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While many students, parents, educators, and organizations who hire their graduates hold US universities in high regard, the cost of higher education has risen much faster than the rate of inflation……続きを見る

Apparel is one of the oldest and largest export industries in the world. It is also one of the most global industries because most nations produce for the international textile and apparel market. T……続きを見る

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has generated a wealth of practical knowledge in the course of its development projects. This operations knowledge---if optimally captured, shared, and reused---will……続きを見る

Project Management: Theory and Practice, Third Edition gives students a broad and real flavor of project management. Bringing project management to life, it avoids being too sterilely academic and t……続きを見る

Originally published in 1999, this volume integrates several streams of research on the antecedents of innovation to test a model of individual innovative behavior in a high technology product devel……続きを見る

In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere. In this context, Germany’s regi……続きを見る

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices ……続きを見る

This book describes approaches, opinions, and concepts for new and emerging solutions and technologies that could be successfully applied in the configuration, optimization and management of supply ……続きを見る

Dieses Buch stellt die Anwendung wirkungsvoller Qualitätsmethoden in der Lieferantenkette von der Produktentwicklung bis zur Fertigung vor. Die Ansätze basieren auf den Ergebnissen einer empirischen……続きを見る

This book analyses the importance of consumer behaviour in sustainable fashion and consumption. Consumer behaviour plays a major role in sustainability, and when it comes to textile products, a numb……続きを見る

This book provides some regional aspects considered by manufacturing firms in their decisions to gain competitiveness and have effects on the performance of their supply chains (SC). Some of the mai……続きを見る

Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an Unternehmen, die Nachholbedarf in ihrer Digitalisierungsstrategie oder einen hohen Aufwand der ungewollten Improvisation und des „Firefighting“ haben. Leitthema……続きを見る

In diesem essential werden die Grundlagen zur administrativen Planung von Routenzugsystemen zusammengefasst. Routenzugsysteme sind zum Standard der innerbetrieblichen Materialversorgung geworden. Ge……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management. It also explores total quality management, covering its human, technological and analytical imperatives. It also examines……続きを見る

Dieses Buch beinhaltet einen grundlegend neuen Denkansatz zum Unternehmenswachstum. Es beschreibt Grundprinzipien, Strategien, Methoden und Instrumente zur qualitativen Weiterentwicklung von Unterne……続きを見る

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools. Shifting the trade-o……続きを見る

Mit diesem Buch erhält der Leser einen umfassenden Einblick in alle für die Planung, Durchführung und Kontrolle des Betriebs öffentlicher Personennahverkehrssysteme (ÖPNV) relevanten Aufgaben. Eine ……続きを見る

This book is devoted to the customization design of product/service system (PSS), making use of a systematic design process and a number of methods, especially Industrial Customer Activity Cycle Ana……続きを見る

This book uses case studies to discuss consumer awareness of and education on sustainable fashion. It highlights how some textile brands have started using consumer awareness tags to educate consume……続きを見る

This book gathers together invited presentations from the 12th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS2017) held in Beijing, China, August 20–23, 2017. The focus of the ICLS2017 wa……続きを見る

This book shares key insights into system performance and management analytics, demonstrating how the field of analytics is currently changing and how it is used to monitor companies’ efforts to dri……続きを見る

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-siz……続きを見る

This book discusses the connection between fast fashion brands and customer-centric sustainability. It highlights what consumers can do with fast fashion and the important aspects that need to be ad……続きを見る

This is a brief summary to describe how Quality Resolutions Systems, a Michigan-based business consultancy firm plans to take Ford Motor Company's weaknesses, and turn them into profitable strengths. 続きを見る

This publication is designed in such a way as to give knowledge and guidance to Quality Managers and Internal Auditors. The methodologies applied are well proven and will deliver performance improve……続きを見る

Proper cost accounting and financial management are essential elements of any successful construction job, and therefore make up essential skills for construction project managers and project engine……続きを見る

As usage of the NEC family of contracts continues to grow worldwide, so does the importance of understanding its clauses and nuances to everyone working in the built environment. Understanding the N……続きを見る

As technology evolves, it can be difficult to maintain a competitive edge. The management of intangible resources like competence, relationships, brands, processes and systems becomes increasingly i……続きを見る

Historically, the term quality was used to measure performance in the context of products, processes and systems. With rapid growth in data and its usage, data quality is becoming quite important. I……続きを見る

Quintessential reference to business operations filled with key terms, equations, graphs, processes, models, and more. A perfect tool for any student of business, working professional, or business o……続きを見る