Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Value Through Flexible Operations

by David Simchi-Levi

Book Overview

In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the price of oil and other commodities can disrupt a company's entire supply chain and threaten its ability to compete. In Operations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014742
• ISBN13: 9780262014748
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"