring modern logistics from a managerial perspective, this leading text brings theory to life with its timely, practical, and thorough coverage of the fundamentals of logistics in today’s dynamic global landscape.

The tenth edition reflects the latest technological and economic changes that have recently occurred in the business world.

Dynamics in Logistics
de Hans-Jarg Kreowski, Bernd Scholz-Reiter et Klaus-Dieter Thoben

Présentation de l'éditeur
The volume comprises the proceedings of the second International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics LDIC 2009. The scope of the conference was concerned with the identification, analysis, and description of the dynamics of logistic processes and networks.

The spectrum reached from the planning and modelling of processes over innovative methods like autonomous control and knowledge management to the new technologies provided by radio frequency identification, mobile communication, and networking. The growing dynamic confronts the area of logistics with completely new challenges: It must become possible to rapidly and flexibly adapt logistic processes and networks to continuously changing conditions. LDIC 2009 provided a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter.

The volume consist of the x (up to 3) invited papers and of y (about 45 to 50) contributed papers devided into various subjects including routing in dynamic logistic networks, RFID in logistics and manufacturing networks, supply chain control policies, sustainable collaboration, knowledge management and service models in logistics, container logistics, autonomous control in logistics, and logistic process modelling.

Hans-Jörg Kreowski is professor for Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Bremen and member of the Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics. His main research topics are graph transformation, formal modelling and their applications in computer science and logistics. He (co)-authored and (co)-edited 15 books and published more than 120 scientific papers.

Bernd Scholz-Reiter Faculty of Production Engineering, Department of Planning and Control of Production Systems, BIBA (Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science) Scientific Career Bernd Scholz-Reiter, born in 1957, studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) until 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he implemented a computer-aided system for the price negotiation of multiple products firms for the multi-national company SKF. Following this he was a research assistant at the Department of Systems Analysis and Electronic Data Processing at the Technical University of Berlin. His specialty was in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) and computer-aided methods and tools for the planning of information and communication structures in the field of production and logistics. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1990 for his thesis „Concept of a Computer aided Tool for the Analysis and Modelling of Integrated Information Systems in Production Firms", followed by a post-doctorate fellow research position at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, U.S.A., in the department of Manufacturing Research until 1991. Subsequent to this, he worked at the Technical University of Berlin as an associate professor. From 1994 to 2000 he served as chair holder of the new chair of Industrial Information Systems at the newly established Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany. Simultaneously, he was head of the Fraunhofer Application Center for Logistics Systems Planning and Information Systems at Cottbus, founded by him in 1998. Since November 2000 he is a full professor and chair holder of the new chair of Planning and Control of Production Systems (PSPS) at the University of Bremen and since 2002 he also serves as director of the Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science (BIBA) where he is head of directors since 2004. His BIBA department Intelligent Production and Logistics Systems (IPS) is also a research centre for the German Logistics Association (BVL).

Scholz-Reiter is initiator and vice-speaker of the CRC 637 Autonomous Control of Logistic Processes, speaker of the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics as well as speaker of the International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics. Scholz-Reiter is an ordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an ordinary member of acatech, the Council for Engineering Sciences at the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities; BESIDE OTHER NATIONAL MEMBERSHIIPS he is a member of CIRP, the International Institution for Production Engineering Research, a fellow of the European Academy of Industrial Management (AIM) and an Advisory Board member of the Schlesinger Laboratory at TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Logistics Association (BVL). He is vice president of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

Scholz-Reiter is editor of the professional journals Industrie Management and PPS Management and member of the editorial board of the International Journal Production Planning & Control. He is author and co-author of more than 250 scientific publications.