The Practical Handbook of Computerization for Distribution Managers
Published on 14. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
317 pages
978-1-4684-7334-6 (ISBN)
Description
Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers," I protested. "You use one, don't you?" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my consulting business with it for two years. But that didn't, I explained, make me an expert. "Think about it," he said. That's typical Coleman; he drops these studiedly casual ideas and just lets them lay there until you pick them up and wind up doing just what he wanted you to do all along. Sure enough, the longer I pondered the notion the more it appealed to me. OK, I wasn't a computer expert (I'm still not). But I was a computer user, in the transportation/distribution field; maybe from that perspective I might have some useful things to say to other transportation/distribution users and would-be users of computers. Thus was born the "Computer Software for Transportation" column. The first one appeared in the April 11, 1983, issue of Traffic World, and it's been a once-a-month schedule ever since. And thus, too, was ultimately born this book.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
317 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-7334-6 (9781468473346)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-7332-2
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Book
11/1990
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
1: The Computer and the Transportation/Distribution Manager.- 1. The Computer as a Management Tool.- 2. Computers as Information Providers.- 3. The Computer and Time Management.- 4. Distribution Modeling Techniques.- 5. Transportation Cost-Finding and the Computer.- 6. Computerization of Transportation Rates-A Viewpoint.- 2: The Computer and the Transportation User.- 7. The Manager and the Technician.- 8. Demands on the Computer User.- 9. You Don't Have to Be a Programmer.- 10. Be Your Own Computer Expert.- 11. Keyboardphobia.- 3: The Computer in the Organizational Structure.- 12. Justifying Computerization to Higher Management.- 13. "Selling" Computerization to Higher Management.- 14. MIS-Management and Mis-Management.- 4: The Start-Up Process.- 15. The Problems of Starting Up.- 5: Computer Security.- 16. The Failings of Security.- 17. Computers and Foreign Travel.- 6: Computer Software in General.- 18. A Guide to Programming "Languages".- 19. Word Processing.- 20. Spreadsheets.- 21. Data-Base Managers.- 22. Free Software-How to Get It and Use It.- 7: Specialized-Applications Software.- 23. Some Rules for Buying Software.- 24. Shopping for Software-A Personal Approach.- 25. The Meaning of "User-Friendliness".- 26. User Manuals and Their Problems.- 27. Aftermarket Support for Software.- 28. Things to Watch Out for With Software.- 8: Software Copying.- 29. About Piracy.- 30. The Importance of Backups.- 9: Some Lessons From Experience.- 31. Using a RAM Disk.- 32. "Bugs".- 33. Monochrome Screens and Their One Color.- 34. Modems and Telephone Lines.- 35. Planning for System Upgrades.- Appendix A: How Computers Work (and Other Details).- Appendix B: "Ports" and "Peripherals".- Appendix C: A Primer on Binary Math.- Appendix D: Hex Codes-AnExplanation.- Appendix E: All About ASCII.- Appendix F: Open and Closed.- Appendix G: Computers and Numbers and Errors.- Appendix H: EDI.