The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain
How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
Published on 9. February 2012
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-0-13-283761-3 (ISBN)
Description
Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits.
This book includes expert coverage of both business and technical issues making it ideal for practitioners, decision makers and students. It also covers comprehensive case studies focusing on managing issues ranging from inventory management to supply chain innovation and the lean use of 3PLs, IT, forecasting, business intelligence and carbon tracking.
This book includes expert coverage of both business and technical issues making it ideal for practitioners, decision makers and students. It also covers comprehensive case studies focusing on managing issues ranging from inventory management to supply chain innovation and the lean use of 3PLs, IT, forecasting, business intelligence and carbon tracking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-283761-3 (9780132837613)
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Robert Palevich directs the Business Enterprise System and Technology (BEST) Center at the Richard T. Doermer School of Business at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He formerly served as Global Director of supply chain and e-business for the Do it Best Corporation. Palevich holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial management from Purdue University and an MSBA and MBA from Indiana University.
Content
Foreword xi
Preface xvii
Part I: Applied Savings to the Collaborative Supply Chain
Chapter 1: Lean Sustainable Technologies 1
Chapter 2: Warehouse Management System (WMS) 27
Chapter 3: The Use of Radio Frequency Identity Tags in Industry 49
Chapter 4: Transportation Management System (TMS) 77
Chapter 5: Savings of B2B E-commerce 97
Chapter 6: The Introduction of Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP) 121
Chapter 7: Third-Party Provider 137
Chapter 8: Inventory Control 147
Chapter 9: Promotional Forecast System 159
Chapter 10: An Introduction to Distribution Resource Management 165
Chapter 11: Joint Order Allocation 173
Chapter 12: Variable or Fixed Reorder Periods 179
Chapter 13: Furthering Collaboration with Suppliers (CPFR) 199
Chapter 14: Material Handling Technology, Voice Pick, and Pick to Light Technologies 215
Section I: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management External
Chapter 15: The Visual and Visible Supply Chain 239
Chapter 16: Master Data Alignment and Item Synchronization 245
Section II: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management Internal
Chapter 17: Internal Supply Chain 255
Part II: Technical Sections
Chapter 18: A Technical Explanation of Forecasting Systems 275
Chapter 19: Forecasting Methodology and Gamma Smoothing: A Solution to Better Accuracy to Maintain Lean and Green 305
Chapter 20: The Characteristics Needed in a Forecast Program 345
Chapter 21: The New Sustainable EOQ Formula 353
Chapter 22: Consequences of the Industrial Revolution 369
Chapter 23: Different Organizations' Green Supply Chain Management and LEED 375
Chapter 24: Case Study: Sweetwater Sound 383
Chapter 25: Case Study: Behavioral Health 389
Appendix A: The Summary of the Lean and Green Technologies 407
Index 409
Preface xvii
Part I: Applied Savings to the Collaborative Supply Chain
Chapter 1: Lean Sustainable Technologies 1
Chapter 2: Warehouse Management System (WMS) 27
Chapter 3: The Use of Radio Frequency Identity Tags in Industry 49
Chapter 4: Transportation Management System (TMS) 77
Chapter 5: Savings of B2B E-commerce 97
Chapter 6: The Introduction of Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP) 121
Chapter 7: Third-Party Provider 137
Chapter 8: Inventory Control 147
Chapter 9: Promotional Forecast System 159
Chapter 10: An Introduction to Distribution Resource Management 165
Chapter 11: Joint Order Allocation 173
Chapter 12: Variable or Fixed Reorder Periods 179
Chapter 13: Furthering Collaboration with Suppliers (CPFR) 199
Chapter 14: Material Handling Technology, Voice Pick, and Pick to Light Technologies 215
Section I: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management External
Chapter 15: The Visual and Visible Supply Chain 239
Chapter 16: Master Data Alignment and Item Synchronization 245
Section II: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management Internal
Chapter 17: Internal Supply Chain 255
Part II: Technical Sections
Chapter 18: A Technical Explanation of Forecasting Systems 275
Chapter 19: Forecasting Methodology and Gamma Smoothing: A Solution to Better Accuracy to Maintain Lean and Green 305
Chapter 20: The Characteristics Needed in a Forecast Program 345
Chapter 21: The New Sustainable EOQ Formula 353
Chapter 22: Consequences of the Industrial Revolution 369
Chapter 23: Different Organizations' Green Supply Chain Management and LEED 375
Chapter 24: Case Study: Sweetwater Sound 383
Chapter 25: Case Study: Behavioral Health 389
Appendix A: The Summary of the Lean and Green Technologies 407
Index 409