Operational Excellence - A Concise Guide to Basic Concepts and Their Application

As industrial companies are placing a higher focus on operations, this book comes at the right time with a compilation of basic concepts of Operational Excellence and their application. 
Operational excellence allows companies to recover from reductions in gross margins and low profitability, which largely occur due to a rise in agile competition and the short life span of new technologies. This book helps managers and consulting academicians as a ready reference for cross-industry implementation of operational excellence.

List of contents

Introduction.- Assurance of Supply (AOS).- Cost of Goods (COGs).- Decision Support Systems (DSS).- Drum, Buffer, Rope and Days of Inventory (DOI) Control.- Emails (the LEAN Version).- Empowerment.- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).-Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).- Gross Margin (GM).- Hiring Practices for Operations.- Human Resources (HR).- Innovation in the Operations.- Interfaces and Their Improvement in Operations.- Just in Time (JIT).- Kan Ban.- Key Performances Indicators (KPI).- LEAN Operations.- Leadership in the Operations.- Meetings and LEAN Decision Making.- Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) and Departmental Expense Control.- Manufacturing Excellence in Daily Life.- New Product Introduction (NPI).- One on One Meeting.- Personal Development.- People Motivation, Productivity and Satisfaction.- Quality.- Return on Investment (ROI) Calculations and CAPEX Decisions.- Safety.- Supply Chain and Win-Win Relations with the Suppliers.- Services and Customer Assurance.- Team Work and its Development.- Theory of Constraint (TOC).- Variability - Managing the Variability in Operations.- Voice of the Employee.- Yield, Improvement and Sustaining High Yield.- Where, When and How We Can Apply the Operational Excellence Concise Guide Methods?.

Product details

• Authors: Gilad Issar, Liat Ramati Navon
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2018
• EAN: 9783319793146
• ISBN: 978-3-31-979314-6
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 194 p. 27 illus.
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Operations Research, B, Marketing und Vertrieb, Sales and Distribution, Planning, Organization, Business and Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, sales management, Sales/Distribution, Sales & marketing, Management decision making, Management science, Operational research, Decision Making