Product Description: Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery of target costing, value engineering, and supplier development, but how supply chain management -- the discipline of acquiring and moving material -- has become a manufacturing company's hottest competitive weapon...read more

Product Description: A business book that's entertaining, offbeat, plus need-to-know. Jack O'Connor, Publisher, Purchasing magazine. "a memorably story filled with powerful and proven approaches for companies to leverage their spend" . . . David P. Steiner, CEO, Waste Management ...read more

Product Description: "Breakthrough Partnering should be required reading for anyone involved in supply management or training." - Paul Brault, Corporate Director of Supplier/Customer Training Motorola University "Breakthrough Partnering is loaded with contemporary examples of supplier partnerships and it contrasts them with the 'old time religion' of bidding, leverage, and voluminous planning...read more

Product Description: Great companies save money every day, now every organization can realise "The Incredible Payback"! The authors of the acclaimed "The Purchasing Machine" deliver an eye-opening look at the power of supply management, presenting success stories from best-of-the-best procurement organizations like Honda, Delphi, John Deere, and others...read more

Product Description: Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery of target costing, value engineering, and supplier development, but how supply chain management -- the discipline of acquiring and moving material -- has become a manufacturing company's hottest competitive weapon...read more

Product Description: Most manufacturing companies with batch-and-queue "push" production systems have been blindsided by today's consumer who expects quality products and services delivered on demand and customized to individual taste. In The Perfect Engine, manufacturing experts Anand Sharma and Patricia E...read more

Product Description: How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts Patricia Moody and Richard Morley in this astonishing vision of the year 2020...read more

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Presents a blueprint of the tools and techniques used by the Honda Motor Company to gain supply-based excellence (view table of contents)

Product Description: In Strategic Manufacturing, management consultant Patricia E. Moody took an in-depth look at practices that enabled companies to improve their manufacturing operations, increase their bottom line, and effectively compete in the global arena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss new competitive challenges, decision making, productivity, manufacturing trends, strategic planning, and the role of the manager