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Inventory Accuracy in action
As a cost analyst for a mid-sized manufacturer, I found this book invaluable for setting up analyses of cycle counts, and it was THE guide for putting together a full physical count process when our parent company demanded it.It's a pleasure to read (yes, this, a book on managing inventory, is a PLEASURE to read!); Piasecki's take on what a physical count is REALLY like is priceless.He really has a complete grasp of what it means to have human beings managing inventory.See his chapter on what machines and humans each do best.

Takes a dfficult subject and make it easy to understand...
Fantastic and essential resource for those wishing to understand and implement inventory accuracy and cycle counting in their business practices.

Easy to understand.Fun, Quick Read
This book has helped me understand warehousing and inventory control.The author approaches the subject in a playful way so as to not make the book overly dry and boring.It's an easy read with some excellent tips.I would especially recommend this book to any plant managers or anyone in inventory control management.This book has become an essential desk reference item for me. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    2. Business & Economics / Purchasing & Buying    3. Business/Economics    4. Inventory control    5. Business    6. Business & Economics    7. Production & Operations Management    8. Purchasing & Buying   

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Well worth the money.
I own the 4th edition. I had to make a comment after amazon recommended the 5th.
Basic Supply Chain
This book has an easy written language and is very good for beginners in the Supply Chain Management Area.

Best book to understand manufacturing process
This is one of the best books I have come across which explains the basics of Manufacturing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Distribution    5. Materials Management    6. Operations Management    7. Production & Operations Management    8. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    9. Purchasing & supply management   

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Decent book, but could be better
I liked the content of the book, but I have three complaints.
Best Practical Reference
This book simply rules the subject area! If you are a practitioner looking for hands-on advice and solid methodology, this is your blueprint. It will jump-start and carry through your Supply Chain/Logistics activities. One of the best Supply Chain books I have encountered. It has a spot on my desk (as opposed to the library). Supply Chain Strategy - Classes and Book
The classes at Georgia Tech were fantastic and I have been reading the book since I have returned home.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business logistics    4. Business/Economics    5. Entrepreneurship    6. Industrial procurement    7. Marketing - General    8. Production & Operations Management    9. Business & Economics / Management    10. Industry & Industrial Studies    11. Purchasing & supply management   

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Re-reading the Classics
The canon of Sales Lit goes back only a couple of decades.In that canon, Neil Rackham's first "Spin Selling" takes a special place as one of the classics or founding texts.So, if you need help preparing a meeting with one of your largest accounts, take the time to re-read this classic text.
Revealing selling process
SPIN Selling illustrates the validaty of the method by showing how real Fortune 500 sales forces have improved by asking the right questions to uncover customer pain.This book will enlighten sales managers and any representatives who manage large sales transactions. Also, executives can benefit from the insights about large sales. I have personally improved my sales numbers greatly after utilizing the ideas in SPIN Selling.This book deserves a place in all-time sales manual classics.

Great book on asking the right questions
A very good and interesting book and very easy to read. For me this book was very convincing for 2 important reasons: 1. SPIN selling is based upon scientific research of many sales calls for many years. 2. The idea of SPIN selling is about the fact that customers decide whether they buy somehting (or advance the sales call) upon their own ideas, their own beliefs, their own assumptions.
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Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Business/Professional    2. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    3. Business & Economics    4. Purchasing & Buying    5. Sales & Selling - General    6. Sales & Selling - Techniques    7. Business strategy    8. Fiction / Literary    9. Business   

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Good information, bad organization
I had to use this book as a text for a purchasing course I took and was frustrated to no end by its lack of organization.The different sections often repeat and even contradict themselves, although this improves substantially when you get to the chapters in the second half of the book on specific categories of items to be purchased.Each chapter is followed by a list of 30-40 "important words and concepts," most of which aren't defined or explained in the chapter but just mentioned in passing.Some of them aren't even mentioned in the chapter, and many of them appear on two or three different lists.The index is so limited as to be next to useless, and there is no glossary.I found myself continuously referring to other books and internet resources to get the information I needed, not because it wasn't in the book, but because I couldn't *find* it. Awesome Book!!
This text is very easy to use.It covers just about every aspect of purchasing in the hospitality industry, and makes it simple to find what you're looking for.The information is very straight-forward, and it's written in plain english for anyone to understand.

Good book!!!
This book is very informative and well-organized.It's very easy to find what you're looking for...and it's got it all when it comes to information that pertains to purchasing for the industry.Very up-to-date...I especially liked the "Technology Applications for Purchasing" chapter. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. General    4. Hospitality industry    5. Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism    6. Purchasing    7. Purchasing & Buying    8. Sociology    9. Business & Economics / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism    10. Food & Drink / Cookery   

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A good solid supply chain basics book
We use this book for supply chain training to new entrants at our firm. It is quite a good supply chain basics book - covering the topic in all its breadth. the coverage is perhaps a slightly less strategic and more technical than our needs - but that is understandable given the background of one of the authors. However, to be fair, it is the best book that we have found on supply chain management to get the people up to speed on the basics.

Price too high
What I got was a second Indian Reprint, it costs around $4 in India, but I had to pay around $35 (shippment not inlcuded in this amount)! What an arbitrage!

Good reference material for practitioners
I found this book to be a great source of reference for managers.It is not really a good teaching source, as I thought it already starts with a fair amount of assumed previous knowledge and jargon.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Customer services    5. Delivery of goods    6. Distribution    7. Engineering - Industrial    8. Entrepreneurship    9. Management    10. Management - General    11. Marketing - General    12. Marketing Management    13. Marketing channels    14. Materials Management    15. Physical distribution of goods    16. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    17. Purchasing & supply management   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Customer Service    5. Delivery of goods    6. Distribution    7. Industrial Management    8. Management    9. Marketing - General    10. Marketing Management    11. Marketing channels    12. Materials Management    13. Physical distribution of goods    14. Business & Economics / Industrial Management    15. Purchasing & supply management   

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Good step-by-step recipe book for lean implementation
This book provides a practical approach for implementing lean manufacturing and what pit-falls should be avoided during the lean journey.Recommended for organizations that are beginning lean manaufacturing implementation.

Good primer
I use this book in my lean manufacturing class. It has good practical examples and a useful method for doing lean using the value stream mapping approach. I highly receommend this book for the first timers. I think someone who has no experience could get started using this book.

An Excellent Tool for all!!
This book has helped in all areas of our business. We are incorporating it into all of our processes!! Wonderful training tool for any organization. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business logistics    4. Business/Economics    5. Entrepreneurship    6. Manufacturing    7. Office Automation    8. Production & Operations Management    9. Production planning    10. Total Quality Management    11. Value analysis (Cost control)    12. Purchasing & supply management   

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Good reference but outdated
My instructor at college who is on the Board of NAPM made this the class text. The book is obsolete from its discussion of technology in purchasing but otherwise is good. It emphasizes qualitative methods and is very soft on quantitative analysis of practical business problems. There is a shortage of case studies but overall this is a good book.Being useful to take the NAPM exam, NAPM has expanded some definitions in the book that are not commonly held in other college courses. For example, my instructor docked me 10 points on a question asking for the 4 elements of a contract,which are different from what commercial law and the UCC dictate. NAPM has redefined some terms so be wary.

Average, not great
At over $100 this is an expensive book. It has some good information, being useful for Modules 1& 2 of the National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM) exams but is quite repetitive in its jargon. Much of what is discussed is generally known by anyone with any significant work experience. More calculations and hard data might be helpful. The book itself is of rugged construction and well made and of convenient size for portable reading.

Thankyou MR. DOBLER
This book is very useful for our purchasing mamagers ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Management - General    5. Operations Research    6. Purchasing & Buying    7. Business & Economics / Operations Research    8. Management & management techniques   

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Best of breed
My first acquaintance with Mr. Long's work was his article "Logistics of Famine" which I found unique for its down-to-earth treatment of a topic rarely recognized as important at the time it was written, delivered in his now-familiar user-friendly style. The man knows and loves his subject, and the care he has taken with this book to clearly explain and illustrate the many aspects of global supply chain management shows that.

Great Textbook !
This book is one of the best textbooks I have ever read. All concepts are very well explained. Unlike other textbooks, "International Logistics" provides so many examples that the material becomes easy to understand. The writer's extensive world traveling is portayed in most of the chapters.I highly recommend it to anybody who is interested in the field.

A Word From The Author
I would like to take this opportunity to thank reviewers for any comments and suggestions, which have been the source of countless improvements to this book and the overall project. Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business logistics    4. Business/Economics    5. Economics - General    6. Freight and freightage    7. Management    8. Management - General    9. Management Science    10. Physical distribution of goods    11. Shipping    12. Business & Economics / Management    13. Business & Economics / Management Science    14. Business & Economics-Economics - General    15. Business & Economics-Management Science    16. Production & quality control management    17. Purchasing & supply management   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Industries - Retailing    4. Purchasing    5. Retail Management    6. Retail trade    7. Business & Economics / Retailing    8. Distributive industries    9. Purchasing & supply management   

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RFP Review
The book is an easy read and provides me with the needed understanding of developing an RFP and template.

Resource and guidelines with a coherent approach
There are literally hundreds of good books on proposal writing, but only a tiny handful on writing RFPs. From among the handful this book stands out for a number of reasons: Good Resource
A great resource for preparation and review of an RFP.A helpful guide for people with and without RFP experience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business Writing    3. Computer Books: General    4. Computer Engineering    5. Computers    6. Programming - Software Development    7. Requests for proposals (Public    8. Requests for proposals (Public contracts)    9. Software Development    10. Software Engineering    11. Computer Programming    12. Computers / Programming / Software Development    13. Management & management techniques    14. Purchasing & supply management   

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Crack the Bullwhip!
I am the Corporate Lean Champion for a global manufacturing company.I had heard of the bullwhip effect but did not thoroughly understand it before reading "the book" as I refer to it when recommending it to my Lean students.Streamlined helped me to put a plan together utilizing rate based planning, Lean variation reduction tools, and pull protocols to Crack the Bullwhip effect and drive it out of our organization!
An Excellent Guide
I actually got the opportunity to study under Srini and can verify his expertise in this field.I picked up more than a few great ideas in this book that I hadn't seen in the many books I have read on the subject.I would recommend this book to students, managers, and specialist at all experience levels.

Excellent textbook for an advanced undergarduate course as well as MBA courses
I have adopted "streamlined" for an advanced topics in management course on lean supply chains. The challenge of finding a book that goes beyond the abstract concepts to more detailed and parctical steps for implementation has been greatly alleviated by "streamlined." Dr. Srinivasan provides the reader and the student in particular with a very well thought out and written text. My students' initial worries about the rigor and difficulty of the subject matter were quickly mitigated after reading the first few chapters.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business logistics    4. Business/Economics    5. Just-in-time systems    6. Management - General    7. Production & Operations Management    8. Purchasing & Buying    9. Reference - General    10. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    11. Purchasing & supply management   

Subjects:  1. Biotechnology    2. Instruments & Supplies    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Reference    6. Emergency services    7. Medical equipment & techniques    8. Purchasing & supply management    9. Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs    10. c 1990 to c 2000   

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Fashion Buying for the 1970's
Diamond and Pintel's 5th Edition continues to focus solely on Retail Buying for the Fashion (softlines) industry.The focus is on high end retailers Macys, Nieman Marcus and The Limited.There is only cursory mentions of other retail types.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Industries - Retailing    5. Purchasing    6. Purchasing & Buying    7. Retail Management    8. Business & Economics / Retailing    9. Purchasing & supply management   

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Just as advertised
This book is a good overview and primer for anyone who is interested in learning what "Supply Chain Management" entails.It starts with a very basic definition and goes into specifics as the chapters progress.

A beginners' guide - but also the practitioners' handbook!
This book gives a wonderful and very thorough overview of the practice of Supply Chain Management.
Great Resource for Beginners
I recently assumed responsibility for supply chain related activities and found this book to be a quick and easy to read introduction to the subject.The author is a practitioner and all his examples are from his industry, I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, but I got a little tired of reading about paper towels and cleaning products. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business logistics    5. Business/Economics    6. Industrial Economics (General)    7. Industrial Management    8. Management - General    9. Management Accounting    10. Business & Economics / Management    11. Purchasing & supply management   

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Success through suppliers
The pursuit of knowledge that gives us an understanding of factors that determine success in the market place has always considered "the firm" as the unit of analysis. This has been the case with microeconomics, game theory, competitive strategy and many such specialized areas of research. Cartels that manipulate supply and prices are perhaps an exception to this rule. If, instead of considering the firm as the unit, we consider a group of firms teaming together to collectively provide value to the customer and succeed as a unique identity as a unit of analysis, the methodology to understand competition would undergo a paradigm shift. This book is precisely about this concept as applicable to the automobile industry. A Masterpiece
Having followed Dyer's other research, I think that this is a theoretically elegant piece of work. He builds further on his pieces in SMJ (with Singh from Wharton) and AMR and illustrates the concepts of relationship-based assets in firm networks. The running exemplar has he uses (Toyota) illustrates his theoretical arguments quite elonquently. The book also highlights the limitations of his concept of collaborative advantage, and his closing chapter illustrates how cultural differences (here with Benz) can keep this strategy from becoming reality. This book is not for folks looking for cut-out recipies. This book is a MUST for researchers and managers who like to think instead of searching for cookbooks! The concluding chapter is a gem because it highlights our gaps in knowledge. This is an excellent book, and having read Dyer's other works, it's high quality comes as very little surprise. Buy, own, read, reread, and profusely highlight your own copy! VERY highly recommended.

Highly Recomended!
Jeffrey Dyer, an accomplished scholar and management teacher, has developed a cogent and sophisticated theory of extended enterprise management based on a wealth of empirical data from the history of Toyota in Japan and from his six-year study of Chrysler Corp. before its merger with Daimler-Benz. Beyond being a detailed and rigorous case study of the automobile manufacturing industry, Dyer's book presents an extremely valuable model for vertical integration. His model can be applied to other complex product industries, though he is honest about the limits of its applicability. This book provides a clear, effective blueprint for achieving value-chain collaboration. We [...] recommend it to consultants, executives in complex product industries and leaders in firms that supply components or materials. If you always suspected you were part of a greater whole, now you can be sure.
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Subjects:  1. Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects)    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business networks    5. Business/Economics    6. Case studies    7. Chrysler Corporation    8. Comparative management    9. Corporate & Business History - Strategies    10. Industrial procurement    11. Industries - General    12. Management    13. Management - General    14. Organization Of Industrial Production    15. Purchasing & Buying    16. Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabush    17. Business & Economics / Corporate History    18. Business | Management    19. Management & management techniques    20. Ownership & organization of enterprises   

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Usefull reference book
It is really usefull as for reference as for review an existing Supply Chain.

Chief Procurement Officer
I bought this book this weekend and started reading it. It was in a nice display of "recommended" reading at the airport book store in Singapore. Having been in both IBM and E2open (Supply Chain software) and now Agere Systems.... no doubt in my mind - the value is clear. Implementation is complex with competing solutions and agendas. Issue is even in the same industry you have too many competing solutions. I noticed CAPS has been pushing the same themes. I liked the way you put it together and got it published. "Very good value":Book review from the "SCM Review"
The title is a bit misleading:the book is about a lot more than redesign.Specifically it looks at the many processes and technologies associated with supply chain management.The subject matters covered run the gamut from the basics of supply chain management to supplier relationships to the fast-changing B2B landscape.The premise of educators Handfield and Nichols is that the more effectively you integrate these activities the more value you create across the supply chain. . . . The bottom line is that the pluses far outweight the minuses.The authors have a knack for explaining a range of supply chain concepts and techniques clearly.Just as important, they reinforce the discussion with real-life examples.Every major topic is introduced by a case study that sets the context for the discussion to follow.One final observation:From a cost-benefit standpoint, Supply Chain Redesign represents a good value in today's market.Very few books these days present this much worthwhile supply chain information for such a relatively low price.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business logistics    4. Business/Economics    5. Industrial Management    6. Industrial marketing    7. Management - General    8. Purchasing & Buying    9. Business & Economics / Quality Control    10. Purchasing & supply management   

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Provides a solid overview of JDE
The book provides a great background for the JDE newcomer.The book has sections that are good for the executive sponsor and transitions into detail good for those actually integrating. While not something that would ensure a successful implementation, the book covers a significant number of key issues and risks that should help companies through the implementation process.

Acceptable introductory textbook
I was frankly expecting more of this book.The author superficially covers the basics of the OneWorld software architecture and the very basic of navigation and usage.Being titled "Implementing", I was expecting to find real life information on hardware sizing, what to do and not to do to successfully implement the software.There was not much more than what you could find in J.D.Edwards documentation and available Knowledge Garden papers. Also, anybody who has worked with this software knows that there is still a lot to do to make it as reliable as marketing hype pretend it to be.One would expect some objectivity from a third party, as good as the software really is.Wise advices like waiting for implementing ESU and service pack, making sure you have the appropriate skills around to do an implementation are slipped away from the content. If you have not worked with OneWorld before, and are planning to learn and implement the software, this is an acceptable introductory textbook.However, if you are looking for more in-depth coverage of real life issues with this software, you will have to look some place else. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Software - General    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Computers - Other Applications    5. Data processing    6. Information Storage & Retrieval    7. Information resources manageme    8. Information resources management    9. Management - General    10. Management information systems    11. Networking - General    12. OneWorld (Computer file)    13. Computer Communications & Networking    14. Computers / Database Management / General    15. Management & management techniques    16. Purchasing & supply management   

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Accessible Exposition of Principles but the Devil's in the Details

lean for Mom and Pop job shops.
Value stream mapping and lean "nuts and bolts" for high variety - low quantity products. This book walks the reader through the process of setting up a high variety flow. I am no lean expert by an stretch of the imagination, but found this book to be extremely helpful in understanding and implementing the technique of flow.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Engineering - Industrial    4. Management - General    5. Manufacturing    6. Office Automation    7. Production & Operations Management    8. Production management    9. Quality Control    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Production & quality control management    12. Purchasing & supply management