Advanced Topics in Just-In-Time Management - Hardcover

Olson, John; Schniederjans, Marc J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567201555 ISBN 13: 9781567201550

Publisher: Praeger, 1999

Synopsis

Just-in-time management strategies continue to evolve and remain crucial for world-class business operations. Schniederjans and Olson focus on the latest, most important advances in JIT strategies and explain how to use a broad range of information about them, pulled from the latest significant JIT literature. Covering quantitative methods and conceptual ideas often reported in obscure sources and thus frequently inaccessible even to scholars, their book makes its points with easily grasped examples to help readers put the ideas here immediately to use. An extensive, up-to-date bibliography of recent JIT books is presented in a way that will help users quickly identify titles most important for their own special needs. Production and other operations executives will find the book an essential resource in their ongoing effort to keep themselves up-to-date and stay there.

Part I provides an introduction to the book's premise and basic JIT principles. Part II focuses on JIT quantitative methods, and Part III examines a series of popular JIT topics covering the most current conceptual issues. Along the way, Schniederjans and Olson explain where JIT inventory management principles can be applied, how simulation methodology can be used to improve JIT systems, and how the Kanban systems are being changed innovatively and integrated more successfully into business operations. They also show how supply chains can be improved to utilize JIT principles better, how JIT is changing production scheduling, and how managers can utilize their human resources more effectively in a JIT environment.

About this title

Book Description:

Latest developments in the world-class strategy for business operations, JIT, presented in an easily accessed format for production and other operations executives.

About the Author:

MARC J. SCHNIEDERJANS is Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Author or coauthor of 10 books on various topics in management and more than 70 articles, he also has served as a consultant and trainer to a wide variety of business and government agencies, and as a technical expert for government organizations. His most recent Quorum Book, published in 1998, is Operations Management in a Global Context.

JOHN R. OLSON is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Previously, he was a consultant and trainer for manufacturing and service organizations throughout the upper Midwest. He also has served as a project director, process engineer, and quality auditor for the State of Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567201555
• ISBN 13: 9781567201550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216