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Supply and Demand is the book that finally does justice to Shepard Fairey's entire body of work, a massive retrospective covering 17 Years of this groundbreaking artist's prodigious output. Through the lens of esteemed writers and critics such as Carlo McCormick, Steven Heller and Roger Gastman, Fairey's work is seen for all its depth and placed in context as art, design, social experiment and "getting over". This massive book pulls no punches and all areas of the enigmatic artist's work, travels and travails are illuminated; from exhibitions, posters, flyers, silkscreens and stickers to high altitude pursuits, citations and police beatings, it's all documented in a museum quality layout and binding. The evidence is in, and it's clear that Shepard Fairey is not one to rest on his laurels, the work must go on. For both long time fans wanting the complete collection and those just curious to know what this OBEY business is all about Supply and Demand is the answer.
Customer Reviews:
A big, handsome book that's a must own for any Shepard Fairey fan........2007-09-18
I had always been a fan of the Rodchenko propaganda art from Russia's early Communist era. There was always something that just appealed to me, I recently re-discovered Shepard Fairey's work and began collecting up the pieces I liked most.
Shepard Fairey's work is dark, but inspiring; revolutionary, but also authoritarian.
This book is a chronicle of Fairey's evolution from sticker/t-shirt bootlegging teen to American Pop-Art icon, even if he might never want to characterize himself that way.
The book is hefty and handsome bound in red cloth with gold gilt colored text and the "Supply and Demand" print image on the cover.
It is full of Fairey's work and the story behind some of the street art he is famous for. There's also a glimpse into the philosophy of street artists, who separate themselves from what most people think of as simply vandals.
Fairey's run-ins with local police reveal much of the anti-establishment inspirations in his work. His anti-corporation campaigns and collaborations with musicians also inspire some of his best works.
A great book for the Shepard Fairey fan featuring much of his work from 1989 to 2005.
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Obey Sheppard Fairey.......2007-09-11
An impressive collection of works through his personal timeline. Beautifully bound, loving attention put to every part of the book. The printing is top-notch, a quality item all the way. There is a wonderful insight to the OBEY project, André the Giant, and many of the poster and print runs he's produced.
It sits proudly on my coffee table, bedside table, in my art studio.
Don't think, just spend the bucks, you'll be glad you did!
Amazing Book.......2007-05-12
I first saw Shepard Fairey's work at an exhibition in Canada in 2006. Despite being fairly ignorant to most of the arts, other than appreciating them on a basic level, something about Shep's raw screen printed images were very appealing to me.
I actually bought this book as a present for someone who was at the exhibition with me, but now I want a copy! From the brief glimpse that I got of it, I loved it. The book is beautifully put together, and seems to chronicle all of Shep's work, from when he first started plastering GIANT stickers everywhere through everything that has come from his central theme of 'Obey'... (and everything in between I guess).
I definitely want to get myself a few pieces of his artwork now, but they seem to get snapped up off of his website very quickly. Popular guy.
Anyway, from what i've seen of this book, I love it, and would recommend it highly to anyone who is into the street/urban art scene... or whatever... All I know is that his art is cool.
living legend.......2007-04-11
Shepard Fairey is a legend in art today. The first thing I noticed when I got this book is that it is GIGANTIC. Full page spreads of his artwork, and plenty of text to keep it interesting. Definitely a must-have and a great addition to any coffee table.
Solid!.......2007-03-09
I bought this as a Valentine's Day gift for my significant other and he LOVES it! The pages are thick and glossy. This is a high quality book, at a great price. I have seen it retail for $70-$80 elsewhere. Grab this while you can! This book catalog's Shep's art on different continents. A must have for the art connisuer in your life! Buy this! You will not be dissapointed!
Book Description
The most authoritative, cutting-edge book for operations management and supply chain management. The book demands rigorous analysis on the part of students. When the use of quantitative tools or formal modeling is indicated, it is only to perform the necessary analysis needed to inform and support a practical business solution.
Customer Reviews:
Tackles complex issues simply, well integrated with course.......2005-04-20
I am an MBA student who has used this course book for our first year operations class. The book tackles difficult topics in a very easy to read way and is extremely well integrated with the associated case book and lecture notes. It provides the right level of detail, enabling students to pick up the tools or delve more deeply into the underlying mathematical constructs. The book does what it says on the label, teaching how to match supply with demand through analyzing process bottlenecks, queuing, lost customers, optimal inventory and yield management and supply chain management issues, such as the bull-whip effect and tackling double marginalization. This is a great introductory book to operations management.
A fun, useful and interesting book to learn operation mgmt .......2005-04-18
I am currently attending an MBA program and we are using this book in one of our operations classes. Highly recommend this book to schools and students who would like to learn how to solve the supply and demand problem!
First, this book is very easy to read. Throughout the book, the authors used different examples to illustrate the various challenges in realistic settings such as the patient waiting and serving time at the interventional radiology unit. The readers can easily extend and relate the examples in real life.
Second, this book is good for the classroom setting as well as the self study setting. The book is organized in a way that each chapter is focused on one operations management problem and shows the systematic ways to solve the problem. For self learner, one can easily select the topics and chapters of his/her interest.
Also, I found the summary at the end of each chapter especially useful for me. To prepare my exams, I use the summary of key notions and equations in each chapter to make up my "cheat sheet".
Again, "Matching Supply with Demand" is a great book and I highly recommend it.
Comprehensive, useful and very well written.......2005-04-04
I found this text book to be extremely helpful in understand and applying operations management. It includes a comprehensive introduction into topics like process flow, estimating and reducing labor costs, batching, the impact of variability, projecting uncertain demand, reactive capacity, risk pooling and several others.
More importantly, the models and examples used are not only practical, but actually interesting. Class discussions were drastically improved due to an increased interest in the cases. I'm sure it took a monumental effort to develop models and cases that make Operations Management interesting to the common student.
excellent.......2005-04-03
Used this book in the core MBA course - excellent summary of class lectures & very helpful supplement.
Book of choice for operations management!.......2005-04-02
A fantastic book for operations management!
The book cleverly combines real-life examples with relevant concepts to introduce core principles in operations managmenet.
It is well-organized, easy to understand,and highly relevant.
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Book Description
Apply Lean Thinking to Dynamic, High-Mix Manufacturing
CREATING MIXED MODEL VALUE STREAMS: Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand
Kevin J. Duggan
How can you apply value stream mapping and lean concepts to the more complex environment created by mixed model (high variety) manufacturing operations? CREATING MIXED MODEL VALUE STREAMS helps to address the challenges of high-mix manufacturing.
Topics Covered Include:
Mapping value streams in real-life manufacturing environments
Developing future states that can respond to daily changes in customer demand
Creating flow through the "pacemaker" process when products have different cycle times
Setting up mixed model heijunka (load leveling) boxes that provide visual schedules at regular intervals
Applying mix logic charts to determine finished-goods strategies and meet seasonal demand
The author uses a step-by-step approach, illustrated through a case study based actual experience, to go beyond the basics of value stream mapping and to show how to create future states in the real manufacturing world of multiple products, varying cycle times, and changing demand. The book includes a CD-ROM featuring useful spreadsheets for sorting products into families and calculating equipment needs.
Comprehensive and down-to-earth, CREATING MIXED MODEL VALUE STREAMS provides the details and techniques for implementing lean in the complex environment that manufacturers face on their own shop floors.
Customer Reviews:
Accessible Exposition of Principles but the Devil's in the Details.......2006-09-24
In this very good book author Kevin Duggan describes an approach to implementing lean manufacturing in challenging environments characterized by a high degree of variety, shared resources, and lumpy demand. All too often in such situations, practitioners conclude that lean principles can be applied incompletely or not at all. Significant missed process improvement opportunities follow from this foundational misunderstanding.
Duggan develops his material using as a case study the hypothetical EMC Supply Company. Value stream mapping is used throughout the book to depict the current scenario and the various improvements to achieve the desired future state.
The author starts at the very beginning, with a discussion of how the proper definition of product families is critical to the creation of flow in high mix plants. He goes on to introduce the concepts of takt time and the pacemaker operation for the process. From there the discussion moves to the balancing of operations, presentation of materials at the point of use, scheduling the work, and dealing with variation in customer demand.
These concepts are applied by the EMC implementation team and are illustrated with an evolving series of value stream maps. As a result the presentation has a "real world" feel to it that should encourage application of the principles.
One significant caveat needs however to be mentioned. Successful implementation is about pressing through countless details in every situation. Duggan draws attention to this in various places writing for example, "Material presentation for a high mix of products will take some creativity and planning. This is an area where we will have to sweat the details".
In fact, in my experience as a lean implementer, the details need to be sweated at every turn. The concepts may be simple, elegant, and often self evident, but putting them into action requires an almost obsessive attention to a myriad of practical intricacies.
For those committed to making this effort the results will be impressive. This book can help make it happen.
lean for Mom and Pop job shops........2005-01-16
Value stream mapping and lean "nuts and bolts" for high variety - low quantity products. This book walks the reader through the process of setting up a high variety flow. I am no lean expert by an stretch of the imagination, but found this book to be extremely helpful in understanding and implementing the technique of flow.
The writing is very clear and concise. Graphics show clearly the subject being discussed.
I suggest reading Learning to See first to understand how to create value stream maps, then apply those learned skills to the floor using Creating Mixed Model Value Streams.
This book should be a required core course in the lean planned program of study. But remember there is no graduation, only life long learning.
Book Description
This book shows leading-edge strategies to:
* Implement a business model that offers an unbeatable combination of responsiveness, cost, and the products that customers want when they want them.
* Achieve substantial cost advantages from eliminating inventory, forecasting, expediting, kitting, setup, and inefficient fire-drill efforts to customize products.
* Efficiently mass customize products for niche markets, countries, regions, industries, and individual customers.
* Substantially simplify supply chains - not just "manage" them - to the point where parts and materials can be pulled into production without forecasts, MRP, purchasing, waiting, or warehousing.
* Supply OEM assemblers or resupply stores rapidly on-demand and avoid carrying expensive inventory. Eliminate out-of-stocks from underproduction and avoid all the problems of overproduction: obsolescence, write-offs, returns, and discounting to sell obsolete merchandise.
* Ship directly to customers or stores and be the first to market with new technologies since distribution "pipelines" do not have to be emptied first.
* Grow sales and profits by expanding sales of standard, customized, derivative, and niche market products, while enhancing sales to existing customers.
Customer Reviews:
Build-to-Order & Mass Customization.......2006-12-29
Mass customization is a goal of almost every manufacturing organization. It is especially difficult to find in one book the essential tools, methods and concepts which will enable an organization to migrate towards a build-to-order or mass customization system. This book provide practical advice regarding product rationalization, design standardization and other tools, methods and concepts which any organization will find immediately useful in expanding its operational flexibility.
Interesting and useful.......2006-03-01
If you are a manager in something related with production, or just interested in Mass Customization, this book is for you. It brings a new aproach to the usual concepts, and may change your point of view about supply chain management or product design.
I really consider it's worth the trouble reading it
Feedback from a mass customization implementor.......2004-06-30
This is a very practical, "must-have" book--in contrast to the earlier "wouldn't-it-be-nice" writings that focus on the mass customization or build-to-order paradigm shift. This excellent book shows how to implement mass customization including the prerequisites, like product line rationalization and standardization, that greatly simplify supply chains and operations and thus make it easier to implement mass customization. The chapter on outsourcing is the most thorough treatment out there -- reading this would save many companies from costly mistakes that inhibit flexibility and thwart mass customization.
Five chapters on supply chain management show how to simplify supply chains to the point where parts and materials can be pulled into production on-demand to support on-demand production. Intricate perspective plant drawings show the flow of parts and information for the mass customization of fabricated or electronic products. The two chapters on total cost and how to quantify it are something all companies need, especially mass customizers. The book concludes with a chapter on implementation and another that presents the business case for mass customization.
The 520 page book is comprehensive, but busy executives can get up to speed quickly by reading the executive summary which summarizes the whole book. It is easy to read with hundreds of side-bars which highlight key points. It makes a fantastic reference book with hundreds of headings and a huge index.
Lots of opinion - but little substance.......2004-06-26
The transition towards Build-to-order is a challenge thay many industries face today. Offering customized products in increasingly demanding and dynamic markets renders current forecast-driven strategies more and more ineffective. The current incentive crisis in the auto industry marks a case in point.
Unfortunately this book falls short of capturing the complexity of this transition, which is not helped by the general lack of emprical evidence. I would have expected a comprehensive discussion of the organisational changes needed to make the transition, but instead the book seems to feature the author's personal opinion based on a few limited cases only. Overall a rather disappointing title.
Practical and easy to understand.......2004-02-24
This is an excellent "how-to" book with practical and detailed insights. The only complaint are the numerous typos that kept on breaking the flow of the reading...about one per page just in the Introductory chapter. However, unlike most strategy books, this book not only tackles "what to do" but more importantly "how to do it". Great book except for the typos.
Book Description
Looming crisis ahead! There's a dangerously growing shortage of skilled workers to fill jobs. Projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast a shortage of skilled 10,033,000 workers by 2010. And this shortage is simply raw numbers; it doesn't fully address the growing skills gap. The numbers also don't take into account the changing attitudes in the workforce.
This crisis is just around the corner. Trends are converging to create an unprecedented dilemma for employers throughout the free world. Because so few corporate leaders are fully aware of their predicament, executives who do prepare for the new operating environment will lead their organizations to a bright future; those who ignore the threat risk dangerous vulnerability.
Employers have been lulled into complacency by the demands of economic, stock market, and competitive issues. Even with all these problems, there's a bigger challenge on the way: Cyclical economic growth will create more jobs, providing abundant opportunities for workers who will make their own choices. Will they choose you?
Many healthy employers today risk extinction. If they don't begin serious repositioning right away. the risk is great. Unfortunately, few, if any, employers have addressed the issues.
This book is a wake-up call. Filled with evidence and advice, for corporate leaders in for-profit, not-for-profit, governmental, and education organizations, this book cites chapter and verse about how to evaluate your vulnerability and take action.
No one is immune. The concepts presented in these pages are vital for board members, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Human Resource Officers, and others responsible for present and future sustainable success. Chances are, they have not evaluated their vulnerability or made viable plans to manage the impact of this crisis on their organizations.
Customer Reviews:
Be Careful When Depending On Statistical Analysis.......2007-02-17
When conducting and reporting on research of this type, especially when dealing with the numbers of available workforce one has to be careful not to forget the number of unemployed only reflects those that are statistically reported as ACTIVELY receiving unemployment benefits. Those unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment benefits before finding work are not counted, which means the real number of unemployed workers is in reality much higher that reported. Therefore the "too few people" may not be as few as one might suspect.
The age of the workforce is another subject worth noting - any executive knows that the "over 50" worker has an extremely valuable amount of experience, and many study and keep up with changing technology and work related issues as much, if not more, than their younger counterparts. Just because a longer period has passed since they graduated college does not mean they are not current with relevent knowledge, and a company that only hires young people because they will work for less money is, in the end, getting exactly what they pay for.
Read Soon, Before Your Crisis Arrives.......2005-05-06
Well Worth Reading! You've likely heard it said that the first step to solving a problem is recognition. During, and since, my reading of "The Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People " I've been speaking with business people who confirm all I've learned from this informative "MUST READ". Fortunately, now I not only recognize the problem, I also see practical steps that employers can take to position themselves to make it through the current and increasingly turbulent, employee shortages. I've found the research based evidence in this book to be presented in a way that not only speaks to CEOs and their direct reports, but also to every person, in any organization, that is planning to remain competitive in local, national or global markets. The real issues that affect employees decisions to either remain with or leave (and in some cases, even flee from) their current employers, are well addressed with an insightful understanding of the needs of all stakeholders involved in any business venture, including the customer. Since reading this book, I find myself looking at businesses differently; I now closely observe employees that serve me as a customer and many times I can see and hear the lack of commitment they have to their current employment. On the occasions that I am treated well as a customer, invariably, I find, through conversation, that this person likes where they work and is not being driven away by any of the 5 reasons most employees seek other employment. The last of which, by the way, is the amount they're paid. I recommend this book to any and everyone that is in business or a part of the workforce, but especially to those organizations that want to avoid being left without quality skilled employees.
Wrong But That's A Good Thing.......2005-02-12
As consultants very often do, this author has relied on statistics and the outside-the-picture view consultants inevitably have, and has come to the wrong conclusion. I think he's wrong about the nature of the impending crisis because he is basing his theory on the assumption that baby boomers are going to retire in large numbers. Most baby boomers I know are never going to retire because they can't afford to. They are supporting kids in college, elderly parents and a lifestyle that they refuse to give up unless they are forced to by becoming one of the increasing number of 55+ people who are being laid off so employers can avoid paying their benefits. These laid off people are not finding jobs at all or if they are lucky enough to find jobs they are jobs that pay far less than the ones they had. Many employers are reducing or cutting off medical benefits for retired people and medical costs are so high people are having to get whatever kind of job then can to pay them.
Many jobs are going overseas and many more will. So a lot of the jobs the author projects will be a crisis to fill, won't because there are going to be far fewer jobs in general. What I see happening is widespread unemployment and the creation of a new underclass of unemployable people. So in part I guess your take on the author's theory depends on your view of how our economy is likely to go and no one, even expert economists, know that. It's all theoretical guesswork.
I think the jobs that may boom are minimum wage jobs. Middle class jobs will remain fewer than the people qualified to fill them as they are now because many baby boomers will not be able to retire like their parents did and because many more of these jobs will be going overseas. The minimum wage job boom will be resolved by making illegal immigrants legal. There is already legislature proposed to do that.
I see a situation in the future where college graduates who can't find the work they trained for as well as baby boomers who can't retire and can't afford medical care will immigrate in increasingly larger numbers in order to find work and benefits, especially to countires that offer the kinds of benefits the USA seems to be determined to eliminate. I think we will see reverse migration, with many disenchanted US citizens going to greener pastures abroad. I see immigration to Canada, New Zealand, Australia, European countries and even Third World countries like India who are taking over yet another American industry, software development. I know people who are applying for jobs in Bangalore and who intend to immigrate to India in order to be employed.
Yet I must say I like seeing how popular this book is and how much it is getting the attention of employers. I think it may do some good by scaring employers into treating their employees like human beings and it may prevent them from continually laying them off when there is the slightest dip in coporate profits. It may cause them to act responsibly toward their employees and to think about the long term effects of the savage behavior they have shown in recent years. Some employers I know are saying they are going to stop pressuring their staff to work long hours and weekends, they are going to leave their benefits alone and they are going to consider their desire to telecommute more seriously. So I applaud this book because it may help the much abused American worker.
Thwarting Impending Crisis.......2005-01-12
Herman and Gioia early on identified a critical problem the workforce is facing: a labor shortage. With downsizing and growth in new sectors comes the inevitable problem of a labor force that is not able to meet the current demands.
Their insightful book offers strategies for companies to protect and grow their greatest asset--- people. Impending Crisis identifies which areas will be greatest hit by the labor shortage as well as viable solutions that will abate the situation.
This thoughtful, well-organized and thorougly researched book is an eye-opener. Smart organizations will pay attention to the issue, provide every executive, manager and supervisor with a copy of this book and use Herman's and Gioia's book to avert an impending crisis.
Disappointing.......2003-11-02
This book is written for the employers, so if you don't own a business or are not in a high level management, your benefit of reading this book will not be substantial.
My dissatisfaction of this book has to do with high level of alarm this book raises based on speculation. The subtitle of this book is "Too many jobs too few people". Due to the demographics (which is impossible to alter in a short period), it is certain we will have too few people in the work force by 2010. The question is will there be too many jobs by 2010? Even the author concedes it is impossible to forecast the economy in the next 5 years, let alone the next 10. Hence, the author's conclusion of pending doom of massive skilled worker shortage by 2010 is speculative.
In fact, many prominent economists will argue that the economy will falter BADLY after 2010 because the consumer spending will drop like a rock due to the aging population (people over 55 spend considerably less). The actual scenario might be "too few jobs too many people".
Finally, the reliability of author's statistics are somewhat questionable (they are from the government after all). For example, according to the author, there are more than 3 million jobs right now than the number of people to fill them. In reality, however, the job market has been the toughest it has been in years, and many people are being laid off without work for over 6 months or more. When statistics conflict with reality, then ALWAYS trust the reality.
Book Description
Operational excellence cannot be achieved by technology alone. An effective Sales and Operations process is essential to successfully implementing any integrated management system such as Enterprise Resources Planning or Supply Chain Management.
While the book Orchestrating Success and other books explain the mechanics of the S&OP process, this definitive text illustrates the effective real world implementation of this powerful process and demonstrates how to improve operational performance, including on-time customer deliveries, inventory control, quality, top-line revenues and bottom-line profits.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Reality Check - People and Process.......2006-05-13
Never before has the subject of S&OP been presented in a novel-like style that highlights the people issues involved in a cross-funtional implementation. The authors did well to present real issues in bringing about what they refer to as "organized common sense" within the context of a hypothetical company with players comprising almost every function in an enterprise. This book provides insight into real challenges and issues in implementing S&OP. If you are looking for a 'How To' book, best you look at other literatures on the subject that deals with the details. This one gives you the 'whys' and 'why nots' of S&OP ... ideal primer for executive management.
Book Description
No other resource can affect patient care as much as nurse staffing. With this indispensable guide, nurse managers will increase the precision around nurse staffing by assessing new designs and implementing new approaches.
Book Description
To outpace the competition, today's firms must be able to understand and implement the latest technology and processes for supply management.
On-Demand Supply Management provides expert advice for procurement, IT, finance, and manufacturing executives to enable faster adoption of the right strategies, processes and tools to achieve sustainable competitive advantage, and includes best practices for their management teams to use.
Supported by real case studies, this book explores both new and existing strategies and technology across the entire supplier interface in spend analysis, market-making, supplier relationship management, sourcing, product life cycle management, should-cost, services procurement, risk management/governance, req-to-check, and on-demand technology and processes. It addresses the cost, effort, and benefits of using IT tools to drive improved supply management results and illustrates how to prioritize, sequence and match tools to strategic needs and budget realities.
The authors also cover the practical issues of effective process and technology implementation such as business case development, master planning, training, and results tracking, and delineate which metrics must be in place to achieve success.
Customer Reviews:
Perfect Merger of Technology Tools with Supply Management.......2007-07-02
This book is a very practical set of guideposts for meshing technology with Supply Management. If only we had this book when implementing our complex supply management processes we could have gone much faster with far fewer serious missteps. Not only does it hit the strategic choices that must be made ahead of time, but it also deals with implementation and provides alerts for common mistakes. The verbal examples are excellent and underscore the groundings in real life experiences of companies struggling with key issues.
A Bookshelf Requirement.......2007-04-28
On-demand Supply Management is a well conceived and written book that details the software technology necessary for todays procurement demands and illustrates them with interesting case studies.
The book also makes an extremely strong case for Procurement profesionals be slotted at a high level in the corporate structure.
Make space in your credenza for this important book.
A Wonderful Book.......2007-04-08
Just finished "Straight to the Botton Line" and "On Demand Supply Management". Wonderful books! "Straight to the Botton Line" helped to crystallize my thinking on Supply Management. "On Demand Supply Management" was a great update and overview of the technology that is radically changing our work. Both provided a good framework for thinking on the topics and excellent insights. Congratulations to the authors on a job very well done!
Book Description
Foundations of Inventory Management presents a complete treatment of inventory theory and models for use in advanced undergraduate, masters, or PhD courses in Operations research, manufacturing management or Operations management. Coverage is organized into an introductory section, followed by a section focused on predictable supply and demand, and the third section covering stochastic inventory models. Many recent developments related to or impacting inventory such as ERP systems, supply chain management, JIT, and ERP systems are integrated within the text.
The text presents inventory as a critical topic for virtually all businesses today and one in which theory and practice are closely linked.
Prequisite coursework for students of this text would include basic optimization theory, stochastic processes, and dynamic programming. The text includes examples as well as rigorous assignment problem sets.
Customer Reviews:
Advance Inventory Modeling.......2007-01-12
This book is hardly on Foundations of Inventory. I would call it instead: "Advance Inventory Modeling". Nevertheless, if you are a graduate IE/OR student, this book is a gold mine regarding inventory modeling. If you are a practitioner looking for an intermediate book on inventory modeling, this book is one book ahead the one you are looking for. The author makes it clear about the type of reader his book was intended. I gave a 5 to this book, although it's showing 4 stars(I can't understand why).
Outstanding Book for mid-level and advanced audience.......2002-10-31
This is perhaps the most comprehensive and complete book on the theory behind the innumerable inventory models. More interestingly, it is an extremely well written for a technical book and the lucid style makes readin interesting. I am using the book as reference for research and this book provides a good b/g and development of different models: both stochastic and deterministic.
However, due to the mathematically moderate to advanced treatment of the subject (calculus, probability and some linear algebra and stochastic processes would really help), the audience for this book is definitely those with some background in math and/or engineering.
This book is not for those looking for a formula to plug in values (although it does give those too), it is for those who are keen on understanding the underlying 'logic' of inventory policies and systems and how they have been developed. Anyone in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Management (with quantitative inclinations) and professionals will find this an extremely good book.
The Bible of inventory management.......2000-03-17
This is a great reference book for Operations Research and Management Science professionals. Covers most of the classical inventory theory models. Highly recommended.
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Tres Logos
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
Stencil Graffiti (Street Graphics / Street Art)
