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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Gerhard Plenert has 25+ years of professional experience in IT quality and productivity consulting and in working on manufacturing planning and scheduling methods. He has 13 years of academic experience and has over 150 published articles and nine books: EManager: Value Chain Management in an eCommerce World —2001 Finite Capacity Scheduling (an APICS / Oliver White Series Book)—2000 International Management and Production: Survival Techniques for Corporate America International Operations Management (an MBA textbook)—2004 Making Innovation Happen: Concept Management through Integration Operations Management (A United Nations Training Manual for Developing Country factories)—2005 The Plant Operations Deskbook (an APICS series book) Reinventing Lean; Introducing Lean Management into the Supply Chain —2007 World Class Manager Dr. Plenert has extensive industry experience, including: Private sector Kraft Foods, Smart and Final, Davis Lay, Ritz-Carlton, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Motorola, PPI, Clark Equipment, NCR Corporation, and AT&T Consulting companies—Infosys, Mainstream, AMS, IBM, SCI, SAS Corporate "guru" on supply chain management for AMS and Infosys Government sector California—DCSS, DHS Federal—DSS, US Air Force, Air Guard International—United Nations Texas—OAG New York—City of New York warehousing system Dr. Plenert has extensive academic experience: Ph.D. in mineral economics at the Colorado School of Mines, which is their operations and business management degree (under Gene Woolsey) Eleven years as a full-time faculty member (BYU and CSUC) Currently teaching SCM at the University of San Diego Teaching operations, manufacturing, and supply chain management as far away as Malaysia and England Dr. Plenert has: Worked in senior management Generated up to triple the office productivity with the same staffing Worked as an industry consultant implementing SCM, ERP, and eBusiness systems and designing a next-generation enterprise model Literally "written the book" on leading-edge supply chain management concepts like Finite Capacity Scheduling (FCS), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), and World Class Management Taken a 14+% defect rate down to 2% Brought setup times from 20 minutes to as low as 6 minutes Reduced facility-wide inventories by 40% Dr. Plenert’s ideas and publications have been endorsed by people like Steven Covey and companies like Motorola, AT&T, Black & Decker, and FedEx. Klappentext Explaining how to introduce Lean principles to IT functions, this book provides the tools and understanding to make better decisions, increase efficiencies, and make IT a major force in delivering sustainable improvements to the supply chain. It introduces powerful Lean tools and techniques and supplies a methodology for implementing them to reduce waste in the IT environment. Discussing information production processes, IT systems, and change management through the lens of Lean principles, the book provides step-by-step guidance for implementing Lean principles in an IT supply chain management system. Zusammenfassung After introducing the principles of lean, this work discusses how to implement them in the IT environment. It details the measures that can be used to define a world class IT system and explains how components of an integrated IT system can be structured in accordance with lean. Inhaltsverzeichnis WHY A BOOK ON LEAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY? Why Look at IT? What Is the Problem? IT Background. Are We Doing the Right Things? The Art of Managing Change. BRINGING LEAN INTO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY? How Can Lean ...
