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Focusing on the impact of the Internet on tactical and strategic elements of supply chain management (SCM), this book details how enterprises can leverage the merger of SCM and e-business to exploit the competitive advantage from supply chain partnerships.

Presenting a roadmap to leadership for supply chain professionals, this book details the qualities considered benchmarks for measuring leadership success. It provides a historical look at leadership in supply chain management complemented by interviews with leaders in industry and government across three continents.

Any supply chain improvement project, even if well conceived, has a chance of failing, unless the accompanying information technology enables the design. This book offers you the tools to not only design new supply chains, but to design them effectively. It provides insights into the special requirements for improving supply chains.

The horizontal integration of supply chains both internally and externally is critical and the result of applying the concepts of Business Process Organization across a network of companies. This book demonstrates how companies can build successful supply chain networks.

Offering a definition and understanding of what MES is and how it works, this title shows how to tie the many variables of manufacturing into a better production process using an integrated computer system. It addresses issues regarding computers and communication equipment, as well as data entry methods and equipment.

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.