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Book Summary of Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed: Integrating the System from End to End
A sequel to the bestselling "Manufacturing at Warp Speed," this text discusses new developments in managing the supply chain that shifts the focus of all stages of the supply chain to emerging concerns regarding time to market. It reviews the connections that exist along the chain, not only as agile but reliable, and provides a strong rationale for implementing S-DBR and Planned Load. From this background, it addresses the new demands taken on when a firm makes the capacity to handle rush orders a specific priority. The text discusses availability, and inventory management managing inventory in the context of speeding up delivery.
In 2000, Schragenheim and Dettmer published the ground-breaking Manufacturing at Warp Speed. At the time, the cutting-edge ideas expressed were the original work of the authors and not well-known beyond the booka (TM)s audience. In the years that followed, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, father of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), adopted their ideas, added his own valuable insights, and popularized them worldwide.
Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed serves as the sequel that refines and updates the former approach to production management with new ideas that complement earlier tactics. The authorsa (TM) prime motivation for writing this book was to integrate the TOC method for managing the distribution of finished goods with the acquisition of raw materials and the manufacturing process. The result is the first book to describe, in detail, the application of the TOC approach to assured availability in distribution, for both original equipment m isbn
9781420073355
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Pages : 220
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